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I hate people who are really pompous...

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nickelbabeuntiladvent · 01/12/2012 10:33

...and in their pomposity, get basic grammar wrong.

I could copy+paste this entire email for your amusement, but I won't, because I'm not quite that bitchy today.

"For our PCC meeting part of the evening I included the only apologies that had been received either by myself or , as chair of that meeting. "

No, pompous secretary, yourself didn't receive the apologies, you received apologies.

It doesn't help my plight that I objected to this man being secretary in the first place because of his misplaced arrogance!

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chocoluvva · 01/12/2012 16:15

Aww - he's trying very hard!

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nickelbabeuntiladvent · 01/12/2012 16:29

toooo hard.
he used to be a teacher, too, and he's obsessed with pedantry!

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FromEsme · 01/12/2012 16:33

I fucking hate the incorrect use of the reflexive pronoun and I am generally not a pedant.

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mummybare · 01/12/2012 19:05

Yes, it really pisses myself off too.

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nickelbabeuntiladvent · 02/12/2012 09:39
Grin
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