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Posted By: Woody Quiñones <woody@impactyourarea.com> In Response To: Believe it, Dear Kiddies... YOU ARE WHAT YOU WRITE (MaaMaw)
Wednesday, 7 June 2006, at 12:23 p.m.
WIFE!
English, grammar, spelling and phonics are her strongest points. When I finished writing my home study course, I printed it all out, walked into her and grabbed her favorite RED NAZI PEN.
"Oohhhh Hoonneey, in my best scared surfer voice, would you like aahh read this and like aahh make corrections or whatever?"
Do you remember the movie, The Gremlins? Do you remember the evil gremlin Stripe?
My lovely queen looked up at me, began rubbing her hands together and I swear when she said, "Gladly" in that menacing voice, I had to do a double take. Wow! It was really creepy.
However, to my amazement my first draft only needed some minor editing and of course, COMMAS. "People don't use enough commas. Use commas. Commas are your friends. Be the comma, you are the comma."
Well enough silliness, but you are right. Our ability to correctly articulate in the written word suffers greatly. Let me leave you with a real life experience that just happened here in Wauchula.
There is a a funeral home business in town and the funeral home owner just lost his wife to breast cancer. It was a big deal because both individuals were highly active in the community and well liked.
Well after the funeral, the following week, our local newspaper printed out her obituary. It looked nicely done and written. Except for the part that stated when she was born.
Now I quote, "She was born Jan. 30, 964 in Wauchula, and had been a life long resident of Wauchula." That's not a typo on my part. The paper left off the numeral 1 in the year that she was born. This would make her 1,042 years old.
Thanks for listening
Woody Quiñones
"My Little White Mug"© Home Study Course
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