Re: FN-FORUM whats the best way to get business

date posted 1st August 2002 17:28

>(we now call SMS 'Irritable Vowel Syndrome')

The boy with Advanced IVS is a London Oratory boy, without the extra tuition
Tony, but with added Latin.

Rgds
Crl Bltn
www.nghtymtt.cm

on 1/8/02 3:58 pm, Stuart Wright at [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:

> Twenty years ago a girl I was friendly with left private school with 10
> grade A O-levels, one of which was Latin. She was asked to send her C.V. to
> a prospective employer. She didn't have a clue what one was.
>
> I remember laughing till I cried at the complete waste of the most expensive
> education Yorkshire could provide. My wasted education was all state
> provided, although it would have been a lot better if they had provided some
> teachers along with the classrooms.
>
> Stuart.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> [EMAIL REMOVED] Behalf Of Paul J White
> Sent: 01 August 2002 16:33
> To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM whats the best way to get business
>
>> state of present day written communication? Do some people sit in front of
>> their word-processors wondering what all the green and red highlighting
>> means?
>>
> Nope, it means a load of M$ bollocks generally. You wouldn't believe the
> nonsense I've had to argue over recently, from a client who insisted it was
> correct because it had been done in Word...
> Send them all to grammar schools and make them do Latin, half the people who
> leave school are functionally illiterate, rant, fume...
>
> Paul.