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Originally Posted by OVERULD
Chuck,
Very cool letter. Businessmen really knew how to write proper business letters back in those days. The business communications I receive from my vendors and customers today is barely grade school level grammar. Obviously a mistake was made regarding the gender of the recipient of the letter in your Aunt's case, but the word-crafting and proper use of punctuation is representative of what was very common during that business era.
BJ
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I went to business school 10 years ago - and saw the same from my classmates. Their writing was terrible: when we did group papers, I was always saying stuff like "Have you ever heard of writing an outline? That you don't write like you talk? Is English your first language?"
Today, I write a monthly article in a trade journal. I'm always amused at how awful my competitors' writing is. The best class I ever took was 11th grade English with the high school football coach. We spent the entire year writing papers while following a very strict structure - and it has stuck with me.
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