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Grammar Giggle – Know The Name Of Your Own High School

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My granddaughter sent this to me. Her brother (who just started as a freshman in her high school) received this from his teacher. I’ve included the school district’s web page for this high school. There is a difference and you should know how to spell the name of your employer.Untitled design (2)

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Grammar Giggle — Personalizing

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I realize that most companies who personalize things make you agree, and agree again, that what you have provided to them is correct. I understand that. I just wish they wouldn’t use bad examples in their catalogs. I saw these on the cover of a personalizing company’s catalog. Besides the fact that there is no apostrophe necessary because Robert doesn’t own anything related to this sentence, I’m curious about exactly why Robert feels entitled to be called “The Robert.” If it were the Roberts Family, it should say “Party With The Roberts.” In the second example, again, there should be no apostrophe because you’re talking about the “Bishop Family Reunion.” It is the reunion of the Bishop Family and the apostrophe and “s” are unnecessary.

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Grammar Giggle – Amazon Need More Staff

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I’ve seen a couple of different ads like this for Amazon. What I think Amazon REALLY needs is someone to proofread anything with their name on it! Hello {knocks on monitor glass}, I’m over here! Amazon, the company, is treated as a singular unit, so it should be “Amazon NeedS More Staff” as in “it [Amazon] needs” not “they need.”

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Grammar Giggle – Lobster Facts Corrections

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A friend sent me this picture from her recent Florida vacation. I’ll explain the many errors.

Lobster

  1. First paragraph. First red circle should be “larger” and second small red circle should be the closing parenthesis mark.
  2. Third paragraph – extra space between “omega” and the dash.
  3. Next red circle, “lobster” isn’t capitalized in other parts of the paper.
  4. The next two red circles – the first circled word should be “than” and there should be a period at the end of the sentence.
  5. The last red circle should be “younger ones” if you’re going to talk about multiple “older lobsters.”
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Is It The Privilege Or The Privileged Information?

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MANHATTANA reader wrote and asked me whether the phrase “attorney-client privilege” or “attorney-client privileged” was correct. I gave her my answer and told her that I would write a blog post on it.

“Attorney-client privilege” is defined as “the requirement that an attorney may not reveal communications, conversations and letters between himself/herself and his/her client, under the theory that a person should be able to speak freely and honestly with his/her attorney without fear of future revelation.” (http://dictionary.law.com/default.aspx?selected=2467)

“Attorney-client privileged” would be used if you were talking about an “attorney-client privileged communication” or “attorney-client privileged information.”

I did find a law firm article (http://www.faegrebd.com/the-holey-grail-a-guide-to-attorney-client-privilege) indicating memos containing privileged information should be marked “ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL.” This makes sense because you are talking about the information in the memo, which is attorney-client privileged information (as mentioned above) and is confidential information.

So, if you are indicating on a memo or on a letter that the information is confidential and subject to the attorney-client privilege, the correct designation appears to be “ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGED INFORMATION.” It follows that you could say that the word “information” is assumed and “ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGED” is a correct designation.

When you are talking about the privilege and not the information, then “attorney-client privilege” is proper, but if you are talking about information or a specific communication, then “attorney-client privileged” is correct.

This research proved that my original answer to the reader was . . . wrong! But now I know and will be able to figure out if we are talking about the privilege or the communication so that I get it right.

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Social Media Advertising For The Loss!

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A friend forwarded this one to me. I don’t even know where to start, so I have circled the errors that I found in a quick review. Note that the word “lite” is in more common usage when you’re talking about a lower calorie or lower fat version of a food, but NOT when talking about fire used to light something. That is “light.”

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