[AT] Some ads from the 4/17 Lancaster Farming

[charliehill]

Mike I think we are all aware of how the mistakes happen.  It's still fun to 
make jokes of it.  Am I the only one that noticed it said Gallon grader and 
not Galion?

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Sloane" <mikesloane at verizon.net>
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Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2010 6:38 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Some ads from the 4/17 Lancaster Farming


>I need to remind folks from time to time that many of these ads are
> posted by Amish who have only had limited education and, for many of the
> older ones, English is a "second language". So you wind up with a lot of
> phonetic spellings, like Ford End tractor (which I have seen more than
> once). How a grader's "scarifier" became a "clarifier" I cannot imagine.
>
> Mike
>
> Alan Nadeau wrote:
>> Took me a while to figure out that Antic Jake Hammer probably decodes to
>> Antique Jackhammer.
>>
>> Literacy can be such a rare thing.
>>
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