05-01-2012, 02:17 PM
[cool][#0000ff]Don't pet the sweaty stuff...or however that goes. I was not picking on anybody in particular. I just have a bit of fun reading (or trying to read) some of the posts folks put up. More important to me that somebody went fishing and cared enough to make a report...with or without good spelling. You do good work.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]A lot of reports are put up while the angler is still excited from the trip, after catching a lot of fish or a big fish, etc. Some posts are made when folks have just got in after a marathon 30 hour round trip to some far flung fishin' hole...and their funny words are excusable. Still others just like to have fun with the English language...and take great liberties with it. It's all good.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Like DuBob, I grew up in a time when we were graded on spelling and punctuation. And we had to submit papers and reports written on real old-time TYPEWRITERS. No deletes or do-overs...or spell checks...or fancy fonts. If you made enough mistakes that you couldn't hide with whiteout or correction paper you had to retype a whole page.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I was the kid that won all the spelling bees. I also developed an appreciation for using words to convey thoughts and ideas...and to be able to put them on a page for others to read. In my working career I was employed to do a lot of writing...both technical and fictional. I also ended up being a proofreader and copy editor for the writings of others. [/#0000ff]
[#0000ff]So...whether it is a blessing or a curse I can look at a written page and almost immediately spot the more glaring errors. That is, on everybody else's stuff...but not my own. I still mess up too.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]A lot of reports are put up while the angler is still excited from the trip, after catching a lot of fish or a big fish, etc. Some posts are made when folks have just got in after a marathon 30 hour round trip to some far flung fishin' hole...and their funny words are excusable. Still others just like to have fun with the English language...and take great liberties with it. It's all good.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Like DuBob, I grew up in a time when we were graded on spelling and punctuation. And we had to submit papers and reports written on real old-time TYPEWRITERS. No deletes or do-overs...or spell checks...or fancy fonts. If you made enough mistakes that you couldn't hide with whiteout or correction paper you had to retype a whole page.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I was the kid that won all the spelling bees. I also developed an appreciation for using words to convey thoughts and ideas...and to be able to put them on a page for others to read. In my working career I was employed to do a lot of writing...both technical and fictional. I also ended up being a proofreader and copy editor for the writings of others. [/#0000ff]
[#0000ff]So...whether it is a blessing or a curse I can look at a written page and almost immediately spot the more glaring errors. That is, on everybody else's stuff...but not my own. I still mess up too.[/#0000ff]
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