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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I am typing on my phone!

Attorneys usually can’t write articles or book [sic]. Bring [sic] an attorney does not give you any leg up in writing.[/quote]

You should get off your phone until you learn to proofread your work.

How do you know what attorneys usually write? You cannot even get the basic grammar of a post right.
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I reject articles written by attorneys all the time. This is entertainment; this is not being published. It does not matter if there are typos or grammatical errors. I have to deal with editing at work. I’m not doing that while I’m being entertained by these ridiculous posts and I’m typing on my phone. The last thing I want to do when I am being entertained (while reading and replying to posts on here) is to worry about subject-verb agreement; proper punctuation of adjectival modifiers; fixing bad transitions and factual errors; rewriting introductions and conclusions; changing en dashes to em dashes because no one knows how to use them properly; and on and on and on.

I don’t pretend to know the law because I’m not an attorney and you shouldn’t be so presumptuous to think you can chastise people about writing with the inaccurate assumption that being an attorney gives you a qualification of assessing writing. This is a public online forum it’s not a magazine, newspaper, or a book. No one cares. When I’m writing something that is going to be published or I’m editing something that is going to be published, correct grammar and usage matters…and that is the only time it matters. I’m not at work right now.

And by the way, where it matters, a lot of attorneys make a lot of errors, such as my divorce paperwork: my attorney made so many mistakes, it was out of control. She couldn’t get the facts right or spell things properly in a document that actually matters! An online post doesn’t matter! Get over yourself.
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