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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Mine, too. Even when you win the argument by citing to a reliable source, some assjack is always willing to say that nobody observes that rule anymore, and it has better "flow" the way they wanted it. This is usually the point where I humbly acquiesce, because being seen as a team player with a keen sense of which way the wind is blowing is ultimately more rewarding than being right.
It's a special disease in which self-absorbed partners refuse to recognize when the arguments they win with their employees weren't won on merit or with vigorous vetting by properly motivated opposition.
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In those rare instances where I engage in a verbal ping-pong match with a supervising partner/attorney about grammar, I never refer to style manuals, Strunk & White, or any other "authority." Instead, I focus primarily on the
unintended vagueness/ambiguities generated by em's "correction," or how the "correction" might result in a change of meaning.
As for those insubstantial grammatical errors which em insists are correct, I simply don't pursue them beyond a passing comment -- for winning them often requires a more academic/theoretical line of reasoning for which em does not have any patience. Any victory in such an exchange will most likely be a phyrric one.
