Wednesday, Jun 19, 2013 at 10:48
An example:
I got this in an email yesterday. "
well drive up saturday".
We were discussing going to a football match in
Sydney next Sunday afternoon. The Parramatta verses Rabbitos game at ANZ. That's all he put in the email. No punctuation and so on. Previously just my wife and I were going. And then we had all spoken about them joining us and making a weekend out of it. However they had to adjust the
shop rosters for both of them to be away at the same time.
So I understood it to mean; why don't just you two drive up on Saturday and we will join you for the game on Sunday. As if they couldn't shift the staff around and couldn't make it for the Saturday night.
So I booked accommodation and a dinner reservation for just my wife and I for the Saturday night and arranged to see some friends on Sunday until the game at 3PM.
That's not what he meant. He forgot the apostrophe in "We'll". In other words he was saying that "we will", that's all of us, drive up on Saturday.
AAArrrggghh
And people say that it's not necessary!
If a farmer sent "the whether was bad" in an email what would it mean if we didn't worry about spelling. You come across that word misspelt all the time.
Phil
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