I am still trying to understand how highly educated people (i.e. Master's level & above) would write a formal/professional/business letter with so many typos and grammatical errors. Smh
I know I have been repeating this for the past months, but I just cannot tolerate the carelessness + mediocrity combined in some official/business letters I read. See, I can overlook one or two typos; but, all over the letter??! Nahhhh. Worst is if it's an anglophone writing in English. (I'll forgive the francophones for tiny grammar mistakes. Yet still, in a formal letter you have to be rigorous with yourself. It takes me twice more time to write a professional letter in French because I have to double/triple check my mistakes.)
To be frank though, when I read such (formal/professional/business) letters with so many mistakes, I am turned off by whatever proposition the person/entity would make. It's hard to take the person/entity seriously.
I mean, what is so difficult with :
1. Capitalizing the first letter of your sentence, after a full stop?
2. Re-reading your message at least twice, to make sure you corrected your typos, before sending a professional letter ?
3. Adding punctuation marks to ease interpretation of your sentences.
Do what you want on fb, twitter, Instagram, etc... but once u take your keyboard to send an official/business/professional/first-encounter email : stop, think, write, edit, proofread, re-read, then send.
Please, enlighten yourself on this fb page: https://www.facebook.com/IJudgeGrammar
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Hahahaha I enjoyed reading this post! I just discovered your blog so I'm excited! As a blogger it's always nice to add one more Camer blogger to my blog reading list! Anyway back to your topic...yes you would be suprised at how many grammatical errors and typos educated people make. I believe if you have achieved a BA or BSc. You should be able to write a business letter with minimal typos. Again people will always make one or two mistakes here and there but as you said there shouldn't be many and do not use slang words used on Social media!! That's a NO NO!
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