Yea, itt shews how unproffesional theese tooners arr, ass thae hav no spill chicker Brian Lawson, RPT Johannesburg, South Africa ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Nereson" <dnereson@dimensional.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2000 4:15 AM Subject: Re: pianotech-digest V2000 #1021 > Didn't anybody go to school? Plurals don't take apostrophes. Dog, dogs, > cat, cats, piano, pianos, not piano's. 'It's' means "it is". "It's (it is) > a nice day"; but, "the piano and its soundboard" (not it's). Wippen, not > whippen. Bridle straps, not bridal straps. Bridal straps might be on the > bride's bra, but not on a horse or in a piano action. Bridle! Rusty things > 'seize up', not 'cease up'. 'Cease' means to stop, desist. Things that > affect something cause an effect, not the other way around. Whack at it, or > give something a whack, not 'wack', which is slang, and short for 'wacko', > meaning crazy, mixed up, as in "wacked." Using, not useing. Those from > non-English speaking countries (which the U.S. is rapidly becoming) are > excused. The foreigners do better with English than the Americans! > I thought the piano ads in the paper were bad ("antique roller piano" -- > a player, I presume. "mohag" -- they meant mahog(any). "Baldwin > Accusonic", "Aerosonic" (it flies), "Aquasonic" (plays under water); > everything but Acrosonic. And the perennial "upright grand" (oh, I know -- > incomplete sentence). Here's another: "Upright piano. May need tuning. > $100 ." What!? A hundred big ones for a piano and I have to tune it too? > Outrageous! >
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