j]I copied a web news release in good faith on this Forum. I didn’t think it could be offensive to anyone, but it has been removed. But a personal email stated there was a mispelling that may have made it offensive. Since I used the “C” and “V” memory programs to transfer the material, I’m not sure I am entirely to blame for the mispelling. In any case apoligies.
I never saw it, but now that I’ve read the apology I want to. Nothing makes me want to read something more than when it’s banned.
Oh, was that the case of mispelling Naval as Navel? Are saying that the post was deleted by the moderators because the term crossed some line? I am not sure I follow this.
I don’t know why the post was deledted. All I know is I could not find it to make the correction. And I do know that MS-Spellcheck sometimes does strange tricks on me that I cannot fathom.
I just found it interesting that the Jerusalem Post website would run an article on the 99th Anniversary of the Naval reserve!
My guess is that there was a copyright problem with the posted article, rather than a misspelled word that caused it to be deleted.
Dave: If that’s the worst you ever do …
David,
A phrase appropriate to this situation, and I say it to you, “I’ve got your back.”
Another slang term, and I “resemble” it is: wingman.
There’s nothing I’ve seen in your writings that defers from gentlemanly commentary, intellectualy valid, without vituperation.
Hey Dave, don’t feel bad, it could have been worse. I got a thread locked over on the “Classic Toy Trains” Forum.
Don’t ask.
Wayne
Dave,
Read your post, could find nothing offensive in it, including the misspelling, (for most, it would have to have been pointed out first!).
Not sure if the misspelling or the fact it was paying a compliment to the American Navy was the offense, if the latter is so, then
Go Navy!
Navel warfare can be brutal in close quarters[}:)]
Depends on who has the beer belly…
Dave: There was nothing offensive in the post. I pointed out the typo misspelling because it was funny, and did so with the sarcasm/tongue-in-cheek smilie after. I cannot imagine why it was pulled by our heretofore excellent moderators…
I was another person who was amused by the typo…made a joke that got no closer to the belly-button than the mouth (at least on the outside!).
It used to be that when a post was deleted, the person was written by the moderator, who explained to him the reason for deleting it. You should have been afforded that courtesy…and it isn’t too late!
Dave:
As did a couple of others who have Posted on your new Thread her did. I read it got a real chuckle out of it and decide to respond in a similar vein. As some here know I am a former Marine. So the ‘Navel’ misspelling captured my attention. It just begged for a response…
So a number of long time Posters around here know that you live in Israel, and have retired there. So you are living in a land where English is a second language, and I am sure some of the translations get pretty bollixed up, particularly when using MS Spell Check. and then they go up against programs that are used to block " Bad Words" in Commercial Programs like the FORUM. Personally, I enjoy your postings and hope this little screw up does not sour your for continuing to post here.
It would seem to be the more courteous course of action to warn the Posters of the reasons for Deleting their Posts. To just eliminate it is a poor way to do things. We all have high hopes that the “NEW” Moderator could act in a more professional way than the group of rookies that were dropped on us when Selector and Murphy Siding exited their Moderator Duties.
SO, Dave, I hope it was not my Post that led to your Topic being evicted. Mea Culpa. Fum Kansas! [:'(]
This kind of thing has happened on some pretty important letters I’ve written, and it seems that no matter how thoroughly I proofread my own English, some glitch always shows up. The Microsoft programs I use are all tri-lingual, furnished by Microsoft, Ramat Gan, Israel, and it may be that their English Spellcheck lacks some necessary English. I really don’t know how to address the problem, because the whole Near East is a place where “Things go bump in the Night.” Like my paying for something at a neighborhood store with a price that empties my pocket except for one small-value coin, and then when getting undressed to go to bed at night finding the money miraculously returned to the pants-pocket. Have to treat the store-owner-salesperson with new respect as a magician.
I’m not real sure how a navel became offensive, I mean it’s not like we are talking about showing off a woman’s ankle in public or anything like that!
Dave - I didn’t see the subject post, but I can’t imagine you doing anything offensive for which apologies are necessary.
If it was a typo or Spell-Check goof that was probably unintentional and out-of-context, I’d hope the moderators would either: use their super-powers to just fix it; notify you and have you fix it; or pull it, but notify you about the problem and have you fix it before re-posting it, etc.
Time for someone to insert or link to one of the “spel-chekker” poems, etc. . . . [swg] Here are several:
http://www.latech.edu/tech/liberal-arts/geography/courses/spellchecker.htm
http://cavern.uark.edu/~arnold/Other/ZarOde.pdf
http://grammar.about.com/od/spelling/a/spellcheck.htm (has what appears to be an authoritative history of it)
http://www.etni.org.il/farside/odetospell.htm
I’m more inclined to think that it’s the copyright problem, though. Still, you ought to have been advised, simply so you don’t make that mistake again - and the rest of us too, something along the lines of:
“Post deleted because of violation of Kalmbach’s copyright rules for the Forum”, or similar, etc.
If it’s any consolation, some of the replies here are pretty funny (Ed’s in particular), so it wasn’t all for naught.
( [:-,] Memo to self: Set spell-checker to automatically flag all versions of “navel” . . . ").
- Paul North.
The Jerusalem Post encourages people to pass on their web news-stories to others. A subscription is not necessary to access the news stories, and they are free. They do want credit to be given to the newspaper, which I do. I buy the weekend paper every Friday, because I can afford it, and there are excellent features not on the website. As long as access to the Kalmbach Forums for reading them does not require a subscription, and it doesn’t, the Post will consider the news-stories use as non-commercial and won’t give Kalmbach any problems.
Now here is something. As you know the various email providers often give you the complete email address when you start to type the first few letters of a frequently used address. So then, when i check the complete and accurate email address the provider gives me, do i then get a “Sorry- we cannot deliver…” and find that the address they tried to reach has an obvious error? This has happened more than once! Again…go bump in the night?
It seems to me Kalmbach’s moderators were playing it safe concerning possible copyright issues. In this lawsuit-crazy day and age I suppose you can’t be too careful.
An explanation on their part would have been helpful, to say the least. Dave, I don’t think you’d be offensive even if you tried, which you wouldn’t anyway.
Wayne
Posters on here and other social media like Facebook frequently embed links to relevant articles in newspapers. It surely is not a copyright issue and it actually increases their circulation.