When did "Medireview" = Medieval???

[Templeton580]

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[Marius Delphus]

Yes, standard math often looks vapid and unprofessional to MBAs. One must always be sure to dumb down everything you say to a business major or they'll fire you for using the word "pedagogical".

What the heck? Please tell me I took that the wrong way. For one thing, I'm unsure why you'd feel the need to castigate MBAs and business majors like that (I'm not one, but that's beside the point). For another, it certainly sounds like you've decided to, in one stroke, condescend to everyone in this thread who writes with what you'd deem less erudition than you. Whither all this vitriol?

To the extent I'm familiar with standard math, I'm of the understanding it includes the "curly equals" sign, not the tilde, as the sign for approximation; I further suspect that using the tilde is merely, as you've described, a convenient shortcut in that context, with the understanding that it's really supposed to be the approximation sign. (I could easily be mistaken about this, as I never have written in contexts which call for mathematical equations.)

However, despite the point you make, I really think it's inappropriate to sprinkle mathematical symbols in contexts which do not call for mathematical equations, because it's more likely to lead the usual audience for the documents I work on to think the writer is either copping an attitude or being lazy. And being perceived either way doesn't help us sell services and forge contracts.

Lastly, I certainly apologize if you thought I was calling you either vapid or unprofessional or both. I wasn't.

Remember, dictionaries are lists of how people use words, not how words should be used. You speak the way you do only due to the "stupidity" of earlier generations and unless you're French, there is no official body that states how words or grammar have to be used.

Please tell me I took that the wrong way. All I was trying to say was that, in written contexts, observing a prescriptive grammar is helpful in promoting comprehension and displaying competence, two things I hold to be very important in my work product. From that point of view, I'm much less interested in how people speak than I am in how my co-workers and I write. I notice your posts here mostly conform to standard written American English. Why do you write that way? And if I had typed "Sooth, why writeth thou in suchwise?", wouldn't that have changed what you think about my writing?

 

[Staffan]

When a restaurant advertises "FOOD" SERVED HERE, many readers will conclude that they're serving some hellish Cthulhu mockery of food

This reminds me of a rule they used to have at Sweden's biggest RPG con: "It is forbidden to play Cthulhu with spaghetti in the cafeteria."

 

[Hairfoot]

After three proud years, some wowser convinced the local pide house to take down the sign advertising "donor kebabs". 'Tis a nobler fate than being used for transplants.

D&D terminology caused me some confusion when I was younger. As it turned out, clerical office work doesn't involve cure light wounds. And a warmace won't fit in a desk draw.

What level do you have to be before you can immolate people with the turn unsatisfied client ability?

 

[jgbrowning]

It started when I published that amazing book, A Magical Medireview Society: Western Europe and took off after Monte Cook gave it his only perfect 10 review.





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