I'm supposed to be working on a group project right now. I wasn't able to work with my partners in person due to work/time conflict. I was emailed the updated project and assigned certain topics to complete. While I have no problem with working in a group, the topics I was assigned, or that I couldn't meet on Saturday with them. I do have a problem with their inadequate grammar/word choice. Our project is to create an event, ours is a wine/food tasting fund raiser to benefit Bulldog Pantry (Fresno State's food bank. The word "poor" was used 10 times to describe the people/neighborhood/community served by this food bank, in one paragraph (5 sentences). You couldn't use "impoverished" or "destitute". That one might not be so bad, sometimes you just can't think of a synonym. One sentence (that I can't find anymore) I couldn't even understand it was worded so poorly. It's very obvious who wrote which parts because the person that says things like, "'member what he said in class" instead of remember. This is one of my biggest pet peeves. Bad spelling/grammar and speaking habits. It makes the person sound like an idiot. Use a thesaurus or dictionary. Seriously, they have them online now so it's even easier.
I've decided that there's too much editing to do to even bother fixing it. I still have most of my own work to do. I can't worry about the work of anybody else right now. I'm just very frustrated with it.
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