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In my trade as a Blacksmith your CV didn't mean Jack s*** what mattered was what you could bash out under a power hammer or on the anvil that counted, not silly bits of paper. I did go to college for seven years and have the "bit's of paper", but most employers wanted to see what I could do for real and not remember it out of a book.
 
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swee'pea99

Squire
My bugbears are sentences that are:
  1. too long;
  2. state more than one fact;
  3. have inappropriate use of capitals and/or;
  4. do not use reported speech correctly.
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How about ones that don't understand how bullet points work? :rolleyes:
 

Spinney

Bimbleur extraordinaire
Location
Back up north
Totally agree - in any case the optional comma might have been better served earlier in the sentence. I don't think it makes sense where suggested.

The problem as I see it is that when you have a sentence that needs such clarification via grammar, it would have been better to rewrite and re-express the whole thing, since, by creating long sentences that go on and on and on, with clause upon clause, you create monster constructs of comprehension whose sense has long been forgotten, reading like a limping effort by a panelist from that improvisation radio show "Just a minute", which you feel has started out in hope, gathered pace down some random crevice of involuntary exposition and emerged out the other end whence we are ignorant now of it's original clothing (ripped to shreds as if dragged backwards through a hedge with particularly spiny brambles), yet nevertheless, and not withstanding the specifics of what just happened, the point might have been conveyed to the attentive audience in brief, succinct, parsimonious, individual sentences without redress to elaboration, obfuscation or listing words of ever increasing length from a thesaurus. If you get my drift.
You are Sir Humphrey Appleby, AICMFP
 

rich p

ridiculous old lush
Location
Brighton
In my trade as a Blacksmith your CV didn't mean Jack s*** what mattered was what you could bash out under a power hammer or on the anvil that counted, not silly bits of paper. I did go to collage for seven years and have the "bit's of paper", but most employers wanted to see what I could do for real and not remember it out of a book.
Did you stick the 'bits of paper' into a collage Numby?
 
In my trade as a Blacksmith your CV didn't mean Jack s*** what mattered was what you could bash out under a power hammer or on the anvil that counted, not silly bits of paper. I did go to collage for seven years and have the "bit's of paper", but most employers wanted to see what I could do for real and not remember it out of a book.

You f ingot the commer van in the wrong place! If I was you, I would have changed your name from Jack if you were having trouble getting a job, Numbnuts...names like that just don't stick. As for what you can bash out at work - the dmni boggles! :ohmy: :smile:
 
What's the matter with some people?

My wife is advertising a job for a Senior Typist and specified very high levels of layout skills and accurate grammar for technical documents. She also specified that the documents will be sent straight from the successful applicant to the end-user (clients) as the workload volume is high and that there is no second stage proof-read in her office.

However, CV has three typo's and the covering letter a further two plus two instances of double full stops.

Other than that the CV looks terrific.

Recruiting....painful!
Bugger. I'd be applying if I was in Cumbria :hello:
 
Totally agree - in any case the optional comma might have been better served earlier in the sentence. I don't think it makes sense where suggested.

The problem as I see it is that when you have a sentence that needs such clarification via grammar, it would have been better to rewrite and re-express the whole thing, since, by creating long sentences that go on and on and on, with clause upon clause, you create monster constructs of comprehension whose sense has long been forgotten, reading like a limping effort by a panelist from that improvisation radio show "Just a minute", which you feel has started out in hope, gathered pace down some random crevice of involuntary exposition and emerged out the other end whence we are ignorant now of it's original clothing (ripped to shreds as if dragged backwards through a hedge with particularly spiny brambles), yet nevertheless, and not withstanding the specifics of what just happened, the point might have been conveyed to the attentive audience in brief, succinct, parsimonious, individual sentences without redress to elaboration, obfuscation or listing words of ever increasing length from a thesaurus. If you get my drift.
:bravo:
Nice one. No repetition, hesitation or deviation.
:smile:
 

buggi

Bird Saviour
Location
Solihull
typo' is short for typographical errors so has an apostrophe, plural or otherwise. If you are going to be pedantic it's best to get it right

Precision the the most important whosername after all
I'm glad you cleared that up. My mate says I'm wrong to type it as "Photo's", as it should be "photos", but I disagree because the apostrophe is in place of the missing letters in photographs. You've just confirmed I am, indeed, correct.
 

Profpointy

Legendary Member
Nobber. A word I would like to use. With you lot what are nobbers.

Needs some commas , or summatt, there as doesn't quite make sense.

Not quite as bad as the missed capital letter :
" I helped my Uncle jack off his horse"

Silly piss-taking aside, the OP does have a point, in that it's embarrassing to make typo's (yah boo!) in a CV, it's really an own-goal if the job is producing documents.

Back to the fun, there's a really good one on an M25 bridge which says, in 3' high letters, "Give peas a chance", which I guess isn't intended to be a plea for vegatarianism,
 
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