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Check out the written English skills of crooked Georgia DA George Barnhill
Posted on 5/8/20 at 12:10 am
Posted on 5/8/20 at 12:10 am
You'd think that someone who studied law would have better English writing skills than the crooked Georgia DA George Barnhill:
- Double spaces after period to begin a new sentence
- Random semicolons
- Random capitalization
- Grammar that's barely high school level
- Also WTF kind of a sentence construction is that in the last paragraph of the first page?
Link to letter
And here is Mr. Barnhill:
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- Double spaces after period to begin a new sentence
- Random semicolons
- Random capitalization
- Grammar that's barely high school level
- Also WTF kind of a sentence construction is that in the last paragraph of the first page?
Link to letter
And here is Mr. Barnhill:
This post was edited on 5/8/20 at 1:01 am
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Posted on 5/8/20 at 12:14 am to hikingfan
Captain Tom Jump is a great name.
Posted on 5/8/20 at 12:15 am to hikingfan
I read that letter with Foghorn Leghorn's voice.
Posted on 5/8/20 at 12:16 am to hikingfan
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Also WTF kink of a sentence
If you’re going to bash writing skills, start with your own
This post was edited on 5/8/20 at 12:22 am
Posted on 5/8/20 at 12:17 am to hikingfan
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Double spaces after period to begin a new sentence
Many people actually do this
Posted on 5/8/20 at 12:17 am to hikingfan
And apparently "cannot" isn't a single word anymore. 
Posted on 5/8/20 at 12:20 am to hikingfan
I deal with a lawyer at work that is worse than this. When I start to go over all of his mistakes, he gets embarrassed and leaves the room before I'm finished. I never see the final copy that gets sent to the feds. I keep a copy to show what I pointed out to him incase he tries to blame shite on me.
Posted on 5/8/20 at 12:24 am to hikingfan
It seems like you’re making a lot of assumptions about this guy based off of this one instance.
Posted on 5/8/20 at 12:25 am to Celery
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If you’re going to bash writing skills, start with your own
Ah, you got me. Now go choke on some celery soy boy.
Posted on 5/8/20 at 12:27 am to hikingfan
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Double spaces after period to begin a new sentence
This is considered proper.
It's why autocorrect and predictive text in word programs automatically do it for you.
Posted on 5/8/20 at 12:29 am to hikingfan
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Now go choke on some celery soy boy
There should be a comma after the word Now
Posted on 5/8/20 at 12:30 am to hikingfan
Probably his paralegal or legal secretary writing the letter after he dictated it.
Posted on 5/8/20 at 12:35 am to hikingfan
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Double spaces after period to begin a new sentence
Someone at work told me this once and I was dumbfounded. Been doing it wrong all my life
Posted on 5/8/20 at 12:54 am to hikingfan
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Double spaces after period to begin a new sentence
Single spaces after a period is a recent change. It's always been double and I will always do double.
Posted on 5/8/20 at 12:59 am to Old Hellen Yeller
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Someone at work told me this once and I was dumbfounded. Been doing it wrong all my life
I wouldn't feel too bad about that actually. I'm old enough to have been around typewriters that my parents used and a double space after a period was standard back then when typing on paper. With the advent of computers and digital screens, the second space fell out of favor and I want to say only in the last 10-15 years has the single space become really mainstream and the accepted standard.
Fun fact - this only happened a couple of weeks ago: Microsoft Word now flags double spaces as errors, ending the great space debate
Posted on 5/8/20 at 1:00 am to hikingfan
So, I know a guy who was on the committee to hire a state supreme justice. He said that pretty much everyone but like 3 people in the running for the position, dozens of highly paid lawyers and judges, were completely incompetent at getting through an entry level interview for the position. He said most people flunked out on the question “please take a court case in the state and argue for or against the verdict,” because most lawyers and judges couldn’t name a court case.....
Posted on 5/8/20 at 1:06 am to Zappas Stache
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Probably his paralegal or legal secretary writing the letter after he dictated it.
I fricking hope so. That shite is pretty bad.
In a case that is getting national attention, there's no way that I let that letter be sent.
Posted on 5/8/20 at 1:15 am to hikingfan
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Double spaces after period to begin a new sentence
When did this change? Admittedly, it’s been 20 years since I got out of college, so I haven’t really kept up.
Posted on 5/8/20 at 1:31 am to KyleOrtonsMustache
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When did this change? Admittedly, it’s been 20 years since I got out of college, so I haven’t really kept up.
It's one of those petty things that people fight about.
Typewriters were monospace, which means that each letter, regardless of size, took up the same amount of space. 2 spaces made it easier to see the transition to a new sentence.
New fonts on computers are more proportional, so thinner letters take up less space than wider letters, and one space will do.
However, there have been studies that say that 2 spaces still makes for more efficient reading.
I just rock 3 spaces or huge run-ons, so I don't have to decide.
Posted on 5/8/20 at 1:33 am to Celery
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Now go choke on some celery soy boy
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There should be a comma after the word Now
You look like a tard when you correct one comma and not the other.
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