Ba hum bug! Terry Farrell Piano Tuning & Service Tampa, Florida mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Hall" <keyboard@cysource.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2000 11:52 AM Subject: Non-words > I must get this said before I die. > > Vocabulary is very important in this world, not just to me, to everyone. We > all tend to take more seriously someone who says (for example) "haven't got > any" than we do someone who says "ain't got no". > > The use of non-words like "thingee" in an otherwise technical discussion > totally destroys the credibility of anything else the writer has to say. > Spelling and grammar mistakes are far more acceptable than attempts to > describe a complex part of a complex machine as a "thingee". > > Dave > >
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