sgtcarl1 Wrote:In my high school years, when I was just a wee lad, I spent many hours proofreading student's theme papers and such.
I found it very helpful to look at everything backward, one word at a time. I don't mean "read" the individual words backward, just start at the end of the sentence, paragraph, page or whatever.
Try it, you'll like it!
You know, that's the exact thing that one of my editors told me how he learned to proofread. he did go on to say, that when he did it that way, he had plenty of time and the things he was proofing were just a few pages long.
shaygetz Wrote:21 REASONS WHY THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IS HARD TO LEARN...
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) After a number of injections my jaw got number.
19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
Just a few of my own that are basically opposite of yours:
- Hey, where can I get some hay?
- They're over there.
- You're thinking your mother isn't tall enough.
- Whether the weather is good or not...
- We're going where no man has gone before
- Did you break the brake?
- Only his nose knows.
- Please shoo the bee off your shoe
The lists seem to give one an endless chance of screwing up grammatically.
Let me ask you, who needs help.
Joe
Don, did you slip that third one in just to see if anyone was paying attention?
Wayne
Jesso Wrote:That said, I live next to a town named Hurricane that is pronounced ur - i - can and people that I work with really say "Jeet? Sqweet?" so I apologize when my grammer isn't up-to-par.
I was told, Hurricane (the town) rhymes with the town next to it, LaVerkin. One or the other town stinks (if I remember correctly) due to a local hot spring. When I lived in Utah, I quickly learned there is a strong local dialect. More interestingly, there were many people whose parents had simply made up their names by altering other more common names.
You're right. I have lived here so long that I start to the think that can is pronounced kin :-)
I would like to refer to a couple of comments that were made by scubadude and doctorwayne back on page2 about peoples reluctance to post pictures of their work. I'll use myself as an example.Over the years after posting on other forums, I have come to realize that there were modelers that took a dim view of not only my layout but of my style of modeling.It got to the point where it wasn't the negative comments that sometimes bothered me,it was the fact that I was just plain being ignored.This led me to either give up on some forums and quit or not bother to post any more pictures.I guess in some respects my skin isn't as thick as I thought it was. I also marvel not only at others modeling skills but at their ability to post really great photos. These are two other reasons why I chose not to post. Perhaps one day I will change my mind but for now I choose to just read posts that interest me and to see what others are doing.
My thanks for the opportunity to voice an opinion. Bob
foulrift Wrote:.....Perhaps one day I will change my mind but for now I choose to just read posts that interest me and to see what others are doing.
My thanks for the opportunity to voice an opinion. Bob
I hope that one day you
will change your mind, Bob. I have found that the folks on most forums, and particularly here, enjoy seeing pictures and are very forgiving of perceived "imperfections". I had a lot of trepidation about posting pictures, too, as I worried that my efforts might not meet the expectations of the viewers. In the end, though, I decided that if
I liked a particular picture, then I would post it and share. It's unrealistic to expect everyone to like your work or to even bother viewing it, (very often, I post over on the MR Forums with a response amply illustrated with photos, only to find that I've effectively "killed" the thread with "too many" photos). :?
In the end, though, you'll have to be comfortable with your modelling results before you're willing to share photos - if it doesn't meet someone else's expectations, though, that's their problem, not yours. Each of us enjoys the hobby in our own way.
Wayne
I didn't mean to suggest that the folks on THE Gauge were critical of others. It has always been quite the opposite. I have found that everyone seems to go out of their (they're, there
) way to say only kind things and offer suggestions when appropriate. I am hesitant to post pictures of my work only because I am critical of myself, and the hardest person to please is me when it comes to anything I do.
As for the original intention of this thread, I agree with Squidbait that it is sometimes difficult to read posts due to errors in grammar, spelling, etc. Where I disagree is that I don't think we should be critical of those errors just as we shouldn't be critical of the level of modeling skill of others.
Wayne,Richard-Thanks for the comments and encouragement.Perhaps I will change my mind to post.Bob
foulrift Wrote:Wayne,Richard-Thanks for the comments and encouragement.Perhaps I will change my mind to post.Bob
I agree with Wayne and encourage you to post whatever you're doing. I have always said that on the Gauge, that one could post a picture of a pile of dirt and they'd get comments like, "Nice start", or "has potential" or even, "Hey, if you do.... you can...." When someone asks for critical opinions, they do get them, but constructive ones as well. Just so you know, we are carrying that philosophy here to Big Blue as well...
I can remember the first picture I posted on the Gauge... Uhh, maybe we shouldn't talk about that, I always try to forget but sometimes things like that never seem to go away.
I came on board a couple of months before the old gauge changed. I have been able to see how the quality of the pictures posted has changed over time. We all have to start somewhere.
I post pictures for people to see what I have pictures of, not the quality of the picture.
I once knew an editor for a magazine that would not publish pictures taken with anything but Kodachrome. IMHO there are lots of snapshots out there that I would love to see.
I began with a Kodak 126 Instamatic camera that really took lousy pictures, but I have actually posted some of them because of the content, and no one has pointed out to me how terrible the pictures are.
Jump in and post, join the fun. Everyone will help if you ask and no one will criticize if you don't ask.
Charlie
Thanks Charlie and Don for the comments and encouragement.Perhaps you guys were right.Just post away.Besides,I have learned a lot from a lot of you guys and have gotten some good tips along the way.So with that said I will be posting on the HO thread as soon as I'm done here. Thanks again. Bob
I hope you change your mind.
Long time ago, I had a website featuring my layout. On it were pics of my two modern locos, SD70 painted like a NH GP9, and C44-9W painted like a NH U25B. I had taken my time painting as acurate as I could, and placing the decals, in the same spot as the New Haven did, as acurate as I could with modern diesels.
Well...a member from the NH Historical scociety, found my website, posted a thread calling my work "groaners" (A groaner, is a comercially sold model, with, in this case, New Haven paint and markings, on a model that the NH never had protypically. Ex: Gunderson Deep Well Maxi-IV cars, with NH reporting marks..or Thomas The Tank Engine, painted like NH's I-5)
My pride was hurt. Even though all the replies were, "They look great!"..."I think the NH would paint their GE's that way if they were still around." I couldn't do anything layout wise for a couple of months. Even called the guy a few choice expletives.
After a couple replies, knocking down the guy that origially posted the thread, he wrote a public apology to me.
Now my feeling is, a little critizism, makes me a better modeller.
