jmcquown wrote:
> Omelet wrote:
>> In article >,
>> "JoeSpareBedroom" > wrote:
>>
>>>> Get used to modern slang. It's far more fun!
>>> No. It's lame. There may be children watching. Children learn by
>>> example. Your writing contains things children should not see. They
>>> need to be employable in the future. If you cannot read, write and
>>> speak well, you are as valuable to an employer as a melted ice cream
>>> cone on the sidewalk.
>> Good. Let's see you go after "Krispy Kream" donuts and "Kwik wash"
>> laundromats.
>>
>> Must suck to be so anal.
>>
>> I used to be too. I'm a far happier person now that I got over it. ;-)
>
> Sorry, but I have to agree with him on this one. I've mentioned before the
> text message mentality and kiddy email mentality should NOT carry over to
> the workplace. No one I know in the business world wants to get an email
> that says "kewl". (Not that any business email should say "cool" unless
> they are referring to the air conditioning system.) I'd prefer anyone who
> claims to be a business professional to know how to spell things and that
> doesn't include "How R U?" and "Kewl". We aren't teaching the next
> generation anything in the way of speaking (whatever their native language
> is) by encouraging this crappy text-messaging lingo to go forward into their
> professional lives. Try writing "kewl" into a legal brief. Or a mortgage
> contract. Or your tax return. Sorry, it won't fly.
>
> Jill
>
>

Nice try trying to sound so...employable! Get off the sauce and you
might succeed.