In which Primo wastes more time on the grammar of the campaign facebook posts

This stuff writes itself.

• Primo
  
• This campaign thing is stressful. [Campaign manager] wants us to work on statements for posting on social media at the last minute. I was up late last night and distracted again this morning. His ideas are good, but his grammar is not so good. Then [communications manager] and [social media person] get involved, and there are too many cooks!
• 1:34pm
  

  
  
  

  
  

  
  

  Me

  
  

  You don't have time for the tiny details!
• [Social media person] needs to be in charge!
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  1:37pm
  

  
  
  

  
  

  
  

  Primo 
• [Social media person] is in charge for the most part, but [communications manager] has good ideas and there is some clashing. Then we argue about silly stuff. [Communications manager] wanted to start a sentence with "But," and I said that it was better to tie two sentences together with a comma followed by "But." Then she thought the sentence was too long, so she wanted to put in a period and start the next sentence with "However." I said that was lazy writing, and of course she thought I was calling her lazy!
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  1:37pm
  

  
  
  

  
  

  
  

  Primo: I finally stopped fighting that battle.
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  1:38pm
  

  
  
  

  
  

  
  

  Me 
• Yeah - let that stuff go. It's not worth losing sleep over (literally!).
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  1:38pm
  

  
  
  

  
  

  
  

  Primo

  
  

  "Guide" should have been singular, of course.
• I found a modern style guides that says it's OK to start a sentence with "However" (at least in informal writing) because everyone knows that it means "Nevertheless."
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  1:40pm
  

  
  
  

  
  

  
  

  Me

  
  

  I mean, of course you are right on all this stuff -

  
  

  but is it truly worth losing sleep over?
• OK - you really are wasting too much time on this!
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  1:40pm
  

  
  
  

  
  

  
  

  Primo

  
  

  If it were up to me, we'd post half as many things but they would be of better quality.
• But the details are important.
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  1:42pm
  

  
  
  

  
  

  
  

  Me
• :)
• 1:42pm
  

  
  
  

  
  

  
  

  Primo I had to spend most of the time. [Campaign manager's] writing needed to be fixed. We didn't waste too much time on the "But" and "However."