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

[Mike Sloane]

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