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Re:No Thanks, Google. I'll Speak for Myself by fjsolwmv on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @03:38PM (#17033179)
That's fantastic. “dictated not read.” means "I didn't have time to check that this is correct, please speed extra of your unimportant time to proofread for me." What a birthday gift!

To be fair, though, if the message was nice, dictation is t really an alternative to a telephone message which is also dictated but not so derided.

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Re:No Thanks, Google. I'll Speak for Myself by will_brown on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @04:04PM (#17033485)
In this instance he dictated the card to his assistant who in turn wrote the card/message.

This is old school legal professional formatting where the Initials of the assistant followed my grandfather’s name identifying which assistant typed the dictation.

He was smart, formal, thoughtful and a great sense of humor. Most of me thinks he did it as one day I would find the humor in it.

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Re:No Thanks, Google. I'll Speak for Myself by fzzzy on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @06:31PM (#17034827)
It’s highly amusing to me that you didn’t proofread your comment.
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