On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 05:15:02 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm, Lew Hodgett quickly quoth:
Hell no. It wouldn't pull a sloop, but might handle a SunFish.
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"Never Enough Money" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:
The odds are against that. B&D is a big company, run by Harvard MBAs who've been taught all about business, but have little clue about whatever product they make. Sooner or later, one of them will have the inspiration to "improve margins" by "cost engineering" the product, and the quality will decline.
A difficult example. Today's Volvo is better than the 1990's Volvo, before Ford bought them. But in the 1990's, Volvo was in a financial crunch, and couldn't afford to invest in design & production at a competitive level, so the 1990's Volvos (the 700 and 850 series) were pretty much crap. The 1980's Volvos (the
240 series) were substantially better built cars.John
"Charlie Self" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:
You're definately right about proofreading in modern publications. Editors today figure all that's needed is to run it thru the spell-checker, click on "accept changes" a couple of times, and it's perfect. Meanwhile the text is actually a morass of homonyms, lacunae, and mangled grammar. It sucks.
John
Owed To A Spell Checker
I have a spelling checker It came with my PC It plane lee marks four my revue Miss steaks aye can knot sea Eye ran this poem threw it You should be glad two no It's very polished in it's weigh My checker tolled me sew A checker is a bless sing It freeze yew lodes of thyme It helps me right all stiles of verse And aides me when aye rime To rite with care is quite a feet Of witch won should be prowed And wee mussed dew the best wee can Miss stakes are knot aloud And now bee cause my spelling Is checked with such grate care There are know flaws within my site Of nun eye am a wear Each frays come posed up on my screen Eye trussed to be a joule The checker pours o'er every word To cheque some spelling rule That's why aye brake in two averse My righting wants too pleas Sow now eye sea why aye dew prays Such soft wear for pea seas
Anonymous.
Definitely. Though I keep the grammar check on in Word.
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