“Our office is easy to prepare” and other linguistic harassment from readers

How disgusting that even teachers at school make linguistic errors in children's reports. I'm afraid I won't (nor do I want to) get used to it.

Janneke van Zijl Niesink via LinkedIn

Linguistic purists suffer from language disease 🤒 There is no other purpose in a boring life so look for mistakes 🙄 Understandable language is more important than perfect language 📚 Changes due to youth like abbreviations and simplifications are great 🎉 AI will help us write better, so the need to learn perfect human language disappears sws 😉 🚀 I think language teaching will become extinct within 10 years… Syrian

Niels Vermeer via LinkedIn

I cry more about this than I did about my final Greek exam.

Tweet from @PSimonV_

(…) Someone recently felt attacked by my exclamation marks!….

Tweet from Johan de Gauberville

Is there a word for it, like misophonia for voices? Especially “I”, I'm throwing the sofa through the window when I read that. Is there a word for that, like “misophonia” for sounds? Especially me, I'm throwing the couch through the window when I read that.

Tweet from Marian Mall-Readers

What nonsense. These include errors that have been complained about for more than a hundred years. Maybe read something about it?

Tweet from Karen Thieves

Perhaps we should no longer call this “language errors,” but rather rename it “new language.” This is hip, this is progressive. We call it decolonizing language 😉. Users of “old language” are old conservative gym socks stuck in the last century.

Tweet from Wienand Drenth

I came across the word rudeness yesterday. On the publisher's website.

Tweet from Saskia Licht-Worris

I also wouldn't judge anyone for an occasional mistake, but laziness and apathy are always bad. Should we just accept a hair in your soup at a restaurant? What if the surgeon sutures you in a slightly crooked way?

Tweet from Sylvia Whitman

I just want a period at the end of the sentence. 😭😭😭

Tweet from Haneke Schmitz

Language, the vehicle of the mind, must not degenerate into a noisy barrel of Japke-d. Puma.

Velez J via LinkedIn

Our office is easy to prepare, as my previous employer's HR department wrote in a full-page hiring ad two years ago – 🙂

Peter Lancer via LinkedIn

(…) Your column about grammatical errors that no longer concern anyone will immediately appear prominently on the bulletin board in the staff room tomorrow! My classmates in particular can prepare themselves a little for what they will face when grading final exams.

Ingrid Seckler-Westerink via email

Ended dating years ago.

Tweet from Maria Bowens

(…) I come from an area where we naturally communicate with each other through gestures, scent flags, and, if there is no other option, through guttural sounds. I have embraced good language as my ticket to the world. I will never give up that wealth and beauty.

Tweet from Bart Holvoet

Good. However, you are judged for this on many job applications. Employers have a different view. If you write your letter (secretarial vacancy):

I want to submit a request. They say it's a nice job. It makes me feel happy. etc. Then you won't be.

Tweet from Tineke A.

Just wait until you read the job posting texts from the employer. (…) Then you don't want to work there anymore, despite the “partially paid parental leave”.

Tweet from Lina Hamel

Enter a new line. If you pronounce it as -t, also write it as -t. Why make it difficult when it's easy?

Tweet from Minze T.

This reminds me of the story of the Tower of Babel.

Tweet from BPvL

There is also another side: that of the language user who has to master arbitrary and inconsistent rules. Grammar is sold as logic by linguistic committees in the polluted and inconsistent jungle of language. Where can the language be made more user-friendly? (…) Language should be determined by users, not by a committee. (…) A good UI designer also calculates from the user (bottom-up) rather than top-down.

Tweet from Curtis

That man from Haban Ula Fugala is turning in his grave!

Rob Roelofs via LinkedIn

I refuse to hire people who communicate via WhatsApp. Even if I have to work 8 extra hours every day.

Tweet from Jeroen Sweets

Language is a living organism, that's true. But if you don't take good care of an organism, it will die.

Erald Kahmann via LinkedIn

Pure language to the core! ️⚰️

Valerie Plessers via LinkedIn

For me, the third option would be: immigration.

Johan Bemsterbauer via LinkedIn

The most verbal people I know all have dyslexia. They have such an original vocabulary and use language that is so fascinating that I increasingly wonder why spelling is considered so important. Language is much more than that.

Anne Marie Jungegan via LinkedIn

When I read internships and graduate papers, I get a little anxious. How do future engineers approach report generation and advice in their professional practices? I also notice that the inability to read with understanding for the same reason leads to wrong answers, for example in mathematical tasks.

Pete Zijlstra via LinkedIn