🚀 go-pugleaf

.. and it came to pass that Alan J Webb <alan@bhfarm.demon.co.
uk> uttered forth:
>
>Oz, normal?!!!    :-)

As normal as a... er... hmmm... see what you mean now...
>
>My English was apparently not that good when I was at school. I was in
>the third set down whilst in top sets for maths, physics, chem etc.
>However when it comes to writing business letters or doing crosswords I
>am the one who gets consulted, despite my mother and sister being 
>good
>at English. Strange really.
>
Ditto - was consistently top of year for maths, but in 3rd set for
English. Failed EngLang at school, failed in the next summer
resits, failed in the following november resits but passed (finally)
at the same time I took my A levels. However, my communication
never really developed until I was getting into the last year of Uni
(when I had to write reports on coding that I'd done) and then I had
to re-think my vocab when I went into teaching the following year.

Talk about buggering around with me comms skills.

Now, I'm working for a computer training firm whereby the quality
of communication in company e-mails is frightening. What is
appalling is that some of the higher echelons claim dyslexia for
their poor mails.... when I see how careful some genuine
dyslexics are at forming coherent written passages (Oz - you're
one of them, along with several schoolkids I taught) to the point
that they're actively searching out their mistakes, I can only
conclude that the powers that be are pathetically lazy and
inconsiderate enough not to think of the demands placed on the
reader of the mails. This doesn't endear them to the rest of the
workers at all, but the execs still haven't grasped the point.
-- 
 
"Dungeon" Dave, in anti-harvest mode...

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