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Subject:Re: pet peeves From:"Westra, Kayla L." <13718westr -at- KCPBLDG01 -dot- BV -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 22 Aug 1994 12:10:00 CDT
Pet peeves, you said?
An overabundance of abbreviations and acronyms
Considerable (as in, considerable experience)
Based on (when they really mean, on the basis of)
Due to (when they mean, because of)
Personifying inanimate objects
Misplaced modifiers and dangling participles (Driving down Highway 40, the
power
plant came into view)
Etc.
i.e. and e.g. where they are not appropriate
Enough for now!
Kayla Westra
13718westr -at- kcpbldg01 -dot- bv -dot- com
Black & Veatch
"Illa est causa mea, et ad eam haeso."
