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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
What do you do when a partner (or attorney more senior to you) uses incorrect grammar? Do you correct it (say in writing?), or do you let it go? Thoughts?
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I would correct it in writing, and more often than not, the person will ask why you changed it, and then I would explain. The back-and-forth works too, and eventually you could just staple a page from some treatise proving that you are (of course) right.
I remember one particularly annoying partner I once worked for who would sooner gouge her eyes out than be proven wrong, who patronizingly began another lecture by pointing out how "half the time you use 'set off' and half the time you use 'set-off'" and then continued the lecture by explaining the importance of consistency, etc.
I politely stepped in, explaining that one is a noun, one is a verb, and depending on the usage, you may need a hyphen, you may not. Her response? Long stare.... "OK"
Turned on heel and left.
GEEZ, I hated her. She is someone about whom the following sentence was uttered (but, lamentably -- I wish I had thought of it first, not by me): "I could put a bullet in her head and get a good night's sleep." Not a popular partner, that one.
