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Last week, I was discussing with my colleagues how inappropriate for our HR to circulate emails with grammar mistakes.

Example:
1. How will it LOOKS like?
Shouldn't it be, "How will it look like?"
Auxilary verb rule -> it will turn plural.

http://www.perfectyourenglish.com/grammar/modal-auxiliaries.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_modal_auxiliary_verb

2. A memo was written in Malay, but it ended with "Warmest Regards".
3. Very extremely use of flowery words.

4. And now, I realised that I wrote an email incorrectly stating the time as 12pm.
oopssiee.. because we have been doing it all the time and didn't realise that it's WRONG until I'm being corrected. :P (thanks char boh)

http://www.xoup.net/peeves/highnoon.php

Comments

Anonymous said…
u r welcome - haha :)
8/11/08 9:53 PM
meiyi said…
hehe. Muax.
9/11/08 12:42 AM
Roti Janai said…
Is like that la, my HQ punya HR Department lagi kengchao, 1 simple sentence oso they can expand it to few paragraphs.
11/11/08 10:21 PM
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