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

Bob McNitt nysports at frontiernet.net
Sun Apr 18 16:04:49 PDT 2010


Or someone looking for a "Deer carbinator."

On 4/18/2010 11:00 AM, Mike Sloane wrote:
> And that is another part of the problem, Charlie. These free ads have to
> be submitted on a form cut out of the paper and are hand written
> (usually with whatever pencil stub the farmer finds around the barn).
> The paper won't accept an ad submitted any other way (and has to have
> the mailing label attached to verify that the seller is a subscriber).
> Then they are typed up by entry level clerks at the paper - people who
> are likely not much better educated than the sellers, nor are they
> probably from a farming background. So it probably isn't a big jump to
> mistake the "i" in Galion for an "l". But I have seen some truly strange
> spellings.
>
> I suspect that the paid classifieds are better proofread for accuracy.
>
> Mike
>
> charliehill wrote:
>    
>> 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>
>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"<at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> 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
>>>        
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