Could Everyone Take a Minute [to read this please]

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Genea
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since 1999-06-15

Posts 321
USA

0 posted 1999-08-08 10:22 PM

Could everyone take a minute
And take time to check
Their postings for typos -
Then you won't have regrets.

My pet peeves is this -
Words that aren't spelled rite.
I don't mind lonnnnnnnng postings,
Or verse that's heavy or light.

I'll take my own advice
And promise to try hard
To post a poem cOrReCtLy.
Could everyone now start?

:-) hehe

Poetwheel
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since 1999-07-07

Posts 208
Canada

1 posted 1999-08-08 10:30 PM

Lyked the peom. I shall endavor to make my speeling just rite from now on.

PW

Genea
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since 1999-06-15

Posts 321
USA

2 posted 1999-08-08 10:34 PM

PW....gud...but u wern't the won I was tawkin abbout. lol

Alwye

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since 1999-06-16

Posts 3850
In the space between moments

3 posted 1999-08-08 10:36 PM

I wil be sure to speel everything rite more often now, Genea.

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*Krista Knutson*

"Your kiss upon my face feels like a brush with grace, baby thats all it takes to take me higher..." SHeDaisy

redwriter1
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since 1999-07-22

Posts 480
Franklin, TN

4 posted 1999-08-08 10:52 PM

ummmm xuse me?...
what's the really importnat thing??

being correct?? or being understood??

I've read hundreds of mis spelled childrens poems... and it didn't distract me from the meaning at all...

(geesh)...

no smoking no drinking no mis-spelling section.. is over here ~~~~>

(that's a joke by the way)..(grin)

RainbowGirl
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since 1999-07-31

Posts 3023
United Kingdom

5 posted 1999-08-09 02:49 AM

Just a thought...:-))

I imagine that to post
something that's emotional
is quite hard for some
and if they stop
to check their spelling
they may take fright
and we would miss
the view into their soul

But it's just my way of thinking (as she checks her spelling ..)

Hugs

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You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Genea
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since 1999-06-15

Posts 321
USA

6 posted 1999-08-09 08:54 AM

redwriter - i understand more correctly if i don't have to stumble over misspelled words. And it is a good habit to get into. Just sharing my pet peeve with everyone. I am sure i misspell sometimes too. I am more concerned with the habitual misspellers, and the poems that are teeming with poor little words that have missing/extra letters.

Rainbow....my view into their soul is disrupted by my brain having to stop and decipher what word is supposed to be there.

Thank you both for taking time to read my poem.

:-)

[This message has been edited by Genea (edited 08-09-99).]

Sue
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since 1999-08-04

Posts 383
France

7 posted 1999-08-09 09:02 AM

I'm with you all the way, Genea, trying to decipher bad spelling, typo's and lack of punctuation makes reading hard going for me, too. Good one!

LngJhnAg
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since 1999-07-23

Posts 3508
Boot+Kitty=Poetry in motion

8 posted 1999-08-09 09:58 AM

oh oh - I've gotta feeling lil Genea is talking about me .

When looking into some souls, the less you see the better it is for everyone involved in the peep show. (Now! Where DID I leave my flashlight?)

Genea
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since 1999-06-15

Posts 321
USA

9 posted 1999-08-09 01:15 PM

Sue,

Yes, i agree......and i don't mind one typo or even 2 in a piece......it's the ones with a typo per line that is my pet peeve. AND i am not talking about the common computer shortcuts like 'lol' or 'u' for you and such.

And LngJhn....i don't name names. :-)

I guess i just feel that if folks are proud enough to post their works, their souls on here, they would take the time to double check before they click "Post".

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