#11525
11/29/2000 3:17 PM
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Browsing the topics I came upon the "new" words.It reminded me of a word used (coined?) by my chum Mr. Helms to describe the regular patrons of a bar. "Dregulars." Anyone heard that before? I found it a perfect picture word! wow
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#11526
11/29/2000 3:49 PM
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regular patrons of a bar. "Dregulars."
But do they wear velvet capes and have long canines?
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#11527
11/29/2000 4:59 PM
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And do they all order Bloody Marys?
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#11528
11/29/2000 9:01 PM
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God, but I do love you people!
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#11529
11/29/2000 9:13 PM
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God, but I do love you people!
Busted! I use Gawd instead of the name of the Diety. (Insert face with eyes raised to heaven in gaze pleading forgivness.) You are correct about gadzooks. Gawd zooks is my made up phrase allowing me to flirt with the profane (as opposite to profanity.)
Who wants to take John Cleese's role as High Priest - "Are there any women here?" 
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11/29/2000 9:25 PM
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I was calling down blessings on you all.
But you are correct, I slipped.
However "God is propitious to me ...my sins are forgiven"
Aren't they?
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11/29/2000 9:33 PM
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However "God is propitious to me ...my sins are forgiven"
Ask Father Steve In the meantime, console yourself by rememering that "to Herr is German."
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#11532
11/30/2000 4:53 PM
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RE : "To Herr is German"...
Var. : To err is human, to forgive is not company policy.
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#11533
11/30/2000 6:41 PM
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instead of the name of the Diety. Is this the patron saint of slimmers, Max?
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11/30/2000 7:48 PM
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RE : "To Herr is German"...
Var. : To err is human, to forgive is not company policy.
To err is human, to really foul things up requires computers.
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11/30/2000 8:04 PM
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instead of the name of the Diety.
Is this the patron saint of slimmers, Max?
While not wishing to make light of such a weighty matter, I must transfer the dollar. A look at my original post will show that instead of the name of the Diety was a direct quote from an earlier post by wow. IOW, you'll have to ask her!
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#11536
11/30/2000 9:16 PM
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Picky! Picky! I did a punny without realizing it ... that's how all my puns originate. I love 'em when I hear/read them but I really haven't the knack. My new glasses are due any day now. wow
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11/30/2000 9:29 PM
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Picky! Picky! I did a punny without realizing it ... that's how all my puns originate. ¡Lo siento mucho! I behaved like a cad. I was gently ribbed for a typo, and instead of taking it on the chin, this bounder seized on the rare opportunity to say "it's not my fault." Such boorishly egregious behaviour is inexcusable - mea culpa!
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#11538
11/30/2000 9:35 PM
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it just goes to show you; always verify your sources before you post *anything here.
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#11539
11/30/2000 9:46 PM
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Such boorishly egregious behaviour is inexcusable - mea culpa!I imagine you'll be forgiven this time, Max, but too many more indiscretions like this and you'll be labelled an egregular.
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11/30/2000 9:47 PM
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it just goes to show you; always verify your sources before you post *anything here.
Abso-ma-lutely. The inner gentleman in me said that I should wear the blame being apportioned for the typo, unfortunately my selfish outer child prevailed, and I fingered wow as the real culprit!
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11/30/2000 9:54 PM
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I imagine you'll be forgiven this time, Max, but too many more indiscretions like this and you'll be labelled an egregular
Justly so, no doubt. What intrigues me is how quiet the agente provocateuse in this little imbroglio (is there an "imbroglietta"?), namely, RhubarbCommando, has become. After unleashing my baser instincts with a gentle jab at a typo I didn't make, Rhuby has slipped back into silence - are you reading this, Loki? Or are you busy carving the words "To the Fairest" on an apple?
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#11542
11/30/2000 11:36 PM
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Or are you busy carving the words "To the Fairest" on an apple?
Are you planning something with Helen?
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#11543
12/01/2000 5:00 AM
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Or are you busy carving the words "To the Fairest" on an apple?
So who gets to go to Paris to find the answer?
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#11544
12/01/2000 12:25 PM
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Max et al.
Don't feel to bad about the diety thing. I recently read a sci fi book by a well-known author (who is so well-known his name escapes me at the moment. Throughout the entire novel, the word deity was misspelled diety. And in this particular novel that was a LOT of times. Several hundred anyway.
I found the author's e-mail address and asked, "Was this an editor's goof or were you making a pun?"
His response, "Oh my God. I did THAT? How would you like to be my editor?" or words to that effect. Several things come to mind:
Where was his spell checker?
Where were his editors, his proofreaders, his agent?
Lastly, if the tone of the author's response is to be believed, I was the first person to bring this to his attention; where were his fans?
This brings me to my point:
I assume everyone who posts here reads voraciously and with catholic tastes. When you read, do you notice errors such as this and how much does it bother you?
To answer my own question, I notice errors like this more and more every year. I think there must be more of them. And it bothers me a lot. I find my eye being drawn back to the offensive line until I have turned the page. My blue pencil yearns to put the proper proofreading mark in the margin, while my mind shouts, "This is a library book, dammit! Get over it!"
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#11545
12/01/2000 2:29 PM
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It bothers me a lot. But unless the book is suffused with them, I don't get too hot under the collar about it. If one of my favourite authors was, in my opinion, being really ill-served by his/her editor, I might think about writing to him/her. But not much else...
