Re: Portfolios of samples as Interviewing criteria [Remembering]
ERRATA: My previous post contains the one known occurrence of me getting
the rules for apostrophe usage in "its" wrong.
I wouldn't bring this up, but I actually had somebody contact me in an
offlist post, telling me that they immediately lose their respect for
anybody who misuses that particular bit of punctuation.
I know what they mean: it's like wearing white socks with a black suit. I've known people who had to change their name and move to another country - and even there, the faux pas hounded them. People would start whispering behind their backs. The next thing they knew, they had to pay cash for everything. They were socially ostracized. Children made up obnoxious rhymes about them. Dogs were specially trained by their neighbors to bite them. They lost the respect of their goldfish. Their families moved without forwarding addresses. In the end, most of them had to flee town one step ahead of a torch-carrying mob,and died lonely deaths in the wild - not so much from hunger or exposure, but from the sheer shame. Now, rumor has it, their ghosts do not rest, but prowl the restless moors and lonely cliffsides, condemned to an eternity of misery because they were so gauche as to commit a a grammatical lapse in public.
Okay, so I exaggerate a little. The goldfish still respected them.
But, seriously, I hope that the person who corrected you gets a life - or at least a renewed prescription of Prozac.
--
Bruce Byfield bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com 604.421.7177
http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield
"Monday morning, 6 AM, the clock rings off the wall,
I'm standing to attention in my bare feet in the hall,
I've got one leg down my trousers, can't find no socks at all,
But I'm a coiled spring of industry responding to your call."
- Andy M. Stewart, "Monday Morning"
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