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To: nopardons

Well when you see gross error....sigh. It’s hard not to comment.

I get in too much of a hurry because I’m always trying to do about 11 things at once. Even now.

So I make a lot of typos.

But a news organization, they could maybe, dunno, hire a few editors.

I remember at one job when there was a stern letter from the back office with the ending:

“I except your cooperation!”

Not “expect” but “except” so I guess we didn’t have to cooperate at all.


12 posted on 10/07/2019 12:03:14 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

And here I thought ‘except’ was a homonym for ‘accept’ and wondered why he wasn’t demanding cooperation, instead of merely accepting it.
I’m sure you’ll take exception to this! :-)


27 posted on 10/07/2019 3:45:41 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: SaveFerris
Typos are understandable ( in posts ) and I never point those out.

Some spelling errors drive me up a wall, but using the WRONG word, well...that's inexcusable; especially when it is one that means the exact opposite of what the writer meant! And this is not an eggregious mistake on forum site, but a published article!

50 posted on 10/07/2019 12:59:19 PM PDT by nopardons
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