Those employees need to read the relevant pages of Atlas Shrugged. Not about going on a strike, but rather petitioning their local congresspeople to prevent anyone anywhere within that geographical area from being fired! Employers who fire employees are betraying the principles of brotherhood so dear to us all!!

Woo-Hoo! Prepositional sentence-ending and infinitive-splitting: Grammar Girl's TOP TWO fallacies!

I sit absolved of guilt.
:)

" I love ellipses and splitting infinitives"
phrase of the day

<humor?>
When you're READING?? Might be some kind of neurological problem.... :)))))))
</humor?>

Seems I have created a small stink! LOL

Bad grammar hurts my ears!

Gee, I thought there was some definite government agency involved. They didn't want to lose the company (tax revenues) and the employees (voters). On the other hand, I'm sure the unions would be for any law prohibiting the loss of union members:)

I want one too but minus the you!
What really annoys me is when
people say "off OF' -OF i.e. he fell
off OF the roof...she fell off OF
the bike...' -OFF is totally useless.
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I just turned 68,, so I'm of "an older generation," too, but at least on conversational blogsites and casual conversation, I don't give a rat's butt about ending a sentence with a preposition.

Many sentences make for an awkward flow if you do... the proverbial "ending a sentence with a preposition is something of which I am loathe to do..."

And I love ellipses and splitting infinitives, too, because I feel they give the reader's mind a chance to "take a breath" during the reading of a sentence.

And I hate commenters and bloggers who don't seem to feel the need to separate their word torrent into paragraphs.

And I don't mind at all that I begin sentences (or paragraphs) with "and."

Before I retired, I worked for a well-known company (check my CV), where "managers" very commonly would use constructions like "give that report to Tom or myself," without blinking a mental eye at how atrocious that is.

Yes, that's what the following generations think is "communication," but ending a sentence with a preposition is, to me, not even a minor infraction compared to the grammatical felonies these "youngsters" commit all the time.

Yours in grammar and content, welcome here!
(oh, I also use "dirty words," too... I'm originally from NJ, where they're pretty much used as punctuation marks while speaking.)

:)

Maybe, if you mean Boeing and Washington State versus South Carolina, I believe, but that was, I think, the unions opposing the move because it would cost them jobs and SC (like NC) is pretty much a non-union state.

Unions love their members and hate any kind of competition.

Now, there WAS/IS, I believe a handgun manufacturer who IS leaving Connecticut after THEY passed some tight laws... again, I think they're moving to NC, too. We love manufacturing industries who employ skilled labor!

Apparently, CT doesn't mind losing jobs and tax revenue as a matter of "moral principle."

ok, lani. We haven't been introduced yet. my apologies. Many trolls like to use this technique to discredit a producer. We are in agreement over common core. There are times you can end a sentence with a preposition.
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Welcome to the Gulch.

I am NOT a troll. I am of the 'older' generation that was taught proper grammar. Not like our youth today that will learn NOTHING through common core.

Agreed.

I want one. But then, again, I may have been unofficially dubbed such a person.

for the most part, I approach posting comments from a conversational standpoint. If I have to have my professional writer's hat on in the gulch, it wouldn't be half the fun...

I should also mention that Mrs. Euda very much wants a t-shirt with the words, "I am the grammarian about whom your mother warned you."

Not sure about troll.
Lani is a new gulcher, but her posts don't seem like trolling.

If her point was that, as someone who aims to be a professional writer, I should take more care in my grammar, then she is absolutely correct.

I do fall into the venacular, however, when I post.

oh look-we got trolls for christmas

Thank you for your concern.

Please don't end your sentences with a preposition.

Hi:) Isn't this the same principle that resulted in a builder of aircraft from traveling to a different State? I'm curious. Would you happen to know if the company (the name of which I forget this moment) actually succeeded in moving?

Mike, you might want to try <ironic> or <cynical> font explicitly next time? :)

I seem to recall that some decade or two ago, during one of the Recessions, the NY State legislature actually considered a Directive 10-289 - styled bill, making it difficult or illegal for any firm to lay off workers "in order to maintain stability in the State economy."

I laughed myself silly when I heard that one.
Wish I could find a link to it now...

It goes to show that the workers have no concept of what it's like to run a small business. It's like trying to get food from an empty frig, but they seem to think that money that they don't have in order run the business is there to give them severance pay. To quote Red Skelton, "There's a limit to intelligence, but no limit to stupidity."

I love it.

I... love it I love it I love it I love it I.... LOVE it.

I would have fired them on December 5th and told the world why we were closed.