Yes, your taxes are due. And you should use good grammar. Today is the 50th Anniversary of the beloved? notorious? Strunk and White, “Elements of Style.” If you think of taxes and writing, it’s a big day for lawyers.
In my former firm, a great percentage of my time was spent “correcting papers” — otherwise known as proof-reading letters and motions written by associates who either never knew or quickly disgregarded how to write. That was not a practice of wielding picky sentence formation rules, it was avoiding embarassment for the firm. Fortunately, those days are over; that said, poor habits abound when you post on two blogs a week, so nobody is perfect.
The ABA brought this anniversary to the forefront and you can read their take in Choose Your Grammar Battle and Take a Side. They put a comma in their title while I left it off. Who is right? But the mainstream media isn’t as superficial as one might seem. The might USA Today likewise recognized the day in Elements of Style, Still Fashionable After 50 Years.