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Monday, 29 November 2010
National Australia Bank
Should you really trust a bank that can neither handle its computers nor deal with apostrophes?
"to assist customers' access cash" makes no sense to me.
I love the way you have all the jargon - 'noun phrase': if only I'd gone to school at a time when they didn't think grammatical terminology would harm the infant brain..
I was also at school at such a time - i.e we didn't get taught any English grammar either! I am a mere amateur in these matters, like one of those blokes you meet in pubs who've read quite a lot of books about nuclear physics/the Freemasons/Jewish conspiracy theories/etc and have convinced themselves that they have become some sort of oracle.
Hmm, horrid. Though if Australia is following America's example then 'Access Cash' might possibly be a new noun phrase.
ReplyDeleteI love the way you have all the jargon - 'noun phrase': if only I'd gone to school at a time when they didn't think grammatical terminology would harm the infant brain..
ReplyDeleteI was also at school at such a time - i.e we didn't get taught any English grammar either! I am a mere amateur in these matters, like one of those blokes you meet in pubs who've read quite a lot of books about nuclear physics/the Freemasons/Jewish conspiracy theories/etc and have convinced themselves that they have become some sort of oracle.
ReplyDeleteHow did you know I meet those blokes in pubs?
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