Forgive me, for I have sinned. I am a jerk and an asshole and the biggest sinner since Britney Spears. I adhere to certain principles in life, as we all do, and I try beyond my abilities not to go against any of them. Some while ago, when I was still in school (7th grade, to be precise), I became a purist of the English language, and I have a track record of being grammatically, politically and syntactically correct whenever I use the language to write, speak, SMS, email or abuse. And yesterday, I sinned.
I had ranted about the ridiculous PR lingo a while back, and to this day, almost a year into my career as a PR man, I strongly believe that the PR lingo needs a major upheaval. There are phrases like ‘dipstick’, ‘revert back’, ‘backgrounder’ and other molestations of the language, along with a stream of utterly infuriating acronyms like MRR, WRR, SR, ER, MOM, MT, PC, SC, C and AC. See, I told you, it’s a nightmare.
So anyway, my fall from grace, my hour of shame, my ignominy was this particular sentence I said:
“The jerk’s gonna send me the boilerplate in a while…”
I said it and I froze. I think I’m more suited to work in a foundry than in PR. I can’t believe I actually used the word ‘boilerplate’. I am doomed.
Forgive me, for I have sinned.
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Haahaa.. 😀 Forgiven!!
Didn’t know even GOD made mistakes 😛
Wow! That will take some repentance!
LOL. Such a grave mistake, I mean really, this lifetime ain’t gonna cut it!
Chod diya jaaye ya maar diya jaaye bol tere saath kya suluk kiya jaaye….
You look good with the dunce cap on! Jokes apart…you really are hard on yourself! Any one, even God Himself can make mistakes!! 🙂
Dude… I feel your pain. That fall from grammatical grace does kinda hurt.
Don’t know if I’ve commented here before, but if not, been following you for a bit, really dig your stuff.
and what is a boilerplate?
And btw “gonna” is wrong too 😛
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Isn’t boilerplate a standard term used in documentations and contractual agreements? We use it all the time! Is it not right english?
Happens.. its ok.. am sure the Man up there forgives u…. 😀
You are forgiven!! 🙂
Who are us to forgive or not??
Its beyond our powers…ask those powers 😉
Allright….Allright…You are forgiven just this once!! Please make sure that you do not repeat this again 😛
I feel like God! 😛
Seriously WTF is boilerplate
What you did is not wrong but in other way its not right too!
Your excused this time.. 😀
In btw isn’t ‘Boilerplate’ a contract term?
“Forgive him GOD, for he didn’t know what he was doing!!!!” 😉
gonna? 😉
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for those who asked! – boilerplate – Standard formulations uniformly found in certain types of legal documents or news stories…
ur post or this definition? one of them has confused me! Just dont knw which one!