Word geekery

[helblonde]

I'm editing a guidebook about IT responsibilities in M&A.  (Zzzzzz....) I knew I was in trouble when I asked my boss whether there was a technical writer involved and he said "you're it!"

Aside from one of the writers not knowing that we're writing in English, so we don't need to capitalize every single noun, I have grabbed a couple of interesting errors. Today's favorite:

(blah, blah, blah, etc...)


Um, "etc..."? I'm pretty sure the elipsis has no place in business writing and certainly does not need to be combined with et cetera. *sigh*

Comments

[lifeofglamour.livejournal.com]

Huh. I would have thought that "blah blah blah" and "etc" were redundant enough already.

[helblonde.livejournal.com]

Well I left out the originallist because it was just as boring as the "blah, blah, blah". To be accurate to the original, though, I should have written "Blah, Blah, Blah".