Wear a suit = upgrade to first class

i guess con-artists always wear suits.

What gets me is that people then defend their inability to use proper English grammar by saying "it's the internet, I wasn't trying to spell-check. It's about speed of typing."

Well, fine by me if someone mistypes. That I can understand. But the your/you're, there/their, lose/loose and other such errors don't reflect "speed" or "typing" issues to me. They're education issues.

Originally Posted by Style Pontifex

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A close second or third: "its" and "it's."


"It's" confused with "its" drives me crazy.

Originally Posted by TCN

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Funny, but you're right, a stretch . . . hell, beyond a stretch. The days of the "oh he seems nice" upgrade are long gone. Three ways to get upgraded to First Class:

1) Buy the ticket

Exactly.
Why make it harder on yourself??

Lose or loose.

As for the original question, I have never been upgraded to first class. But that is understandable since I am a looser.

I used to fly between Australia and Japan a few times a year for work and family purposes and I was only upgraded twice in about five years. Then, prompted by a friend of mine, I started asking.

Once I started asking - basically just smiling at the check-in person and asking if there were any spare seats in business or first class - I was upgraded about 50% of the time. On one occasion, when I asked if I could be upgraded, I was told that I had already been assigned to business class.

Most of the time I wasn't wearing a suit, but I was neatly dressed in chinos and a button up shirt, which was more than could be said for most of my fellow passengers.

you're/your

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Lose or loose.

As for the original question, I have never been upgraded to first class. But that is understandable since I am a looser.



I forgot about "loose/lose", that's a great one.

I don't know about you guys, but for me, bad grammar in a cover letter or writing sample = instant trash can for the candidate.

Originally Posted by Jumbie

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*queue someone to show up and say that it's informal and they will write correctly when they need to (complete with lolzorz)*

cue/queue

If you're going to criticise other people's writing (as I frequently do), it's always good to check your own first.

Completely agree with the sentiment though.

******* grammar nazis.

Originally Posted by SkinnyGoomba

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******* grammar nazis.

"******* grammar Nazis." ;-)

Originally Posted by Jumbie

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I've given up at this point.

*queue someone to show up and say that it's informal and they will write correctly when they need to (complete with lolzorz)*

"...he will write correctly when he needs to."

Originally Posted by Margaret

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"...he will write correctly when he needs to."

Hmm.. They/their can be used to refer to a person of unspecified sex.

Originally Posted by Babar

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Hmm.. They/their can be used to refer to a person of unspecified sex.
They're commonly used that way, but those usages are (technically speaking) incorrect; they and their are strictly plurals. I'm just bustin' chops, though.

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By the way, does anyone else think that if someone is going to publish more than 100 words at a time on the internet, that they should at least know more the difference between there/their/they're?

Well he used "noob" in the article too...