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Re:Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job? by WalterBright on Thursday April 15, 2021 @11:11PM (#26828981)
Gentle tip: writing "shouldn't of" instead "shouldn't have" is one of those critical writing misteaks one should never make when communicating with educated people. Some others worth special effort to do correctly:

1. their there they're

2. its it's

3. your you're

A couple other writing tips:

1. don't terminate sentences with .. or ...

2. "bosses" is plural, I think you meant "boss's" for the possessive

I know it sounds elitist, and it is, but with these kinds of mistakes their going to relegate you to the "not one of us" bin when looking for a well paying job.

It's well worth the effort to purge them from you're writing.

Re:Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job? by jcranmer on Friday April 16, 2021 @12:47AM (#26829594)
> writing "shouldn't of" instead "shouldn't have"

For me personally, this is the #1 bugbear of writing mistakes. I'm willing to tolerate most of the other failures (especially when they're exceptionally rare), especially because several of them can crop up when you decide to change the sentence between initial mental conception and committing to paper or keyboard.

> I know it sounds elitist, and it is, but with these kinds of mistakes their going to relegate you to the "not one of us" bin when looking for a well paying job.

It's not so much the "not one of us" bin as it is a sense of "you clearly can't put in the effort, so why should we?" It's for similar reasons that you are advised to dress up for interviews.

Re:Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job? by cercatrova on Friday April 16, 2021 @01:40AM (#26829948)
The irony of correcting others when you yourself have several writing mistakes.
Re:Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job? by WalterBright on Friday April 16, 2021 @01:41AM (#26829959)
I shall have myself flagellated.
Re:Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job? by cercatrova on Friday April 16, 2021 @01:44AM (#26829977)
As is tradition on HN
Re:Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job? by loco5niner on Sunday April 18, 2021 @04:50PM (#26856228)
Your right... I'm checking to see if he accidently out any words... two bad, I didn't notice any. (also... whoosh!)
Re:Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job? by goodpoint on Friday April 16, 2021 @12:04PM (#26835616)
There's no irony. Everybody makes mistakes.
Re:Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job? by WalterBright on Friday April 16, 2021 @03:51PM (#26838358)
All I can say is: whoosh!
Re:Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job? by ZephyrBlu on Thursday April 15, 2021 @11:46PM (#26829208)
> misteaks

Har har.

Re:Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job? by wolverine876 on Saturday April 17, 2021 @12:07AM (#26841499)
> 1. don't terminate sentences with .. or ...

Why not? 'Do you prefer C or Rust?' 'Would you like paper or plastic?' Perhaps I misunderstand.

Re:Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job? by fuzxi on Saturday April 17, 2021 @12:47AM (#26841643)
Not sure where you got the question marks from, but he's talking about ellipses (two or three periods in a row, like '...'). It's actually a stylistic choice and there's nothing inherently wrong with using it, but it is generally considered unprofessional and overuse is extremely annoying for readers.
Re:Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job? by wolverine876 on Sunday April 18, 2021 @02:27PM (#26854968)
I misunderstood what the GGP was referring to. As far as I know, ending a sentence with ellipses is considered improper English except for some special cases.
Re:Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job? by frman on Friday April 16, 2021 @01:04AM (#26829702)
their going
Re:Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job? by WalterBright on Friday April 16, 2021 @01:16AM (#26829791)
There a couple others, two.