Re: cookery


"Timo Geusch" <tnewsSPAMMENOT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:8763xlehmi.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"TOG@Toil" <totallydeadmailbox@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

On 22 Jan, 10:11, gazzafield
<rufty_tufty_hoolyt...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Mungo "Two Sheds" Toadfoot wrote:



I've worked in IT support in a school and I have to say that schooling just
isn't the same. How a kid can pass a Higher in English when they cannot
spell or punctuate is beyond me.

....and then they start posting to Usenet.

Or write for the specialist motoring press, mostly on the car side of
things. I just picked up a new-to-me publication[1] that really, really
needs a copy of MS word with a *working* spillchucker and some kind of
copy editor who can read without following the sentences with his
finger.

Call me a foreign pedant but I'm quite surprised just how much garbage
makes it into print these days.

[1] Track and Race Car, if you must know

TRC is horrendous. I've read some of their articles on aerodynamics and suspension, and I read some parts two or three times and still had no clue what the author was trying to say.

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