She was cool! What’s happened to her?
She had a lot of attidude. Why doesn’t she post any more? All the others that try to correct people are just amateurs compared to her.
Sign the Bring Back Miss Ayelery petition.
Better make it quick. She ain’t gettin’ any younger. Or is it too late?
Fixed. Be very careful with generalizations, young lad.
Sincerely, maestro8 the great.
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Originally Posted by ivan
Most the others that try to correct people are just amateurs compared to her.
Fixed. Be very careful with generalizations, young lad.
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Sign the Bring Back Miss Ayelery petition.
Sincerely, maestro8 the great.
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When you were fixing that, did you mean “Most of the others…”?
Nao
See what I mean?
She popped in last Friday. You just have to know where to look.
Steve-
I may or may not be an amateur but I would add that one could make other adjustments.
“Most others” works as well and cuts down on verbiage.
To eliminate ambiguity “mere” should replace “just”. Mere is more elegant too.
Lastly, while the use of “that” as a relative pronoun to refer to people has become fairly commonplace, “who” is the better choice.
“Most others who try to correct people are mere amateurs compared to her.”
I hope she comes along and makes further improvements. 
It worked when I clicked the link in the “Preview Post” mode.
Some moderator probably sabotaged it on me.
Curse that Gilby.
I liked your corrections, except for that “most others” thing. It just soudns wrong. Is it one of those American expressions or is it me?
I agree. My intent was to correct the fix, and to go no further.
However, should these “others” be correcting the people, or correcting the mistakes made by them? Additionally I think verbosity is fine (and a more elegant word than verbiage) as long as it does not confuse the meaning. “Mere” is not required, and in the interests of being politically correct we should not prejudge.
With the odd additional tweak we now have, as a fourth draft:
“Most of the those who try to correct mistakes look to be amateurs when compared with her.”
Chairman Nao ( I have a big meeting later)
Indeed, power does come from the pages of a manual of style.
Now, that’s well said!
All it needed was a teeny-meeny correction.
…actually it needed someone who proofread his own correction before clicking “Submit Reply”.
D’oh!
Naomi’s 4th law:
When correcting an error in a post written by another, the probability that you too will make an error is vastly increased. The chances that you will spot your own error, by proofreading, is decreased by a similar amount. Your error will immediately “jump out of the page” at anyone else reading your words.
Nao
Fortunately Miss Ayelery is a former proofreader so she is quite skilled and experienced in finding those errors.
I still say she might be a former of everything. We may be too little, too late. She was mighty old after all.
Remember the time her head caught fire?
Is she a real entity, with a separate existence? Or is she the alter ego of another of the regular posters here?
I do keep wondering.
Nao