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   Message 176 of 1,627   
   pam to SamPiper   
   Re: Verb Tense   
   22 Sep 04 05:12:59   
   
   From: fakeaddress@mindspring.com   
      
   SamPiper wrote:   
   > From: pam fakeaddress@mindspring.com   
   > > But what about when the author profusely thanks her many betas   
   > > in her headers, but the beta'd stories are STILL full of errors?   
   >   
   > You mean like the one who everytime she posts I have to sit on   
   > my hands and not lay into her how much she truly "SUCKS!  Stop   
   > posting, you're not a fine wine and aren't improving with age!!"   
      
   Only one?   
      
   O;-)   
      
   > Ooo ... Bad Sam.   
      
   -D  Though I actually wasn't thinking of really *bad* stories   
   -- just stories rife with technical errors that you would think   
   any beta with a functioning brain would have caught.  (Or even   
   just a functioning spellchecker.)  And yet the errors remain,   
   despite the author's thanking her many wonderful betas for all   
   their fabulous help.  Are these betas recruited from remedial   
   Hooked on Phonics classes or what???   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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