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Comment by Brenda Rogers on June 17, 2009 at 17:09

Words.

Comment by Quyen on June 7, 2009 at 13:52

I know! Me too! :)

Comment by Brenda Rogers on June 7, 2009 at 13:47

Good for you! Said in private like that is doing them a favor, I truly believe. It's just smack-dab in the middle of it that I'd like to talk to them like I do my kids -- and that just won't fly! LOL

Comment by Quyen on June 7, 2009 at 13:46

OK, I like the KWARK idea. Thanks! :)

Comment by Quyen on June 7, 2009 at 13:44

OK, I'll leave it as is. Thanks.

LOL, Brenda, believe it or not, I actually DID tell an attorney that! His questions were like this:

Q Were those -- did those -- were those operated after the testing period?

Q And -- and -- and -- and did you -- did you attend the conference in the -- the Bay Area?

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It was a full week of all-day depos -- all videotaped. He was killing me! After about three full days of all-day stuttering, at a break, I had a conversation with the attorney that went something like this:

Me: What -- what -- what -- what time do you -- do you think you'll -- you'll break for lunch?

He: (Staring at me blankly.)

Me: You know your transcripts are going to look terrible, right?

He: Oh, you mean my stuttering?

Me: Yep.

He: Just clean me up.

Me: I would, but this is being videotaped, so I can't. Just slow down and think about your questions before you ask them. You're thinking much faster than you can speak.

He: But my brain doesn't work that way.

Me (flashing a sweet, oh-so-innocent smile): And the record will so reflect.

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The first week was a completely lost cause. Well, at the second round of depos, week two, the first couple days were more of the same. By the third day, he did a total 180!

He said, after all my teasing, he realized he was talking like that to his secretary and the people in his office, too, so he's trying to slow down in his depos.

I told him he owes me one for making a better attorney out of him -- for some other reporter!

He and I are friends now. :)

Comment by Brenda Rogers on June 7, 2009 at 13:26

Question mark makes sense. It's just so disjointed, I'm not sure either one would be missed. But, yes, question mark is the better way to go.

Comment by Marla Sharp on June 7, 2009 at 13:21

The only thing I'd change is the period to a question mark at the end of that first sentence because, regardless of the interruptions, it's a question - "Do you notice in your daily life you can see the TV better...?"

But do you notice in your daily life -- I don't know if you live in the same place or -- there are certain things -- you can see the TV better or worse than before LASIK with your vision. [?]

Brenda, I have wanted to say that soooo many times to attorneys. Sooo many times.

Comment by Brenda Rogers on June 7, 2009 at 13:12

LOL Quyen! When my son starts that, I tell him to stop. think. then speak. Don't you wish you could say that to attorneys?

I wouldn't change a thing. GIGO!

Comment by Quyen on June 7, 2009 at 12:59

How to punctuate this:

But do you notice in your daily life -- I don't know if you live in the same place or -- there are certain things -- you can see the TV better or worse than before LASIK with your vision. Have you noticed anything like that with your left eye?

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It's doesn't flow smoothly, and there doesn't seem to be one complete sentence in this that makes sense except for the last question part.

Thanks.

Comment by Marla Sharp on June 7, 2009 at 11:13

I wouldn't write the numbers out in words. I don't think it helps with clarity in this case. I think the hyphen before 70,000 makes it look like a negative number. So I might just do 250, $70,000. Or you could put the word "dollars" after it, of course. Just my opinion.

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