When the IBM Selectric was the top of the line in the 60s and 70s, a rumor went
around that there was available on the aftermarket a character ball with a
"blur key." It would imprint on the page what looked like an accidental
illegible smudge. To avoid making an embarrassing mistake with the i and the
e, one could just hit the blur key twice. I don't know if the rumor was true
or baloney (bologna?), but it was a classy idea.
Meanwhile, eerie is often a good substitute for weird. I would have suggested
bizarre but who can remember how many Zs and Rs there are? Sort of like
Cincinnati . . . .
Ted, KN1CBR
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Message: 18
Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 10:15:57 -0700
From: Fred Jensen <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] New wierd K3s behavior
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Decades ago, a good friend who was a Royal Lao Air Force officer asked
me if I would assist his daughter with English in preparation for her
secondary school admissions examination.? I realized early on that I was
heading for failure while we were on formation of plurals ... dog/dogs,
cat/cats, person/people, goose/geese, moose/moose, sheep/sheep, ...? The
Lao language has no plurals so we were starting from scratch.? It was at
least an order of magnitude harder than O Chem and we hadn't even gotten
to "i before e ... or not, you choose."
73,
Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County
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