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| Thread ID: 51002 | 2004-11-08 20:56:00 | Apology to d.murray | 45South (4769) | Press F1 |
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| 289638 | 2004-11-10 07:59:00 | I had that sent to me a while ago. It does work, amazingly, but having correct grammar and sentence construction helps a lot. Whilst we are on spelling here is The Spell of The Blues (www.redhotjazz.com), the Dorsey brothers, 1929. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 289639 | 2004-11-10 08:12:00 | Yes seen that one Wal, gets you thinking doesn't it, like cutting the bottom half of the words off, you can still read it (as long as spelling and grammar are ok). The critical thing, as has already been said, is to have some punctuation and the first and last letters in the correct spot, but also to have all the letters that belong in the word there somwhere. Leave some letters out or replace them letters with some that don't belong and it gets a much harder to read. Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 289640 | 2004-11-11 00:05:00 | But it's a hell of a lot easier to read if it is (a) spelled correctly, (b) punctuated correctly, and (c) grammatical. You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's curs'd hard reading. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 289641 | 2004-11-11 00:08:00 | breeding? I would love to see the logic behind such a notion. |
metla (154) | ||
| 289642 | 2004-11-11 00:16:00 | Logic? It's not a notion, it's an illustrative aphorism. I see that it has been attributed to Alexander Pope, Sheridan and more dubiously to B. Franklin. (I favour Pope). | Graham L (2) | ||
| 289643 | 2004-11-11 00:23:00 | notion:A belief or opinion, aphorism:A tersely phrased statement of a truth or opinion Anyhow, I would still like to see how breeding and spelling are intertwined, I'm sure it must be saturated with the political correctness and non-judgemental thinking that prevails here? And of course have none of the elitist notions that i am so fond of seeing... |
metla (154) | ||
| 289644 | 2004-11-11 00:48:00 | Oooeerrrr Metla, your cloth cap is showing. Four legs good, two legs bad. ;) | Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 289645 | 2004-11-11 00:56:00 | I take pride it not thinking in such a fashion as demonstrated in this thread,and as personfied in the four legs comment. The atitudes and notions you hang off how others spell is quite sad. |
metla (154) | ||
| 289646 | 2004-11-11 01:02:00 | Breeding: Quote; "Socially, one is said to have "good breeding" if one observes and exhibits the etiquette, proprieties and social mores of the society in which one lives. Also used more exclusively to denote one who comes from a family of the "correct" social class (usually a wealthy class) and exhibits the manners, education, and other characteristics appropriate to that class." About Jane Austen from a review of Pride and Predudice: "Though she frequently satirizes snobs, she also pokes fun at the poor breeding and misbehavior of those lower on the social scale. Nevertheless, Austen was in many ways a realist, and the England she depicts is one in which social mobility is limited and class-consciousness is strong." So, there are those who are born to have to keep touching their forelocks, and then there are those of us who slightly nod in acceptance of that subservience shown to us :) |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 289647 | 2004-11-11 02:01:00 | So-called "good breeding" is irrelevent nowadays, except for maybe horse racing stock . Acceptable and unacceptable behaviour is found in all levels of human society . In my view it has been replaced by "political correctness" which is proving to be a similar pain . Only people who wish to show superiority use the "good breeding" label . [usually the nouveau riche nowadays] . If it makes them happy so be it . Life goes on . |
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