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17th Mar 2010 - 11:56am
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northwest-cpl wrote:

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Nice to see some serious highlights here..........not. icon_sad.gif

The highlight seems quite serious. If you continually criticise other people's spelling and writing abilities it's always wise to be careful how you yourself spell - first impressions are important, but then so are subsequent impressions.


When have I seriously run down peoples spelling on here? I may of made a joke to FB every now and again but do not continually criticise at all.

You care to show me where I have slagged off peoples spelling on here?
 

 

17th Mar 2010 - 12:10pm
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I have not seen you criticise anyone's spelling on this forum Kent.

The point I was highlighting was my (as yet unanswered) point from page 1 of this debate -

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But Kent, you have said yourself that your own standard of spelling, punctuation, etc is not as good as it should be - and I'm sure that there are many other people our age, who had a so called good "old-fashioned" education who would say the same about themselves - so obviously there were problems with the old system.


Your misspelling of "gobbledygook" made the point more succinctly than I did.
 

 

17th Mar 2010 - 12:12pm
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kentswingers777 wrote:

northwest-cpl wrote:

kentswingers777 wrote:

Nice to see some serious highlights here..........not. icon_sad.gif

The highlight seems quite serious. If you continually criticise other people's spelling and writing abilities it's always wise to be careful how you yourself spell - first impressions are important, but then so are subsequent impressions.


When have I seriously run down peoples spelling on here? I may of made a joke to FB every now and again but do not continually criticise at all.

You care to show me where I have slagged off peoples spelling on here?

I didn't say you criticised the spelling of people who post on here but you do criticise the writing of people who send you cvs in particular, and much of today's youth in general. One example has already been pointed out.

kentswingers777 wrote:

You really should see some of the CV's we get here, hand written in gobblygook language.

Not the greatest of first impressions I would have thought?


If you are going to rant about spelling and writing then it's best to get it right yourself. I think that was probably what Cherry was saying and that was a valid point to make in the context of this thread.
 

 

17th Mar 2010 - 12:19pm
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I'm not having a go, Kent - I have friends who are brilliant in many ways, but whose spelling is appalling - and I agree, it looks terrible on CVs, and other formal letters.

It was when you said:

"As an employer we have taken on youngsters, and whilst they never seemed to have a attitude problem, I certainly would not have let any of them write a letter on the companys behalf"

Just seemed a bit rich, that's all.
 

 

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Yes I am rich. icon_wink.gif
 
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