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Here is a slogan a client company has adopted:
I can relate by maintaining strong relationships
with customers, suppliers, and each other.
In my mind there is something wrong, but I can't explain it. Any ideas? Anyone agree?
  

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Usenet Here is a slogan a client company has adopted: I can relate by maintaining strong relationships with customers, suppliers, and each other. In my mind there is something wrong, but I can't explain it. Any ideas?

  • Usenet Here is a slogan a client company has adopted: I can relate by maintaining strong relationships with customers, suppliers, and each other.
  • In my mind there is something wrong, but I can't explain it.
  • Any ideas?
  • Anyone agree?
  • How can "I" do anything with "each other"?
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UsenetHere is a slogan a client company has adopted:
I can relate by maintaining strong relationships
with customers, suppliers, and each other.
In my mind there is something wrong, but I can't explain it. Any ideas? Anyone agree?
How can "I" do anything with "each other"? That's the main problem -- but understanding what they mean by "relate" is a
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[nq:1]Here is a slogan a client company has adopted: I can relate by maintaining strong relationships with customers, suppliers, and each other. In my mind there is something wrong, but I can't explain it. Any ideas? Anyone agree?[/nq]
What other than it's gibberish you mean?
"Relate" needs an object and there isn't one.
The sentence also says "I ... maintain strong relationships with
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[nq:1]Here is a slogan a client company has adopted: I can relate by maintaining strong relationships with customers, suppliers, and each other. In my mind there is something wrong, but I can't explain it. Any ideas? Anyone agree?[/nq]
I like the second comma. I also like the slogan, because it would make my life simpler. It means I could forget about this company and go on to other companies
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[nq:2]Here is a slogan a client company has adopted: I ... wrong, but I can't explain it. Any ideas? Anyone agree?[/nq]
[nq:1]What other than it's gibberish you mean? "Relate" needs an object and there isn't one. The sentence also says "I ... "each other": each other is a reciprocal arrangement. It has an Oxford comma in it. Not necessarily wrong, but unusual.[/nq]
The Oxford/Harvard/seria
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[nq:2]Here is a slogan a client company has adopted: I ... wrong, but I can't explain it. Any ideas? Anyone agree?[/nq]
[nq:1]I like the second comma. I also like the slogan, because it would make my life simpler. It means I ... this to your client without antagonizing him? Are you the advertizing company or the bottled-water delivery company? Or something else?[/nq]
I'm writing training f
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[nq:1]It has an Oxford comma in it. Not necessarily wrong, but unusual.[/nq]
I prefer it. Urban legend has it that dropping the comma was done only to save ink and space.
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Mike Lyle filted:
[nq:1]And a slogan has to be short, or at least instantly grokkable: "Excelsior!" or "Can do" or "Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité". I suppose these turkeys could simply cry "We relate!" (I'd normally charge about a thousand quid for that.)[/nq]
The motto of the best-researched branch of my family tree is one word in Latin that translates to five in English....r

"Oy!
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[nq:1]Here is a slogan a client company has adopted: I can relate by maintaining strong relationships with customers, suppliers, and each other. In my mind there is something wrong, but I can't explain it. Any ideas? Anyone agree?[/nq]
Agreed.
I can't maintain relations with each other, unless I have multiple personalities.
Try we.

Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
We
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"Steve Hayes" (Email Removed) skrev i melding
[nq:2]Here is a slogan a client company has adopted: I ... wrong, but I can't explain it. Any ideas? Anyone agree?[/nq]
[nq:1]Agreed. I can't maintain relations with each other, unless I have multiple personalities.[/nq]
"I wish I were two kittens; then I'd play with each other."
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Tue, 2 Mar 2010 15:55:11 -0500 from Tim Murray :
[nq:1]Here is a slogan a client company has adopted: I can relate by maintaining strong relationships with customers, suppliers, and each other. In my mind there is something wrong, but I can't explain it. Any ideas? Anyone agree?[/nq]
1. "Relate" needs a prepositional phrase relate to whom or what?"I can relate" is 1970s hippie jargon for "

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