No-bullshit tenets for faster decision-making

Re:No-bullshit tenets for faster decision-making by dreamcompiler on Saturday September 18, 2021 @11:44AM (#28577090)

Came here to say "finally somebody spelled 'tenets' properly" but you beat me to it. Thanks!

Now we just need to stamp out "reign in" (the 'g' shouldn't be there), "mute point" (it's "moot"), "take another tact" (it's "tack"), "digestive track" (it's "tract"), and various versions of "Wallah! Here's the product!" (it's "voila!").

And "its" is always possessive while "it's" is never possessive.

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Re:No-bullshit tenets for faster decision-making by ggambetta on Saturday September 18, 2021 @12:03PM (#28577222)

I had forgotten about "wallah"! What an abomination.

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Re:No-bullshit tenets for faster decision-making by pjc50 on Saturday September 18, 2021 @11:54AM (#28577159)

My personal bugbear: "loose" which should nearly always be "lose".

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Re:No-bullshit tenets for faster decision-making by ben_w on Monday September 20, 2021 @04:40AM (#28591518)

I am frequently guilty of this. I mostly only even notice when my proof-reading takes the form of running the text through a speech synthesiser.

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Re:No-bullshit tenets for faster decision-making by HKH2 on Saturday September 18, 2021 @11:49AM (#28577126)

"tow the line"

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