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AAW St Paul Gallery - New Show

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The American Association of Woodturners Gallery of Wood Art is pleased to present Restful Places - Cremation Urns and Objects at its Landmark Center gallery, January 16 through March 29, 2009. Click here to view the St Paul Gallery page.

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I'd hesitate to "correct" someone else's remarks. It's possible that it's a verbatim transcription, not necessarily grammatically CORRECT, given the circumstances.

Joe
 
Maybe "... and they're certain..." :confused: Still grammatically haywire, but in any event I think the person quoted (Tib Shaw) should be offered first refusal about "corrections."

Joe
 
Correction

Thank goodness for your sharp eyes, fellows! I am mortified by the error, but glad to have been alerted to it.
The corrected information has been posted by the very patient and prompt Ed Davidson, and it looks like it is going to be a really engaging exhibit! Hope you check back later on to see more of the beautiful pieces that are coming in!

http://www.woodturner.org/gallery/RestfulPlaces.pdf
 
Thank goodness for your sharp eyes, fellows! I am mortified by the error, but glad to have been alerted to it.

I think this actually falls under the heading of everyone's a critic, but we do like your participation here - thanks:D
 
What Steve said. The replacement seems drastically watered-down from the original (yes, I saved both versions), but looks more professional now too.

Joe
 
I think this actually falls under the heading of everyone's a critic, but we do like your participation here - thanks:D

I hesitate responding to this at all as I'm not wishing to escalate this thread into anything more than I originally intended with my first post - which was to alert the person at AAW that there appeared to be a couple readability errors in the first version of the announcement.

To trivialize my concerns as "everyone's a critic" is unjustified and following that with "but we do like your participation here - thanks" feels like a condescending pat on the head. I wasn't nitpicking on word choice or document layout or inappropriate writing conventions; I was pointing out what appeared to be transcription errors.
 
Owen,
I think you were right to point out the "transcription error". Reading something like the original version is like fingernails on a chalkboard!
 
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