Especially for Darla

What's really scary is a group I belong to, for editors of legal documents. Mind you, these are people who make their living correcting spelling, punctuation and word usage. On a regular basis, someone sends some fractured post, and the two camps emerge, those who believe that we're "off duty" and don't have to proofread our posts, and those who believe that it's too easy to get sloppy in what we're paid to do, if we get used to being sloppy in our off-hours.

Darla would either have a ball or a cow in that group! Or maybe a ball-playing cow. :)

I often type very quickly and I don't always proofread my notes, so you can mark me guilty as charged.

Having said that, you might want to check the spelling of the word scary.

Lucille>

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(snip of scrambled message that the mind can translate) Amazing HUH? Yeah and I always thought

It is if you do not trust that your audience is interested enough in what you are saying to spend extra time puzzling it out. I know when marking papers, there comes a point when poor spelling (not one or two typos, but, say eight on a page) becomes irritating enough to distract you entirely from what the writer is trying to say. (The same applies to handwriting, or to diction, like phone messages where you cannot make out the number) Dawne

I can sympathise, even though I`m one of those who get really irritated by really bad spelling and grammar. On the other hand it`s supposed to be fun on here and not a spelling lesson. If anyone gets too irritated by the way things are written they only have to ignore them. On the other hand, those who really have something interesting to say would be much more likely to get their message across with a little attention to detail! And does it really hurt anyone to learn something?

Pat P

"Genghis Khan's Wife" >

I'm sorry, we seem to cross communicate--I wasn't arguing with you. I have seen the post before, and it is fun, in the same way optical illusions are fun. And I wasn't intending to say that spelling is the most important thing about communication--just that it is part of it. What can I say???? I am not a Spelling Nazi, I am Canadian (long live the Zed, eh)?????? Dawne, who is NOT one of the people who goes around correcting people's spelling

I usually do iron it on the back , but this one was so tedious i just had enough of it ,,, but it worked out beautifuly , By the way Crochet Doilies get very straight when you put them on the tiled wall ,,,,, mirjam

I have a white bathroom counter which is also very good for drying washed stitchery and things. I can lay them out absolutely flat; they cling to the counter when wet so I can sort of squeegee them out. Don't your doilies fall off the wall??? Dawne

Thank you Dawne , No they don`t fall off ,, I `forgot` one on the bathroom [tiled] wall about 4 weeks ago , it still clings neatly there, as a neat lacey flower. The secret is putting them on the wall , while very wet , and straighning them out with finger tops... mirjam

I wouldn`t call it nonsense, Darla - it`s really quite clever. If you know it annoys you, you must be a masochist to read it "every time!" LOL!

I bet you`re one of those people who correct any misprints/spelling errors in the margins of library books!

Pat P

As a librarian , i was furious when i first saw those `corrections`, and we spent time on looking out for the offenders, imagine my schock when one of them was a very famous important person,,,,, as i confronted him with his `writing` in the book, he said , i should thank him and not scold him...... mirjam

Now there is a unique interior decorating idea---plastering all grandmama's doilies in the shower stall. Dawne

"Mirjam Bruck-Cohen wrote

I was using a book once where some pretentious idiot had added comments and mispelled them. I hope your famous important person at least got his corrections correct. Dawne, who can't even bear to write in her own books

Neither can I! It`s even more uplifting to the blood-pressure when the corrections are incorrect, too! LOL!

Pat P

Thank you ,,, i realy chuckled at this description you gave to my forgeting to take the doilie off. mirjam

Ach Dawne the famous person , made mistakes , [only human] but even if he had corrected something ,,, it still is very offensive... took me years before i dare use a highlighter in some of my books [ when you have patterns with several sizes and it is easier to highlight the one you use.]. I also once knew a person who would write the name of the criminal on the first pages of the mystery books. mirjam

And we had one student who used to color faces of photos in books,,,, mirjam :

Love it, Lucille. As a matter of fact it`s thought very bad manners to correct the grammar of adults, isn`t it - although, naturally, one would do so with children - and only then under certain circumstances, I suppose.

It made me chuckle - I did a little scarecrow design that I named "Scarey". Glad I got it right, anyway!

Pat P