In article , Dave wrote:
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:38:48 -0700 (PDT), Bob said:

Leave the Poles out of your feble attempts at sounding credible.

Time to get a life, Bob.

Oh, and BTW the words you were looking for were "racist," rather than
"racest," and "devaluing" rather than "devaluating."

You missed feeble for feble.

Justin.

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"Dave" wrote in message
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On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:47:19 -0000, Justin C
said:

Oh, and BTW the words you were looking for were "racist," rather than
"racest," and "devaluing" rather than "devaluating."

You missed feeble for feble.

I never claimed to be a great proof reader.

Duh! One word, stupid! It's proofreader!

Wilbur Hubbard

On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:14:12 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
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"Dave" wrote in message
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On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:47:19 -0000, Justin C
said:

Oh, and BTW the words you were looking for were "racist," rather than
"racest," and "devaluing" rather than "devaluating."

You missed feeble for feble.

I never claimed to be a great proof reader.

Duh! One word, stupid! It's proofreader!

My ma was a linotype operator and also did proofreading as a side job.
American Medical Journal and Playboy among others.
Hot type, days now gone by.
Surprising how many typos and grammar mistakes get into publications
nowadays. Not that I'm even close to an expert, but I find them
pretty often. And make them of course.

--Vic

On 2008-08-27 17:16:03 -0400, Vic Smith said:

My ma was a linotype operator and also did proofreading as a side job.
American Medical Journal and Playboy among others.
Hot type, days now gone by.

That was my grandfather's profession. Hands were so callused that he
could roll molten lead around the palms of his hands, I'm told. (That
would have been before 1920, so well before my time.)

Surprising how many typos and grammar mistakes get into publications
nowadays. Not that I'm even close to an expert, but I find them
pretty often. And make them of course.

There was something to be said about being slowed down by the existing
stone-age technology. Even on a typewriter, we had to pay closer
attention, as one mistake might require us to retype the whole page.
Oh, the auto-correcting Selectrics (or was it the Olivettis?) were such
a step up.

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"Dave" wrote in message
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On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:16:03 -0500, Vic Smith
said:

I never claimed to be a great proof reader.

Duh! One word, stupid! It's proofreader!

Still smarting over your ignorance of the English grammar Wilbur?



I should smart over being correct? Hardly.

Dave, you should be smarting over having had your public blunder corrected.

So, smart some more over the fact that you used 'grammar' when you should
have used 'diction.'

I hope this helps.

Wilbur Hubbard