[lace-chat] Old money (was editing)

2006-02-13 Thread Jean Nathan
Jacquie wrote: The only change in the books that I could see was that as England was now 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

[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

[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