Here I go again with another one of my mortifying finds. Rough went out . . . with this:

"The board has authority to scrotum on whether to fine a homeowner or not."

Eh-hem.

"The board has authority to vote on whether to fine a homeowner or not."

I shadowed the "K." Ugh. :/

Editing a job. Sent out two roughs.  Just found this:

". . . it appears right now that anytime soon this dick counsel for defendants may not be . . . "

It's supposed to be:

". . . it appears right now that anytime soon this particular counsel for defendants may not be . . . "

Just for kicks, I decided to search my ASCII's for the word "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious."  Believe it or not (I couldn't believe it myself), it actually came up . . . in a deposition I took on September 23, 2009, said by the noticing attorney.

Opposing Counsel:  "The court reporter loves that.  She didn't know she's going to need a special dictionary for today's deposition."

Noticing Atty:  "I like challenges for everybody, so there's yours for the…

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Okay, for the last freakin' godforsaken time, IT IS NOT A #!*$@%! BACKSLASH!!! It's a SLASH, okay, a S-L-A-S-H, SLASH!!! So every time you unbelievably annoyingly say "backslash," I will write out the WORD backslash and not put in the correct SLASH symbol for you!



THIS is a slash: /

THIS is a backslash: \



Get it straight!!! Aaaaarrrrrgh! I HATE when attorneys/witnesses use the wrong term for the danged… Continue

Okay, I'll admit I posted this earlier and yanked it because I didn't want to create any bad blood, but I've been reading/seeing a lot of this going around in different forums/places lately, and it has really bothered me. I would love to hear what both sides have to say about this. (I have this tendency to address "sensitive" issues.) So here again is my original post:



I'm not much of a blogger, so this is just me kind of wondering aloud. I've never used a scopist, simply because I'm… Continue