[Janet Kenny]

Because I'm a grown-up I don't use Spell Check.

The "mistakes" in our scansion are our own and are a jolly good indication of what our poetry is about. Mechanically supervised scansion would send me to the nearest suicide jump. It is possibly the best definition of Hell that I have encountered.

[Ann Drysdale]

Where does The Deep End fit into all this? I thought that was for the more experienced poets who require a more unforgiving level of criticism and who have worked their poems to a higher standard. The fiercer criteria seem to be more relevant there and I'd agree wholeheartedly with their adoption (even though I believed they were adopted already!)

But surely there has to be somewhere for relatively makey-learney poets to try their wings? I don't think many would deliberately post something they knew was crap and there is such a thing as tempering the wind to the shorn lamb. Why have two levels of "Metric" otherwise?

[David Anthony]

"It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.”
--President Andrew Jackson

[Janet Kenny]

Deleted by request.
I apologise for my joke.
Janet

[Maryann Corbett]

Ann, the original and still operative idea behind Metrical is that it's a place to learn. And sometimes we do have newcomers who need if for that, but not always. Janet's right about its use as a testing ground, or a place for early drafts, since the Deep End rubric says "work should be well developed...."

It's also true at times--this changes--that different groups of people congregate on the different boards. I find it valuable to post on each of the main boards, and translation too, once in a while, just to see a wider range of responses to my habits. But this is getting away from the topic of meter and scansion; forgive my straying.

[Janice D. Soderling]

What Petra said. Since only a small minority of two in this thread can understand your post, Peter, I suggest you translate it for the larger community and give the context.

For the record, I deleted my previous post on confusing its and it's because it caused misunderstanding, not because of your mention of the jantelag.

[Janet Kenny]

And we all type the wrong it's/its sometimes when our blood sugar is low. Spell Check wouldn't detect that.

[David Rosenthal]

Do your best. Assume good will. Those take care of a lot of it, I think.

David R.

[Janice D. Soderling]

Nobody claimed it would, Janet.

Obviously I am not talking about typos, I am talking about not knowing the difference; in a broader context, I am talking about a general tendency of not knowing, or not caring, enough about the poem and comments one puts up.

[Philip Quinlan]

Originally Posted by Mary Ann O'Gorman

...I am trying to proofread more carefully, both here and in my submissions (which have also been riddled with typo's...I am flighty and have too many pets asking for stuff all the time.)

Mary Ann

I think you mean "typos"?



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