[BrandonSternfield]

Their = Talking about someone's possessions.

REW has a well built site. Their site is very good.

They're = Contraction meaning They are.

A:Where did John and Joe go?
B:They're heading out to lunch.

There = Location

A:Has anyone seen my stapler?
B:Yes, isn't that your red stapler over there?

[Smuck]

We had a client make a request for river property listings. We responded and asked for a few more details and/or clarification. This is the response exactly as the client sent it:

2 Bed rooms we would like it more re moat we are not going to have a lot to retire on. I no you would like A $ # but I don't have one yet. So I better play it safe and keep costs down .I plain on paying cash. And because we love the water and have not been able to boat and fish much we want to boat much as we can when we retire. We just bot A river jet by custom weld so we are planing for the water any rivers big would be better'

Do ya think I should turn em on to this thread?

[BuyHawkeye]

Originally Posted by Smuck

Do ya think I should turn em on to this thread?

Nope...

I once thought I could reform a chief of mine. I had him read one of the evals he had written for one of our troopers--nearly incomprehensible. He read it EXACTLY as he meant to write it. Didn't miss a beat. Didn't understand the problem.

[seogerry]

Originally Posted by BuyHawkeye

I once thought I could reform a chief of mine. I had him read one of the evals he had written for one of our troopers--nearly incomprehensible. He read it EXACTLY as he meant to write it. Didn't miss a beat. Didn't understand the problem.

How frustrating! What's worse is when someone is criticizing YOUR writing, and they read it aloud BADLY, and it sounds worse than it is (seeming to prove their stupid point).

[seogerry]

Thanks to you both - I already updated the original post - now we have it twice! That's good, though.

[sdhomes]

Elmore Leonard's "Ten Rules of Writing"

[Sam Dodd]

Ill be the first one to admit, I don't really know any of these rules.

[sdhomes]

Sorry, I had the link to the comment page, not the original post.

[Saodavi]

Spell Check Poem
a.k.a. -The Pullet Surprise Can Did Ate

(Read it out loud!)

Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea,
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight for it two say,
Weather eye and wring oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long,
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.

To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should bee proud,
And wee mussed dew the best wee can,
Sew flaw's are knot aloud.

Eye have run this poem threw it
Your sure reel glad two no,
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.

-Sauce unknown

[Oaklandhomespecialist]

That was good!