MICROSOFT WORD FAILevildougApril 27 2010, 19:22:27 UTC
Randomly replacing ″your″ with ″you're″ adds positive affirmation to any business letter which boosts the self eseem of the recipient.
Rather than: Move your Hyundai from the executive lot. Try: Move you're Hyundai from the executive lot.
The implied ″you are″ makes it ″you are Hyundai.″ And who wouldn't want the affrmation of being called a useful machine?
However, one must watch out for ″yore″ as it connotates 'days of yore' and a sense of old age/senility.
Example: Best get treatment for yore syphilis, Carl. This implies that Carl is decrepit as well as syphilitic. Anyone who knows Carl may agree with that description. I know I do. But for a business letter, bad form.
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Rather than:
Move your Hyundai from the executive lot.
Try:
Move you're Hyundai from the executive lot.
The implied ″you are″ makes it ″you are Hyundai.″ And who wouldn't want the affrmation of being called a useful machine?
However, one must watch out for ″yore″ as it connotates 'days of yore' and a sense of old age/senility.
Example:
Best get treatment for yore syphilis, Carl.
This implies that Carl is decrepit as well as syphilitic. Anyone who knows Carl may agree with that description. I know I do. But for a business letter, bad form.
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