World's longest misspelt sentence
Sep 28, 2020, 10:19 am
#33
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I am not making fun of someone doing their job as best they can, I am making a valid point that public facing staff of a large British company/institution should at least be able to use the English language with some skill and competence. Is it so wrong to expect the correct use of the Queen's English in British business correspondence? Incidentally I would only recognise the adjective boilerplate as being a fine example of American English.
PS Shouldn't you have used a comma after "large" ?
Sep 28, 2020, 11:37 am
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Sep 28, 2020, 11:44 am
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Este artículo se refiere a BRITISH Airways, (oficina de la empresa:British Airways Plc, Harmondsworth, Londres.)Registrado en Inglaterra.
No se hace referencia a Iberia ni al IAG registrado en España.
Estoy seguro de que si te comunicas con alguno de los que están en español, te responderán en el español del rey español.
Translation as a courtesy for English speaking forum members
TTmex;32706021 - Well, Grupo IAG is a Spanish part, so I would like all the emails I receive to be well written in Spanish, not in English from the Queen of Great Britain.
Macdrew - This item refers to BRITISH Airways, (Company office: British Airways Plc, Harmondsworth, London.)Registered in England.
No reference to Iberia nor the Spanish Registered IAG.
I am sure that if you communicated with those in Spanish, they would reply in the Spanish King's Spanish.
No se hace referencia a Iberia ni al IAG registrado en España.
Estoy seguro de que si te comunicas con alguno de los que están en español, te responderán en el español del rey español.
Translation as a courtesy for English speaking forum members
TTmex;32706021 - Well, Grupo IAG is a Spanish part, so I would like all the emails I receive to be well written in Spanish, not in English from the Queen of Great Britain.
Macdrew - This item refers to BRITISH Airways, (Company office: British Airways Plc, Harmondsworth, London.)Registered in England.
No reference to Iberia nor the Spanish Registered IAG.
I am sure that if you communicated with those in Spanish, they would reply in the Spanish King's Spanish.
I was only having a little fun. I'm not sure about the Spanish King's Spanish. While the Royal Academy does seem to police the use of Spanish, I speak more of the Mexican variety and there are far more differences between that and Spanish Spanish as exist between US and UK English
Sep 28, 2020, 12:04 pm
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Reads like a poor speech-to-text transcription to me. "Would of" written where "would've" was spoken. "Passed" instead of "past".
But, of course, even if this is so, it doesn't excuse a customer service communication not being proofed before being sent.
But, of course, even if this is so, it doesn't excuse a customer service communication not being proofed before being sent.
Sep 28, 2020, 1:06 pm
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Sep 28, 2020, 1:12 pm
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