HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1988-11-09, Page 5After last week's column I earned a few
)rownie points at home and I hope all you
folks out there who were starting to feel
sorry for hubby now feel better.
My knight in shining armour had to
come to my rescue once again this past
week.
Wednesday mornings for me are very
busy; trying to get to town early, deliver
the papers to the stores and still make cof-
fee club.
Last Wednesday upon arising and glanc-
ing in the mirror I realized something had
to be done to my straight locks before I
could go anywhere. Of course I had slept in
a little too long. My cat has taken to sleep-
ing in also and I can't even rely on him
anymore. Typical male!
Number one son needs his lunch and
breakfast made, I need to shower and curl
my hair. All this was accomplished in a
record breaking time.
Out the door I go, crank the radio up and
start down the road (in the car). A dif-
ferent noise is heard which at first I
thought was on the radio. No, it wasn't the
radio, it was something on the car. gbate
time now, continue on or stop. I stglf3ped,
got out and walked around the car and
what greets my sleepy eyes but a tire with
a flat bottom. Now I am not too bright
around. cars but even I could figure out I
wasn't going any further until this was
repaired. I seem to recall hearing hubby
say something about driving on a flat tire
causing further damage to something.?
Next I had to decide which way to start
1'0 THE EDITOR
Letter receives reply
Dear Sir,
Thank you very much for publishing my
letter in your newspaper. In return, I
received a letter from Mrs. Ira Dickie, a
relative who was able to give me some in-
formation regarding my family. She men-
tioned the Lucknow History Book.
Could you please put me in contact with
someone who could tell me where to send
for the book and how much it costs?.
I very much appreciate all your help.
Yours Truly,
John Gollan
Lloydminster, Alberta
To the Editor:
Excuse me but, I am sitting here in the
province of Quebec, and I cannot believe
my eyes! A letter to the editor from Barrie
has me shaking my head.
O.K. I admit that everything the French
of this country have they have brought on
themselves. But, they do deserve the same
respect as I would hope you would give to
any neighbour.
Now, you have to admit that because of
the very real size of the population and
their effect on the rest of the population
you have to speak French to become prime
minister. If we want our children to have
national possibilities to affect our total
system in any field, we have to have the
sense to open all the doors we can. Only in
this way can the local influence be spread
all over. Yes, this does have to work both
ways.
I am a product of grade 5 to grade 12
Huron County French training, and frank-
ly I am lost m Quebec. It was a useful foun-
dation but the inability to form sentences
and make conversation made seven years
of sufficient marks USELESS.
Immersion is the 80's answer to get into
the 90's. It may not be perfect but ex-
perience tells me that immersion works
better than the 70's answer. Something has
to be done to upgrade the training that is
available.
I will not dignify the letter of October 26
with direct comment. Suffice it to rest as I
have already stated. These people are our
neighbours. As a society,..everything we
English have, we have brought on
ourselves. I had to look twice to be sure I
was reading the Lucknow Sentinel. That
did not sound like the neighbours I
remember and I know are still there.
It is not a DIFFERENT language, it is
ANOTHER language. Think of it in addi-
tion to your vocabulary.
' Stephen T. PritLkhard
Lachine, Quebec
walking. Our road is normally quite busy,
but of course when you need help no one is
in sight. After a brief hesitation I decided
to walk down the hill to a neighbour to use
the phone. They were very kind, the man
of the house offering to change the tire for
me. I said no thank you, hubby is at home
and he will come and rescue me!
When hubby answered the phone he was
greeted with "Hi hon, guess what- I have a
flat." Now hubby is a little slow to unders-
tand verbage in the morning, but he picked
up on this one really quick. (Do you think I
lost any brownie points with that last
remark? )
Back to the car and wait for my knight to
arrive equipped with the air compressor.
One look at the tire and he discovers a hole
in an apparently weird spot. The com-
pressor will be of no use and a complete
change is required. I really felt I should
stand on the side of the road and assist or
make some conversation, but darn it, it
was so cold, I jumped back in the car and
waited for my mechanic to finish the job,
which I will admit did not him very long.
By this time, I am an hour late arriving
in town. Members of the coffee club are
wondering what has happened to me, after
all it IS paper day. The stores in town are
looking for the papers. Two post offices are
calling - they haven't received their
papers. My hair is completely straight -
hanging in my eyes, my temper has boiled
over and hurricane Pat is ready to start
screaming! My ad manager, upon seeing
me blow into the office, is greeted with
Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, November 9, 1988—Page 5
AMBLINGS
by Pat Livingston
"I'll be back after I calm down". '
A quick cup of coffee and a muffin while
letting my friendly, sympathetic hair
dresser curl my locks finally put me in a
calmer frame of mind.
I hate days like that one. When you start
the morning off bad, the whole day seems
be wrecked. I can tell you, I didn't ac-
complish a lot last Wednesday.
Typos
Over the last few weeks you are sure to
have noticed the many incorrect punctua-
tions marks in my column. I really do
know the correct use of exclamation
marks, questions marks and dollar signs. I
have had some comments on all the little
dollars signs showing up at the end of my
sentences. Those little dollar signs were
really supposed to be exclamation marks.
The little 0 were supposed to be question
marks.
At the Sentinel we use a mini disk ter-
minal (MDT). This beast has the alphabet
and numbers in the same place as an or-
dinary typewriter, however, the little ex-
tras one uses (!?$) change depending on
the keyboard arrangement used. For ex-
ample if using arrangement 1765 the ex-
clamation mark is the upper case of the
dollar key, a question mark is uppper case
of the number zero. On arrangement 500
( which is the one my disks were supposed
to be progr' ! tned for) the exclamation
mark is on a different key as is the ques-
tion mark. You are probably thinking that
should be easy to follow, just look at the
screen to be sure. NOT SO! On the screen
when I type an exclamation point it doesn't
show ! ,it shows the percent sign. When I
type a ? it shows an arrow. To make a long
story short, I now have all my disks pro-
grammed to the 500 keyboard, I only have
to program the grey matter between my
ears!
Another point raised recently was a
question of proof reading. Any of our staff
who compose their stories on an MDT are
expected to proof read their own copy. If
stories are typeset by our composing
department in Goderich, another person -
the proofreader - reads and corrects the
copy. Although we do try to be very careful
with our spelling and punctuation, errors
do occur in the copy. When one has com-
posed directly on a screen 6" by 5", read it
through numerous times to see where your
train of thought is going and then checked
it again for spelling etc., it is not too dif-
ficult to miss something. Wednesday mor-
nings when we open the,paper, the error
jumps off the page at you and you wonder
how it could have been missed. This does
nc excuse our errors, but offers an ex-
planation only of how easy it is to make
them.
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