BirdForum is the net's largest birding community dedicated to wild birds and birding, and is absolutely FREE!

Register for an account to take part in lively discussions in the forum, post your pictures in the gallery and more.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="WJC" data-source="post: 3167952" data-attributes="member: 25191">Hi Jerry:I can assure you no one wants to see this sucker outta the house more than me; I have other things to do—some with money attached. Last week, I finished almost a month of scraping out the remaining vestiges of things I had been adding to please the various publishers.As that great American sage … Ricky Nelson, said:“You can’t please everyone, so you have to please yourself.”—Garden Party, 1972Even as I address some comments on BF, and handle a number of “volunteer” responsibilities for a number of organizations, I’m still working away at the book.Now I’ve started editing for my personal screw-ups and poor grammar choices—you know: too many commas, “thats,” and the like. It’s so embarrassing. After recently posting a post of MODERATE length—that I had already proofed in the Word—I went back through it twice after posting to change 12-13 errors that the brain had refused to catch. For example: in my memo above (#94) I said “that” when I meant “than.”This becomes the. (And, when I wrote that, I spelled THIS as TIS.)Within becomes withing.And sometimes I’ll leave two or three words in a row out of a sentence.‘Fat lot of good 10 years of college did me! It’s maddening. Now picture my difficulty in trying to proof an 80-page—without photos and captions—m/s!? |<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown    :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" />|</blockquote>

Verification