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I Won't Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here's Why. - Kyle Wiens

I Won't Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here's Why. - Kyle Wiens
by Kyle Wiens | 8:02 AM July 20, 2012 If you think an apostrophe was one of the 12 disciples of Jesus, you will never work for me. If you think a semicolon is a regular colon with an identity crisis, I will not hire you. If you scatter commas into a sentence with all the discrimination of a shotgun, you might make it to the foyer before we politely escort you from the building. Some might call my approach to grammar extreme, but I prefer Lynne Truss’s more cuddly phraseology: I am a grammar “stickler.” Now, Truss and I disagree on what it means to have “zero tolerance.” Everyone who applies for a position at either of my companies, iFixit or Dozuki, takes a mandatory grammar test. Of course, we write for a living. iFixit.com is the world’s largest online repair manual, and Dozuki helps companies write their own technical documentation, like paperless work instructions and step-by-step user manuals. But grammar is relevant for all companies. Wrong.

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What is Happening to My Voice, vocal cords, aging, massage, therapy, health, Darby Schlomer I’ve heard the change in all the old folks I know and love, so I wanted to know what is actually going on with our larynx as we age: What actually happens to make us sound older? I did find some information about how our voice is made and the part our vocal cords play. Robert J. Sinard wrote in "Geriatrics 1998", The Aging Voice: How to differentiate disease from normal changes (Can be read at www.findarticles.com): "Although there is no single unifying characteristic to defying the aging voice, a consideration of the pathophysiologic changes of aging on the organs responsible for voice production will help one to understand the potential efforts. The "true vocal folds" are also called inferior vocal folds or inner folds. Our vocal cords are moved by muscles which can make the vocal cords tight or loose. The John Hopkins Center reports that changes to the brain and spinal cord can affect neurological control of the laryngeal muscles. Try not to yell.

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