This odd little series ran back in 2004. It introduces Gene’s female friend “Sondra,” and the point of it all is, exactly what kind of “friend” is Sondra? Apparently she wasn’t a serious friend. After this week of introduction, she never appears again. I’m getting a bit of a late start this week; it’s a busy summer. However, over the next few days I will try to stick with the Sondra series to its conclusion.
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Ha, ‘a’.
as in too many in ‘a’ row.
The Irony.
I for one dislike myself or others being corrected. I type on a tiny keyboard on a phone most of time. Hal predicts what he likes, I rarely proof read a comment.
This blog is Symply a trivial pursuit for me, mild entertainment, a diversion. I give little thought to what I say. Don’t proof or edit.
No one is hanging on anyone’s words here except Jimmy’s. Why should any of us pretend this is a scholarly paper we are presenting?
Most is done while driving on Oklahoma highways as I am now. Ghost is driving Jack, we just visited Llee in Missouri.
Did I mention rough roads?
Frank Cho, has moved on to other things long ago, but I still enjoy following reruns of Liberty meadows. A strange assortment of cartoon animals in a Maryland reserve interact with the veterinary staff. Today’s starts out mocking warehouse stores before going wrong for our hero. http://www.gocomics.com/libertymeadows/2017/06/16
Reminded me of the comments on Tractor Supply being better for real life.
Ruth Anne, thanks for sharing the pictures of your dinosaurs. You did a great job…I especially liked the triceratops and the way you edged the brown with the gray. The points on the horns look challenging to shape but came out beautifully.
Bad Vietnamese food, always disappointing.
Crazy 10 Miles Flea Market is going on this weekend on road from my house to town and going east toward Arkansas.
Ghost and I plan to hunker down and protect the homestead from plundering and theft.
I have several siblings who have learning disabilities. When they would write to me, their letters would have many spelling and grammar errors. I never made any comment to them about it. I was glad they were writing to me. If I wouldn’t correct my family, I sure won’t correct anyone else.
Jackie,
“Why should any of us pretend this is a scholarly paper we are presenting?” To my knowledge, nobody here has done that. Have run into many grammatical/spelling/typo goofs [cannot always tell which] in written and oral scholarly papers in the sciences, which may or may not be free of scholarly errors in the papers’ subject matter.
Closest I have come here is tossing in, or quoting taxonomic names, just to familiarize readers with it. It’s a technique used one way and another, in The Mammals of Minnesota, 1982. E.g., if you look up ‘skunk, striped’, it says ‘see Mephitis.’ Worked pretty well in Mammalogy class.
One might also ask, why should anyone EVER yell at another Villager?
Peace,
Whoops! “… just to familiarize readers with them.”
Laura, I’d do the same with those known to have learning disabilities. I’m grateful that none of my kids do. All 3 are at least as smart as I, and, in some ways, as wise or wiser.
Jackie, “This blog is Symply a trivial pursuit for me, mild entertainment, a diversion. I give little thought to what I say.” Having been reviled and worse here re a reader’s understanding of my intent, I suggest that is an unwise approach.
Peace,
Jackie, your posts are always well written and entertaining. Much good advice comes from you, and some serious wisdom and philosophy too. Don’t sell yourself short! You’re better than you give yourself credit for — too modest perhaps.
We will never learn if not corrected.
If it is a typo we will say “Yep” and move on.
If it is an error we will say “I didn’t know that.” be wiser and move on.
The key is to learn (or relearn) and move on.
Dear emb, I’m glad that you had a good time at the Summer Theology Workshop. How nice it would be if every person in the world spent their summer vacation in such a safe and blameless way.
How to tell that the Asian food you consumed was less than optimal: The stale fortune cookie you ate solely to cover the aftertaste of the food was actually much better than the food.
Meanwhile, the maternal cockles of Jackie’s heart are warm indeed…she is sorting through onesies, baby t-shirts, baby knit pants, romper suits, etc., she bought for her former housekeeper’s newborn daughter…for the second time in 18 months. I suggested perhaps she might get her a book about the birds-and-the-bees.
And the tiny strapless sundress she got Terrie the Getting Better Dressed All The Time Housekeeper makes me warm. 😉
Ghost, here’s what the ex-housekeeper needs: https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/birth-control/birth-control-implant-implanon
Just got in from a star party up a local canyon… it was a total waste of time and gasoline. Clouds blew in just as the sun was setting in spite of the whether channel’s prediction on clear skies and lower temps tonight.
To add to the joy: Despite NPS ordinances for no loud music after 10 p.m., somewhere in that area someone had a wedding reception/dance that went on until after we gave up and left at 11.
In my area of N. Illinois, gasoline was posted at $2.499 or $2.399 per gal. today. I have certainly experienced higher rates, but the cited ones aren’t exactly giveaways.
This site does not like “give-aways” nor “give aways”, so I suppose it is as shown above. At this hour, I am not about to look it up. It is almost time for my sleeping pill, anyway. If anyone knows better, feel free to share that knowledge with me.
Decided to check out Duolingo.com for Greek and have just installed the Greek alphabet on my keyboard. It has got to be easier than Welsh…at least I can pronounce the stuff!
PS: If you are so inclined, make up your own humor about the gasoline cost per guy.
Curmudgeon at least no one here will think we are smart enough to correct you and my Welsh friends would be too polite, despite fact one is a Druid, practicing sacrifice. He told me if he hadn’t killed that white Rooster my carotid surgery would have taken a different turn.
Wishing everyone a wonderful International Sushi Day. Love and toro to all.
Jackie is still wondering how a small town Deep South boy knows so much about sushi.
I have never corrected anyone’s spelling nor grammar, written or oral, unless I was being paid to do so as an editor or writer. It strikes me as the greatest rudeness, not done from kindness or any motivation other than expressing the greater knowledge or superiority of the one doing the correcting.
“It’s a dull man who can only find one way to spell a word,” President Andrew Jackson upon being corrected by a critic for his variable spelling.
It looks like the 10 mile yard sale Jackie talked about might be a washout later. Sky has been solid gray since I got up at 8am. It rained last night before bed too.
Jackie: Andrew Jackson’s retort is clever, perhaps amusing, and reminiscent of Humpty Dumpty’s comment in “Through the Looking Glass”: [http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/12608-when-i-use-a-word-humpty-dumpty-said-in-rather].
It is, however, irrelevant here.
You wrote, “It strikes me as the greatest rudeness, not done from kindness or any motivation other than expressing the greater knowledge or superiority of the one doing the correcting.” You also wrote, “unless I was being paid to do so as an editor or writer.” That gets nobody off the hook. It is just as likely that a paid editor likes to express “greater knowledge or superiority” as an unpaid one. I like to copy edit, and I do it for free, as a service and therefore a “kindness”, at church, the hospital, and occasionally for individuals who appreciate my help. When I did it for pay, many students were grateful, and remain so. Please broaden your perception re copy editing, and please do not impugn my motives.
I think we had best drop this.
Peace,
Jackie, IMHO, it is a greater rudeness to ignore a request for correction.
For the Village curiosity shoppe, there is a photo of Ghost on my Facebook page, along with our brunch today in kitchen. He is eating well and the rural life is growing on him.