Business Pet Peeve

[bjarvis]

Lest there be any confusion on this point, let me be clear: the next time anyone sends me business correspondence which uses "sup" as a greeting, "u" as a pronoun and ends questions about location with "at," I will publish that text for public ridicule.

I have some tolerance for abbreviations in text messages between mobile devices, but none whatsoever for full-length emails, online documentation or written correspondence. We're supposed to be educated professionals in real-world business, not pre-teens playing "The Sims" online with your bffs.

Thank you.

I will now finish my day by practicing yelling at kids to get off my lawn and complaining about how young whippersnappers drive too fast.

Comments

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

I'm not especially defensive about not ending a sentence with a preposition in general. I can understand using sentence structure such as "The things I put up with!" or such. The truly grammar-religious may claim you're going to hell, but I wouldn't give it a second thought.

That said, there's something unforgivably ghetto-trash --in a bad way-- about asking "Where you at?" instead of "Where are you?" or "Where is the paper at?" instead of "Where is the paper?" It grates on my ears like fingernails on a chalkboard. It's like they don't understand even understand what the words are that they're speaking.

[trawnapanda.livejournal.com]

the real problem with where you at? is not a terminal "at", the problem is the absence of a verb.