speech recognition wetware is distinctly imperfect also - recognising the speech, yet failing to understand the phrase, you mean?

See my penultimate post.

eh?

T being immediately kittycorner from H: Camp Child Love in Mucuouslovakia specializes in the care, upbringing, and sale of children. In their language, such activity is translated as "tendering"

So once a year they have this conference

Sj: Thank you for your response, but I was sure everybody would understand. Forgive me all to pieces for being unclear. The tenders of needy children would be a cadre of participants in the Institute's work; "tender" meaning one who cares for or looks after--eg, if I am your doctor I tend to your wounds. Thus I am a tender. Those who go to the conference once a year get together as tenders of children but then disperse to their respective homes or institutions to carry on the work of the Institute

tend...to act as an attendant: SERVE...apply oneself to the care of: watch over...to have or take charge of as a caretaker or overseer....syn TEND ATTEND MIND WATCH--Merriam Collegiate

Again my abject apologies of those of you who were confused about my apparent failure to employ the correct parts of speech in every particular

Well, it could be a couple of other things.

If they are coming by the boatload, it would be tenders.

And if they were in the market to buy children it would also be tenders.

If they were more interested in the cooking byproducts of children it'd be renders.

If they were welcoming gymnastics instructors it would be benders.

If they were welcoming auto parts made of kids it'd be fenders.

If they were welcoming both sexes it would be genders.

If they were looking for bankers who deal in children wouldn't it be lenders?

And it could also be eeleomosynary pediatricians -- menders of needy children.

Or even the people who make the needy kids happy, senders. As in, that really sends me.

Lighten up, Dale. I'm the one who didn't go past thinking of the word as a verb. My bad, OK? Of course it does make sense grammatically as a noun. Thanks for your effusive explanation.

Edit: ... and for your elaborate expansion thereupon, TEd!

Anna, TEd: Bless you one and all.

Bless Sj too

Sj: Again forgive me my trespasses. The opening was just too big and tempting to pass up

Indeed incorrigible, I shall forthwith compose a NY resolution to curb my mordant non-sequiturs

Again my profuse apology, I had meant to address it to Anna. There's just no hope for an old guy at the onset of Alzheimer's

I shall endeavor to be more careful, tho there's no guarantee

I have been banned from other web sites for lesser impudence

Your forbearance, guys, is phenomenal
Guys includes gals

lovely post..TED

Aaaaaaarhg, TEd!! Do you mean I got it wrong, wrong, wrong?? Lenders of needy children, of course. I must quickly call the editor.