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To: Guenevere

Seems like more than a spelling error. If you did it, I might let it slide. You don’t have an editor. I saw “baited breath” in a story the other day. Is that a spelling error?


46 posted on 05/27/2018 7:34:56 AM PDT by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitcwhes.)
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To: gundog; Guenevere

Couldn’t that be taken as

‘Hillary, MEET Boris, your hangman, he will be —when you MEET again, —METING out justice?’

Two at a time and this one for your horse.

Blazing Saddles


52 posted on 05/27/2018 7:45:49 AM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)""If bacon kills you and smoking kills you, How come you smoke bacon to cure it?")
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To: gundog
Agreed, it's not a simple spelling error when the writer fails to understand words have meanings.

Pointing out that a professional writer doesn't comprehend basics isn't quibbling.
Lack of precision in language usage blemishes that writers credibility.

58 posted on 05/27/2018 7:55:19 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Make American Intelligence Great Again.)
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To: gundog

“I saw “baited breath” in a story the other day.”

I could sight other examples, but it’s a mute point.


82 posted on 05/27/2018 10:19:10 AM PDT by enumerated
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To: gundog

That editor is not much of a roll model, I daresay...


100 posted on 05/27/2018 4:53:37 PM PDT by OKSooner (Don't be a Fudd.)
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