[lace-chat] Old money (was editing)

2006-02-13 Thread Jean Nathan
Jacquie wrote: using decimal currency, any time money was mentioned it had been changed to its decimal equivalent.> Most of us can cope with reference to both LSD and decimal money depending on when the scenario/object is from - we only changed in 1971. I notice several sellers on ebay don't

[lace-chat] Secret Pal Thank You

2006-02-13 Thread Carol Adkinson
Hi to my Secret Pal in NZ! I was so pleased to receive the goodies this morning after a not-too-good start to the day! The rose scented bath stuff, and the silver sugar star were looked at with envy by my 4 - year old grand-daughter - she is into pink and purple in a very big way and is training

[lace-chat] Re: Editing (was: favourite authors)

2006-02-13 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On Feb 12, 2006, at 21:46, Martha Krieg wrote: Ah, but when you put your text into Word, the spell-checker squiggles under the "colour" words, I don't know what my writing program is now -- Word, Word Perfect or something else entirely -- nor where its spell-checker lives. But I do know that

[lace-chat] Re: Editing (was: favourite authors)

2006-02-13 Thread Martha Krieg
T, you always leave me rolling on the floor with your descriptions of language issues! I didn't see a problem with the "victim" example - youngest/smallest children are often vulnerable. However, I do frequently run into a problem where two current grammatical shibboleths occur at the same t

[lace-chat] Writing (was: Editing )

2006-02-13 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On Feb 13, 2006, at 23:05, Martha Krieg wrote: T, you always leave me rolling on the floor with your descriptions of language issues! Always happy to be of service :) I didn't see a problem with the "victim" example No? Let me quote it again: "As the smallest child in the family of 5, her