Proofing, because proofing is needed
Oct. 21st, 2009 08:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
slowfoxThe Chair of the Residents' Association has emailed me the draft of the latest news letter, which is a good thing, because a few things have evidently slipped past the spell-chequer.
My particular favourite is the use of 'intimated' for 'intimidated' - it sort of changes the whole tone of the article about the brothel in one of the streets!
One of my new office colleagues (from an office of four, I'm now in an office of three) is something of a plant afficionado - we have a veritable wall of foliage around the desk, which is kinda awesome to behold. I do wonder how quickly he might notice if more plants were added on a surreptitious basis; have this vision of the entire floorspace ending up covered with a dense forest of yucca, ferns and cheese plants :-)
My particular favourite is the use of 'intimated' for 'intimidated' - it sort of changes the whole tone of the article about the brothel in one of the streets!
One of my new office colleagues (from an office of four, I'm now in an office of three) is something of a plant afficionado - we have a veritable wall of foliage around the desk, which is kinda awesome to behold. I do wonder how quickly he might notice if more plants were added on a surreptitious basis; have this vision of the entire floorspace ending up covered with a dense forest of yucca, ferns and cheese plants :-)
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Date: 2009-10-21 01:04 pm (UTC)Well, at least you know what to get him for holiday/birthday presents! :D
Am giggling over the spelling slip. At least that's better than the recent letter I received from our PTO chair (parent-teacher organization) and a recent car ad I spotted in the paper, both using apostrophes for plurals. *bangs head*
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Date: 2009-10-21 04:37 pm (UTC)Apostrophes suffer an inordinate amount of abuse... I saw someone wearing a shirt the other day that said 'If you think your hard enough...' *weepz*
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Date: 2009-10-21 04:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-21 04:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-21 08:13 pm (UTC)Also, we have a local plant called "cheeses" that's related to mallow and hollyhocks, and does not have holes in the leaves, but has seed pods that look like little sliced wheels of cheese. Common names for plants are funny.
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Date: 2009-10-22 07:05 am (UTC)A weed is just something that's growing in the wrong place :-)
I have great difficulty with botany - I'm hard pressed to distinguish carnations from roses, so advanced taxonomy will forever elude me, I suspect.
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Date: 2009-10-22 06:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-23 07:24 am (UTC)The brothel, short-lived though it was, was in the lower (Hardwick end) of Blenheim, apparently, but the operation was cut short following a disturbance apparently triggered by a post-coital game of street football at 2 in the morning...