The recent discussion of shorthand users (whether reporters, secretaries, or others) correcting words — putting down what should have been said rather than what was said — reminds me of some recent emails from a boss, which were perhaps not as shiny linguistically as they could have been.
And I thought, there was something to be said for the time in which it was more common for a boss to call in a secretary to take dictation and have her (or him) turn out grammatically beautiful, orthographically correct prose, rather than have the boss write out their own emails. Ah, “progress”.
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