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

[Charlie V]

I am pretty much a daily reader of the local Craigs List farm and garden
category.  Almost constantly one does not have to look far to see strange
spellings and murdered words.  I often wonder if many are just typos or if
that many people are grammatically challenged.  I strongly suspect that some
are done deliberately to grab the readers eye to the particular ad.
Whatever works.

Charlie V in WNY

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Bob McNitt <nysports at frontiernet.net>wrote:

> 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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