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#11546
12/01/2000 3:04 PM
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oddly enough, it bothers me more with fiction. I suppose because of the element of distraction, and removal from whatever suspension of disbelief I have achieved.
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#11547
12/01/2000 3:12 PM
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I agree. With the proviso that most bothersome, however, are books about language, or English!
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12/01/2000 4:57 PM
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Max et al.
Don't feel to bad about the diety thing.
For the Diety's sake, it wasn't me!!
I have never come across such a consistent error as the one you mention, but it would drive me to distraction, especially after my recent experience of being hunted mercilessly for a gaffe I didn't commit. From this day forth, sic shall be my constant companion.
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12/01/2000 11:00 PM
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Dear Everyone,
I am inconsolable about the vexation Max has so nobly endured because of my typical graphical error.
My error, everyone! I wrote Diety instead of Deity in a previous post.
I was probably thinking of that box of chocolate covered Macadamia nuts that's sitting in my "to be wrapped" pile of Christmas gifts.
Believe me, if there was a Deity for diets it would be a very popular Deity indeed.
I for one would be lighting candles daily.
Aloha to you all,
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#11550
12/02/2000 2:08 AM
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>a Deity for diets it would be a very popular
I'm not sure about a deity, but the patron saint of diets is St. Caucus.
TEd
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12/02/2000 2:09 AM
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TEd, if I wasn’t over here and you weren’t over there I would kiss you on the lips. Since distance forbids , I will now erect a statue in your honour. I thought I was the only one who spotted these things. If I find one error, it registers, I hmmm a little and I move on, but sometimes there are so many that it seriously annoys me. You are right, WHERE are the editors? I recently ran across a word I did not know in the preface of a compendium of horror stories. I always read the story before the preface because, very often, the prefacer will give away the whole plot. The prefacer (the editor no less) said the story represented the author’s style since the writing was very elegaic. Not knowing what it meant, and not being able to glean the meaning from the surrounding sentences or the story, I did my usual; I looked it up. I found that it was A) a MISSPELLING of elegiac and B) that it barely represented to style, which was maudlin at best. It looked like the editor was trying to show off his vocabulary. What a bust.
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#11552
12/02/2000 2:22 AM
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St Caucus is the patron saint of dieters? Could this be because in a caucus of politicians so much hot air is being expelled through the mouth that no food can be ingested?
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#11553
12/02/2000 5:49 PM
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St. Caucus
Might I venture to guess that this is one of the hundreds of frivolous saints that our current Pope has canonized?
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#11554
12/03/2000 10:22 AM
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>St Caucus is the patron saint of dieters?
Buzz:
Not dieters, diets. There's more than one type of diet. I must warn you that I am an inveterate punster. Nefandous, according to tsuwm.
TEd
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12/03/2000 10:33 AM
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>TEd, if I wasn’t over here and you weren’t over there I would kiss you on the lips. . . . What a bust.
Drat! I miss out once again. And I notice that I went from buss to bust!!!
All seriousness aside, bel, this has been one of my major peeves for years. And I don't hesitate to track down the authors and let them know. With the internet many of them are really quite close.
Jeff Shaara wrote a book about OUR Civil War. The Vice President in the administration prior to Lincoln's was a Southerner named Breckinridge. He went South, much to the disgust of the residents of the eponymous town here in Colorado, who changed its name to Breckenridge in response to what they considered treason. (How's THAT for a bad sentence???)
Anyway, in his novel, Shaara used the wrong spelling. I wrote him a letter and he responded very graciously with an "oops" and said there were a few other things in the book which got missed, including his saying that John Brown had been hung. I had noticed but figured the name misspelling was of more import :).
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12/03/2000 3:20 PM
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Dear TEd,
Diet : you mean The Golden Bull, Charlie?
(insert gleeful chuckle)
Here we go!
More meanings than you can shake a schtick at.
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12/03/2000 5:43 PM
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>Nefandous, according to tsuwm.
teD, you seem to have developed a real affection for this word. if you actually do like it (and are not just taking shots ;) consider it yours -- now you don't have to credit me any more.
BTW, it was a tough call choosing between nefandous and infandous.
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12/03/2000 8:54 PM
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There's more than one type of diet.
A saint for the Japanese legislature?
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12/03/2000 9:17 PM
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There's more than one type of diet.
A saint for the Japanese legislature?
Or is he just opening a whole new can of Worms?
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#11560
12/04/2000 3:40 AM
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This is the way I've heard it -- "To err is human, to forgive, canine."
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#11561
12/04/2000 4:00 AM
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I, too, tend to notice typos in the books I read. Sometimes they can be very distracting. The really glaring errors seem almost an insult to the reader. But I love books -- the paper, the typeface, the heft of the fat volumes or the cuteness of the small ones, the illustrations, the footnotes -- not just for the plots or the data imparted, and I can't imagine a world without them, as some futurists predict.
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12/04/2000 10:10 AM
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I note that you come from Iowa. I drove across it once. But more to the point, Bill Bryson comes from Des Moines ... he talks about books the same way as you do. Is there something in the soil?
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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12/04/2000 10:12 AM
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Or is he just opening a whole new can of Worms?
... as the bishop said to the actress.
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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12/05/2000 4:47 AM
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Is there something in the soil in Iowa? Generally, field corn, soybeans, and manure from hogs and cattle.
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