Muddle-headed Kay (mhw) wrote,
Muddle-headed Kay
mhw

This journal has been placed in memorial status. New entries cannot be posted to it.

  • Mood: blah

*cries*

Sometimes editing other people's text just hurts. I should be inured to poor writing, having had to mark student essays, but...

It is possible for a company to target subscribers with time sensitive information about for example share prices via email that is relatively instant.

Am I being far too precious about language, or is 'relatively instant' an abomination? never mind the punctuation or lack thereof.

*whimpers and goes back to editing*
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