No Longer Fit For Purpose?

[choux]

If applied here, would the guidance issued to his staff by Jacob Rees-Mogg rule you out of posting?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7290591/Jacob-Rees-Mogg-BANS-staff-using-got-equal-new-Leader-Commons-office.html

[Prudie]

If I'm addressing an envelope to a mature man as a mark of respect. Also as someone who works in an organisation that survives on email and written processes I see staff, some very senior, put commas after and, spaces before commas and full stops, apostrophes on plurals - rafts of grammatical errors that I gather only matter if you're an old dinosaur..

[Old_Geezer]

IMO he has some of it right, some of it wrong.

[vetuste_ennemi]

//I can't complain aboutI can't complain about him calling a son Sixtus when I've found a Septimus in my ancestry search//

He has several called Spurius, does he not?

[Khandro]

//He wants to see double spaces after a full stop. //

So ? and what about the Oxford comma before 'and' ?

These are, quite rightly, serious guerrilla tactics to bamboozle Brussels.

[vetuste_ennemi]

//...I see staff, some very senior, put commas after and, spaces before commas and full stops, apostrophes on plurals - rafts of grammatical errors that I gather only matter if you're an old dinosaur.//

Not sure whether Prudie comes to bury Jacob or to praise him.

But I do note that a frequent criticism of the new PM is that he "doesn't attend to detail".

If that's a defect, then knowing how your language, which is the means by which we try to convey meaning and contest ideas among ourselves, is currently used ought to be a useful asset, don't you agree?

PS: I'm possibly only one of two contributors to this thread who have read Partridge. Sadly it's only Pet who can remember any of it.

[Ken4155]

The guy is so far up his own rectum, it would require the most experienced search and Rescue team to locate him.

[douglas9401]

What possible use could a politician have for clear, unambiguous language?

Jacob's 'avin a giraffe.