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|    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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