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| Crimes of Illiteracy
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| Terms that are overused, incorrect, or just plain silly | If people thought about these words, phrases, and abbreviations before saying them, they might be inclined to avoid them. |
| Consistency and agreement is an important things | Make sure those nouns and verbs agree, and make sure your logic is consistent. |
| The overused (and incorrect) answering-machine greeting | Parallel construction in English from a math geek's perspective. |
| Mispronunciations | Don't hire me as your "accompanyist." |
| Orthographical catastrophes | Is that word really what you want, and do you really need all those capital letters? |
| Repetitive redundancies | Why I won't use the ATM machine near the TCBY yogurt outlet near NYU University. |
| Your reader insulted | You MUST read this before sending me any messages. |
| The best sentence I ever had the pleasure of editing | Most of the above, in one convenient real-life example. |