Well Marta, I'd certainly agree with anyone who suggests that we live
too fast ... it's especially too fast as we move slower. In her last
years, my Grandmother moved at the speed of life, which is why, at 93,
she left way too soon.
But on the issues of typos, well, we shouldn't really beat ourselves up
too severely. We're human beings and part of the skill of being one of
us is that we have the ability to see what we want to see, which is
usually what we expect to see. It doesn't matter if it's words, faces
or stars in the sky.
For the more amusing and newsworthy cases, there's a word called
"pareidol."
On the GraphicConverter thing, perhaps it would be useful for you think
of it this way .... a picture can be presented in any of several
languages ... a thousand words,, no doubt. Each language has its
advantages, as each is richer in its ability to express particular
types of detail or more prone to efficiency. The GC program translates
between the various graphic languages.
Bill
On Sunday, July 10, 2005, at 09:31 AM, Marta Edie wrote:
> Bill, I love that I am not the only one. I keep wondering: is it the
> e-mail bit or is it age? Are we living too fast? I've done the hear-
> here mix and the their- there one too often lately, and why is it
> that we see every misprint in the paper or somebody else makes, but
> can't proofread our own stuff until it comes back to us (printed out
> or in an e-mail) and then the typos seem to just spring right into our
> eyes?- And by the way, I am so lost n the Graphic converter discussion
> that I seem to have been converted into a scaled down map. I did take
> a peak at the Lemke website, but there on the first page it advertises
> the holidays in the Austrian Pitztal and St. Anton, so I left the
> graphic converting right there.
> Marta
> On Jul 9, 2005, at 22:54, Bill Holt wrote:
>
>> In case you were wondering, yes, I actually know all of the cases of
>> "there're." There's they're, and thur. Thurz tha-ya, and themer.
>> OK, maybe I don't really know them all, but thatza 'nuff. And that's
>> about all of that that I think I can thunk about it right now.
>>
>> Bill Holt (signed so no-one else gets the blame.)
>>
>> On Saturday, July 9, 2005, at 05:51 PM, Bill Holt wrote:
>>
>>> ... until there're actually about to hit the shelf. ...
>>
>>
>>
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