Do you think it would serve as a good excuse for missing the meeting? Just hand it in to the person in charge when you saunter in to their room the next day?
Back before I started this blog, I used to drive family members crazy by sending them examples of poor grammar. One day I received an email newsletter from a local training center promoting an Olympic qualifying event. (Yes, this was a while ago - I no longer had it, but someone I know saves email for forever and forwarded it to me the other day.)
Here is what appeared in the newsletter:
preperations for the athletes in their persuit of
Makes me cringe all over again. This was promoting our potential Olympians! Aauugghh!
"I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" - Network
If there were an open window close by, I might be hanging my head outside and screaming that famous line several times a day. What has happened to us? It seems as if there are no longer any rules in the English language. Overuse of quotation marks, an abundance of apostrophes, basic sentence skills being mangled - I've had enough!