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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
> It's a laugh a minute in here...
> "A degree is essential, not advantageous but essential."
> ...? It's not an advantage, but it is essentially? Perhaps you mean that
> it's not merely advantageous but actually essential? You're not
> explaining yourself very well.
Maybe the person who wrote the sentence got the two words mixed up and
really meant "a degree is advantageous, not essential but advantageous".
> "Ideally you will have 1 year as a team lead of managing projects."
> Team lead of managing projects? I get what you mean, but that's some
> very strange grammar.
Isn't "lead" often used a synonym for "leader"? But the sentence clearly
misses the word "experience" between "year" and "as".
> "The position is for someone who is interested in the progression to
> full team leader capacity. Hands on and hands off."
> No idea what that last is supposed to mean. It's not even a complete
> sentence!
Those British figures of speech... Who could understand them?
> "We're ideally looking for someone who hasn't come from a small company
> and are used to large infrastructure."
> "Someone" is singular, "are" is plural. Your grammatical numbers do not
> agree.
"Infrastructure" ought to be in plural as well.
> "Please apply asap to Tony Chapman. "
> I'm reasonably sure initialisms are supposed to be capitalised.
I suppose that "asap" has practically become a word on its own right
in vernacular English.
> I could spend all day just cateloguing all the grammatical issues I've
> found, but the overall impression is one of carelessness and
> unprofessional people. If you place an ad worded as badly as these, what
> does that say to people about your company?
That they are trendy young people?
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- Warp
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