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Are you serious? Have you worked in a board room at a Fortune 500 company? Most CEOs and executives don't have time to compose grammatically-error-free response
by kraggp 16y ago
Are you serious? Have you worked in a board room at a Fortune 500 company? Most CEOs and executives don't have time to compose grammatically-error-free responses. Do you know how Steve Jobs writes? Now multiply that across 500 organizations of the biggest corporations in America and the shoddy writing will certainly shock you if you think "people are less likely to take a comment seriously" because their sentences aren't grammatically-correct. Calling someone a fool because they write differently from you is absurd. Ad hominem attacks don't belong on HN.
- JesseAldridge 16y agoBeing CEO of a Fortune 500 is such a strong signal of competence that you don't need any others. Ad hominem is useful in the real world because one's credibility impacts the probability that what they say is accurate.
- IsaacL 16y agoI agree. It might sometimes be a status thing, as in, "I'm so important that I don't need to spellcheck my emails to you."
- muhfuhkuh 16y ago"Most CEOs and executives don't have time to compose grammatically-error-free responses." I've been at 3 F500 companies in my 20 years of work, and where those F500 have even changed CEOs once or twice. The only time a CEO has ever sent anything grammatically or syntactically incorrect is when he's paging IT from his cellphone to fix something on the Executive floor. Everything else is carefully crafted and presented, especially internal memoranda. Being a CEO is more than just promoting synergy like a boss; communication (including and especially writing) is almost everything else.
- prawn 16y agoIf you're the one with the money/power, you probably get a little leeway in your dress and writing.