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Bill McCloskey
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Posted 8 Aug 2010 5:54 am |
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...after all what is the point. I'm not going to take the trouble of posting things anymore if the only response is that I misspelled something.
Please close.
Last edited by Bill McCloskey on 12 Aug 2010 6:45 am; edited 2 times in total |
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chris ivey
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california (deceased)
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Posted 9 Aug 2010 9:07 am
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| maybe this lady doesn't have the proper 'jerk quality' necessary for demanding money from old folks homes. ....'E'nforcer... |
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John Macy
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Posted 11 Aug 2010 10:17 am
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Yeah, she sounds like a real mafia type to me....
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chris ivey
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california (deceased)
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Posted 11 Aug 2010 10:49 am
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bill..not to be mean, but my mom would want me to check a dictionary when i'm not sure ...or if i can't copy correctly from the article i'm reading.
enforcer...not inforcer
copyright..not copywrite
they're right there in front of you in black and white. we have enough dumbing down of the culture going on to not want to spread the disease to the youth. |
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Bill McCloskey
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Posted 11 Aug 2010 4:02 pm
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Thanks Chris,
I'll be sure to post even less often than I have been in the future. Sometimes you don't have time to check the spelling or even think about it. The idea was to get the link up. I knew I misspelled it after I posted it, but frankly right now in my life, there is so much going on I didn't have the time to change it. It was a quick post, something I read I thought the group would like.
So, honestly, if I'm going to have to read silly posts about spelling errors rather than a response to the article, to be truthful, I'm just not going to bother in the future. My posting has dropped off dramatically recently because I'm so busy and because of stuff like this.
I don't know. I know I'm kind of tired of it. |
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Bill McCloskey
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Posted 11 Aug 2010 4:14 pm
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Corrected just for you Chris.
Jesus...
this place used to be fun.
There is nothing more boring than the grammar police. |
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John De Maille
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On a Mountain in Upstate Halcottsville, N.Y.
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Posted 11 Aug 2010 5:45 pm
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| Case sensitive sentencing would be a good place to start, also. I know... I'm getting off the topic. |
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James Cann
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Posted 11 Aug 2010 7:31 pm
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| Case sensitive sentencing would be a good place to start, . . . |
. . . along with punctuation, which seems personna non grata with so many people on the forum here, and when called on it by anyone, who often show a short fuse on the burn.
Yes, I'm an English teacher, with a comment I share personally with every student who completes my class: each of us sets his or her own standards for written communication with anyone, from the closest of friends to the world's people, many of whom you'll neither meet nor from whom you'll receive response. Like it or not, these standards are driven by sense of respect of self and others, and that sense shows through the words on the page-- which are all the reader has from you.
So, what will those standards be? |
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James Cann
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Phoenix, AZ
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Posted 11 Aug 2010 7:37 pm
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. . . and now, back to the topic:
As I understand it from several posts on the topic, the musician hired to perform is not the one responsible to pay; it is the hirer who 'causes' the music to be played for commercial use; the musician is only the agent or 'deliverer."
Comments and (especially) clarifications welcome. |
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Jim Smith
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Midlothian, TX, USA
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Posted 11 Aug 2010 8:35 pm
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Spelling and grammar on this forum are significantly better than the other forums I frequent. They are geeky mobile phone forums where power users and programmers hang out.
One would think they would have a better command of the language than us lowly steel pickers, but that is not always the case. |
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Bill Terry
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Cal Sharp
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the farm in Kornfield Kounty, TN
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Posted 12 Aug 2010 6:51 am
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Reading a post with bad spelling and grammar you can usually get an idea what they're trying to say.
Listening to a bad, out of tune band play "Crazy Arms" you can usually get an idea what they're trying to play.
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Bill McCloskey
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Posted 12 Aug 2010 7:51 am
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Carl, I don't think anyone has ever accused me of being inarticulate. In this case, I posted a link to a times article about a BMI licensing agent. The best response Chris could come up with is to correct my spelling of the word copyright.
It is the slow drip drip drip of things like this that have cut my postings to a dribble of what they used to be. (Many would applaud this, I'm sure.)
But posts about Chris and his mother, Hankey, and the other wackos on this site have just worn me down. I find them mind numbing. And frankly, at this time in my life, I don't have the time or patience to deal with it. I'm not leaving the site, but I sure don't have any desire to post here anymore. |
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Cal Sharp
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the farm in Kornfield Kounty, TN
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Mike Neer
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NJ
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Posted 12 Aug 2010 8:27 am
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I work part-time as a proofreader/copy editor for a Wall St. firm (almost 25 years now) and I have to admit, when I'm not on the job my grammar/spelling give-a-crap-ometer is off.
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Jeff Evans
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Posted 12 Aug 2010 11:33 am
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Copyright Enforcers
(Restored for continuity and because it's an informative article about someone doing a harrowing job in order to see that songwriters are paid something for their work.
Thanks to the OP for the link and for the corrected title which is likelier to support interest in the subject matter.) |
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Ray Minich
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Posted 12 Aug 2010 12:32 pm
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| “If technology creates efficient ways to charge commercial users of copyright, then that’s good,” he told me recently, “but what I fear is that we evolve into a permission culture, where every single use of music creates an obligation to pay. |
Put your quarter in the slot...
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Jack Francis
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Posted 16 Aug 2010 2:03 am
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This quote is engraved on Twain's bust in the National Hall of Fame. ....
I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they ..... we didn't ever feel like talking loud, and it warn't often that we laughed, only a .....
I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
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James Cann
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Posted 16 Aug 2010 4:01 pm
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| I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. |
Interesting, Jack. Is the above part of Twain's comment, or your words?'
The line speaks to a very significant reality in language/writing skill: any of us can indeed spell a word any way they like, such as in "Y'all lahk cawnbrid?"--when we know what we're doing. Take a look sometime at the book version of Forrest Gump for an excellent example. This story had to be "spelled correctly" for it to work for anyone who didn't see the movie, and it must have been a hell of a lot of work for the typist who did the manuscript.
Most might well agree that Twain did, indeed, know what he was doing and, for that, also seemed the type who, likely, had a short fuse for anyone who didn't. |
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Earnest Bovine
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Posted 16 Aug 2010 4:10 pm
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| any of us can indeed spell a word any way they like, |
Who are "they"? |
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Jack Francis
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Queen Creek, Arizona, USA
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Posted 16 Aug 2010 6:16 pm
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That quote from Mark Twain was copied...with NO editing from me...by Googling!!
I'm not clever enuff to edit anything! 
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James Cann
From:
Phoenix, AZ
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Posted 21 Aug 2010 1:56 pm
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| Thanks, Earnest. I deserved that and am grateful to get it. |
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James Cann
From:
Phoenix, AZ
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Posted 21 Aug 2010 1:58 pm
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| You, too, Jack. Regards! |
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