|  Chris "dezoLis" Buchanan
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| Handle: | dezoLis | | Real Name: | Chris Buchanan | | Country: | United States | | Gender: | Male | | Birthday: | February 20, 1986 | | Signed Up: | 2004-03-06 4:43 PM EST | | Last Posted: | 2007-10-12 7:29 PM EDT |
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You're going to look like an idiot if you can't get your grammar above the elementary school level.
You're moving your car, right?
If it's a place they're headed on their trip, use "there." Got it? Good.
It is too "a big deal." You don't have to know how to spell everything in the dictionary, and you don't have to have the serial-semicolon rule embroidered on a pillow, but if you have reached voting age in the United States, you need to know the basics of English usage, because if you don't, you look like an idiot. No, don't. Don't start with that "grammar Nazi" business. Don't get all "nobody gives a shit about that crap" and "it's so anal, who cares" and "well, you know what I mean." I give a shit about that crap. I know it's anal, but I care, and so do a lot of other people -- people who respect you, but might respect you less when you dash off an email to the effect of "I'll meet you their"; people in a position to give you a job, who won't because you didn't proofread your cover letter and they don't appreciate your addressing them as "Deer Ms. So-And-So." Seriously. You need to know basic rules of English usage. You do not have to use them all the time in every single grocery list you write, and not knowing them all does not in and of itself make you dumb or uneducated; you don't have to spend an hour pouring over the dictionary just to send me an email. But you have to try to learn the language, especially in business correspondence, and you have to make an effort to use the language correctly. It's your native tongue, and it's worth doing.
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