I use contractions in informal writing but can "turn them off" quite easily while at work (for instance, anything that's [that is] going to a client can't [cannot] have contractions in it).
I see a lot of doctor writing, and a lot of dictated notes, so I am eternally grateful to those who expend the time/effort to actually figure out what the eff doctors mean when they say shit. Or write shit. Lawyers constantly have to ask doctors at depositions "this note here on page 43... dafuq that say?"
There's a big push in the medical field, I understand, to write everything out and to say everything and to highlight frequently confused things. I know that the names of a lot of medications are always written with certain parts capitalized, to distinguish from other similar-sounding drugs. And there are lots of rule about abbreviations and numbers and being sure to distinguish between 5.0 and 50 and "fifty" and "fifteen" and all that. Blah. Stupid dumb language.
I see a lot of doctor writing, and a lot of dictated notes, so I am eternally grateful to those who expend the time/effort to actually figure out what the eff doctors mean when they say shit. Or write shit. Lawyers constantly have to ask doctors at depositions "this note here on page 43... dafuq that say?"
There's a big push in the medical field, I understand, to write everything out and to say everything and to highlight frequently confused things. I know that the names of a lot of medications are always written with certain parts capitalized, to distinguish from other similar-sounding drugs. And there are lots of rule about abbreviations and numbers and being sure to distinguish between 5.0 and 50 and "fifty" and "fifteen" and all that. Blah. Stupid dumb language.
How will we know, when the morning comes, we are still human? - 2D
Don't worry, my friend. If this be the end, then so shall it be.
Don't worry, my friend. If this be the end, then so shall it be.
