Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]But Jerry, if you implied that I can't spell you would be absolutely correct! :-) I have never been able to spell - while a copyboy at the Washington Post I was turned down for a summer internship position precisely because I flunked the required spelling test. B. D. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Jerry Lehrer Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 6:28 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] you go nan BD I never implied that you cannot spell. I usually am very sensitive to the nuances of the English language. Before I majored in English, I went to high school with your fellow Pulitzer Prize winner, Bill Safire. In fact his mother was my Junior High School English teacher! Jerry bdcolen wrote: > I don't mean that she is windy; I mean that she is gutsy. I use spell > check but sometimes accidentally tell it to ignore something, as there > are so many terms and names it has to ignore. (Hey, I have NEVER said > I can spell. EVER. Never have, never will. Let's see if gustiness gets > through Spellcheck this time. ;-) > > YUP! Just ran Spellcheck, Jerry, and it flew right past gustiness. So > go complain to Bill Gates, not to me. :-) > > B. D. > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Jerry > Lehrer > Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 11:48 AM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] you go nan > > BD > > By "gustiness" do you mean that she is windy, or do you not use > Spellcheck? > > Jerry > > bdcolen wrote: > > > I'm going to agree - with both of you. I don't like her work; don't > > think much of it as photography. But I do admire her gustiness and > > her > > > story telling - I'll just let someone else 'read' the stories. :-) > > > > B. D. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Johnny > > Deadman > > Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 10:05 AM > > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > > Subject: Re: [Leica] you go nan > > > > Funny, isn't it? I've always disliked her work intensely. Ever since > > the Ballad of SD. I don't know why really. I just never found the > > photographs of her friends and their dramas that moving I guess. > > Many of them remind of parties that I went to and left early, or > > didn't, and regretted not having done so. > > > > On Saturday, June 14, 2003, at 09:46 AM, Kyle Cassidy wrote: > > > > > thanks for pointing out the nan golden interview: > > > > > > http://fototapeta.art.pl/2003/ngie.php > > > > > > makes me want to drag my leica out of the closet.... nan golden's > > > always been what photography's about for me -- she's not really a > > > photographer, or at least, she's not a technical virtuoso, she's > > > someone with a story to tell > > > for whom photography has become a vehicle. i don't always like her > > > pictures > > > and and am occasionally repulsed by her subjects but i applaud her > > > storytelling. > > > > > > she's always been a great leica ad for me too. > > > > > > now where is that m6 of mine? > > > > > > kc... > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe, see > > > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > > > > > -- > > John Brownlow > > > > pictures: > > http://www.pinkheadedbug.com > > > > warblog: > > http://www.unintended-consequences.com > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see > > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see > > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html