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Pedants' corner

Would it be very pedantic of me to reply to this school/PTA email highlighting this <ahem> word confusion?

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MadreInglese · 26/01/2010 11:24

"you can also visit the new PTA website to find out what you?re fantastic PTA is doing to support XXXX School"

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nickelbabe · 26/01/2010 11:25

i don't think it would be, but i'm a pedant, so....

you don't have to tell them, just highlight it with a yellow highlighter pen...

MadreInglese · 26/01/2010 11:26

well that was an apostrophe but somehow is now a question mark

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TamartorousBeastie · 26/01/2010 11:30

I wonder how you'd react to half the letters we get sent home? They drive me insane and i'm no pedant.

MadreInglese · 26/01/2010 11:35

Don't people realise that errors like that on 'official' mail outs just make them look like numpties?

(yes yes I know it's not a big sin in the grand scheme of things but it drives me maaaaaaaad)

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nickelbabe · 26/01/2010 12:00

it is a big sin, though.
i know they're not teachers, but they represent an educational establishment, so their letters and official forms should be correct.

MadreInglese · 26/01/2010 14:13

I'm itching to write a reply

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nickelbabe · 26/01/2010 17:09

you could put "i'm glad to know about my're PTA and ....."

WingedVictory · 20/02/2010 10:06

Ha ha, I read it initially as PITA. It's a shame your text has to be perfect to point out their "typo", as it would be soooo cool to slip the extra I into PTA.

Feenie · 20/02/2010 10:11

As a teacher, I am itching to correct our PTA's mailouts. But I know it would offend them, and it is hard enough to get willing volunteers to run the PTA as it is. So I wince and turn a blind eye. The Head's letters are a different kettle of fish entirely....

Skegness · 20/02/2010 10:28

It's a bad error but correction of this sort is extremely rude, I'm afraid.

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