The lack of an Oxford comma made a very, very, very large (very negative) change to my profession nearly 20 years ago and it has never been corrected. I know that doesn't happen often, but it still blows my mind.
None. I’m old.
How about something going down in the anals of history? That came from the highest position you can have in a school district. I still chuckle over that one.What truly makes me sad, though, is to read emails and memos from corporate executives. Long gone are the days when a secretary would catch any mistakes before something was sent. Nowadays, executives will send out things themselves. I cringe when I see the obvious grammar and spelling mistakes. These are people representing their company.
Sounds like an interesting story. Do tell.
CMS put a cap on therapy services for people with Medicare, meaning you can only use a certain dollar amount each year for therapy services before needing to pay out of pocket. The way it was written was, "such and such amount.... for OT, PT and SLP. Written that way purely because it was alphabetical order. This has since been interpreted as OT having their own individualized cap, then PT and SLP being combined to have their cap together. There have soooo many patients that need all the services, particularly that need PT and SLP, unfortunately impacted by this. They can't get as much of each service as they need compared to if each discipline had their own cap.
Sorry but who would read it that way? It is clearly a list of individual services. I would have fought this to the death.
Your guess is as good as mine. It has been a huge topic of contention for us (I'm a PT) for years.
Have you heard of Hyperbole and a Half? They created an Alot drawing. You should check it out.
I teach 3rd grade. I tell my students "if you live to be 285 years old, there are only 2 times in your life that you will ever use an apostrophe...when you make a noun possessive, or when you form a contraction....that's it. NO PLURALS!
I salute the noble work you’re doing to fight apostrophe abuse. This scourge must be stopped.
I remember reading about this overtime lawsuit a while ago, too.
It’s true. In the same sense, even absolute dullards can have an excellent grasp of grammar.
Pssst! I’m not going to tell BamaGuy44 that you’re missing two periods in the first paragraph.I always try to make allowances for that when I'm silently judging peopleTo look at my IM messages and texts, you'd think I can't spell at all. Because I'm a terrible and careless typist lol
But some things, like the dreaded apostrophe abuse, are definitely conscious choices.
One of his best! The Foil video is another worth watching.
Maybe. Extremely rare in my experience.
I sometimes abuse the quotation marks in my own writings due to having seen the Austin Powers movies too many times. I type emails and stuff and in my mind I am picturing Dr. Evil saying it.
