Klarinet Archive - Posting 000307.txt from 1998/04

From: "Buckman, Nancy" <nebuckman@-----.us>
Subj: RE: Loosing and losing
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 12:30:23 -0400

I think what I meant to say was that if you don't like seeing mistakes
in the copy then make sure yours is correct before you criticize
another's. Keep smiling everyone.

Nancy

Nancy Buckman
Anne Arundel Community College
Arnold, MD USA

> ----------
> From: Larry Paikin[SMTP:larrypaikin@-----.net]
> Reply To: larrypaikin@-----.us
> Sent: 6. huhtikuuta 1998 17:42
> To: klarinet@-----.us
> Subject: Re: Loosing and losing
>
> give the governor a hurumph!
>
> Bill Hausmann wrote:
>
> > At 11:14 AM 4/6/98 -0400, Nancy Buckman wrote:
> > >Heaven help us all, but what ever happened to proof-reading?
> > >
> > >Nancy
> > >
> > I think we should be willing to accept a somewhat lower standard for
> e-mail
> > than we might wish to uphold for publication. Typos will slip
> through now
> > and then, and if we don't have the dictionary readily at hand it is
> > unlikely to cause the destruction of the universe. So until e-mail
> > programs universally include spell-checkers and grammar-checkers, I
> vote,
> > even against my own idealized vision of a grammatically perfect
> world, that
> > we continue to allow errors in postings, even while we privately
> deplore
> > them. Just remember that our written expression is the only way we
> can
> > present ourselves in a forum like this. If we appear uneducated in
> our
> > writings, our opinions will consequently be devalued by the readers.
> In
> > short, let's just do the best we can, shall we?
> >
> >
> ______
> > Bill Hausmann
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> >
> > If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.
>
>
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