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Post by willtalk on Jul 21, 2019 17:01:52 GMT -8
I am also very critical of the decline in proper English language usage in our society. I cringe every time I push a crossing button and it says " Proceed with caution. Vehicles may not stop". However, the double use of the word "not" in this case was clearly not a grammatical mistake, rather either an oversight, computer or printing error.
As I mentioned in a previous post, print media is struggling to survive. They are being forced to cut costs and the result is often print errors that are not corrected before they hit the street. They have to cut costs somewhere. I personally would rather read a newspaper that prints more local news with a few mistakes, rather than one that takes their news exclusively off the national wire.
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Post by fishwrapper on Jul 21, 2019 22:33:01 GMT -8
As I mentioned in a previous post, print media is struggling to survive. They are being forced to cut costs and the result is often print errors that are not corrected before they hit the street. They have to cut costs somewhere. I personally would rather read a newspaper that prints more local news with a few mistakes, rather than one that takes their news exclusively off the national wire. As much as I value the role of the local newspaper as an integral part of the foundation of the fourth estate, and as much as I generally agree with your sentiment, it is nevertheless quite terribly distressing to instead find a local newspaper on my drive each morning with more mistake and a few bits of local news. Somehow, and I do credit the extra effort this must take, they (the Gazette Times - all the Linn County news you want and/or need in Corvallis delivered to your door each day!) manage to extend their standards of quality to the stories ripped from the national wire, or those reprinted from OSU Athletics press releases, and degrade those articles to fit as part of a whole. |
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Post by willtalk on Jul 22, 2019 5:49:55 GMT -8
The Lodi News Sentinel has never been on the same level as the Gazette-Times. Why! because it has never ever been a daily paper. The local paper was the Stockton Record which at one time covered not only Stockton but also the local news of the smaller towns surrounding it. Tracy, Lodi, Manteca, etc. Even the Stockton paper is almost ready to fold. They just do not get the advertising money to cover the cost of printing. Even the two major Newspapers in SF had to merge to survive. I strongly suspect that the situation is somewhat different in Oregon than it is in California. People tend to be less regional here so there is less demand for local news.
I don't read the Lodi paper except sometimes when I go to the library and have some time to kill. I don't even read the Stockton Record or the SF Chronicle Examiner. I get most of my news on line. My exposure with the Sentinel is basically when someone posts it on the internet. I do miss the time when the local papers printed more local news. I don't live in Lodi so my defense of their paper is not based on local pride, rather on the principle of local papers still printing local news and the effort it takes for them to remain financially afloat.
I probably read the Contra Costa Times more than I read either the Record or the Sentinel. It covers a large section of the North Bay and some of the Valley. The few times I do read it, I often come across typo's and errors like the one we are presently discussing. I suspect that that this is not a grammar issue, rather automated production issues. No ones grammar is that bad that they would write a sentence like we are discussing. I also suspect that the issue is much less with the Grammar, but the decline in social values that is transpiring around us. The decline in grammar is just a symbolic representation of that. The focal point for frustration, if you will. But it is what it is.
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Post by greybeav on Aug 4, 2019 18:19:54 GMT -8
the latest:
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Post by Werebeaver on Aug 4, 2019 18:27:25 GMT -8
Light it up Kat! 🔥 🔥 |
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Post by rmancarl on Aug 4, 2019 19:05:49 GMT -8
That girl can shoot the basketball.
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Post by beaverwbb fan on Aug 4, 2019 19:14:11 GMT -8
That was missed greatly at times last year, and will be a welcomed addition back. Would be huge if we could get both her and Destiny back for their fifth years. Destiny, Aleah, Kat, Jasmine, and Sasha would be quite the backcourt!
Her shot is one of a kind, that’s for sure!
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Post by willtalk on Aug 5, 2019 1:35:00 GMT -8
Greg is her dad. He would spend hours every night helping her to develop the shot you see today. I certainly hope she gets that extra year. It will be invaluable with respect to her basketball career at the next level.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2019 4:33:12 GMT -8
That girl can shoot the basketball. 11 out of 12 from 3-pt range ain't bad... |
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Post by beaveragain on Aug 5, 2019 4:58:16 GMT -8
Yeah now, get off her back. I'm sure she'll improve by the time the season starts!
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Post by lotrader on Aug 5, 2019 8:47:17 GMT -8
Cannot wait to see this stud back in Gill. Can you anticipate the reception Kat will get from Beaver Nation the moment she enters the game? We are going to light up Gill when Kat enters the game.
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Post by bmoc on Aug 5, 2019 12:18:28 GMT -8
Agreed! Can't wait to see her back on the court!
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Post by TheGlove on Aug 7, 2019 12:04:47 GMT -8
I'd rebound for her any day. Easy to do when they (almost) all go in. |
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Post by 411500 on Aug 7, 2019 13:22:45 GMT -8
Kat is one of the few university-level WBB players who can receive a pass at shoulder level and then immediately progress the ball upward into a shooting motion without first bringing it down to her rib cage...
This is one reason for her unusually quick release.
To shoot the way she does requires almost perfect synchrony between wrist release and foot release from floor. In the absence of this "perfect" synchrony the shot will invariably fall short.
How Kat mastered this release when so few other WBB players are able to do it is a mystery to me....
Maybe someone knows her game well enough to shed some light on this....
GO BEAVS !!
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Post by baseba1111 on Aug 7, 2019 20:15:20 GMT -8
Kat is one of the few university-level WBB players who can receive a pass at shoulder level and then immediately progress the ball upward into a shooting motion without first bringing it down to her rib cage... This is one reason for her unusually quick release. To shoot the way she does requires almost perfect synchrony between wrist release and foot release from floor. In the absence of this "perfect" synchrony the shot will invariably fall short. How Kat mastered this release when so few other WBB players are able to do it is a mystery to me.... Maybe someone knows her game well enough to shed some light on this.... GO BEAVS !! As with any skill that's excelled at... PRACTICE... HOURS AND HOURS. |
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