One that endlessly bugs me - and isn't really on topic - is the use of "Check if...." OK, so if there _isn't_ any UPS tracking information, that means you won't be doing any checking? Or if I'm not using the most recent version of the Windows Update software, you won't be doing any checking? They cannot bestir themselves to think about what they are writing, and simply say, "Checking to find out if...." Well, I dunno. Opinions vary, and this is just mine. I could be wrong.
Rob Lingelbach wrote:
On Aug 23, 2008, at 10:19 PM, Steve VanSlyck wrote:
It is definitely not "webism," which repeats, over and over again, the worst mistakes of common English grammar and punctuation.
hear, hear. though i find it hard to use upper case in net communication (call it the unix distortion) i'm abhorred even at the mistakes now common on the New York Times, and (horror) The New Yorker. Editors seem either to be idiots or unemployed.
Rob
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