Private Reserve Tanzanite

[p-zero]

If there was a spell checker feature on this forum for posting, I'd gladly use it.

[amh210]

AAARRRRRRGGGGHHHH! I can't stand it any longer! I must go public with the fact that those of you who claim English as your mother tongue and continue to spell "definitely" as "definately" must go directly to your dictionary and satisfy yourself that I'm correct. That done, please spell it correctly in the future.

 

There, I've said it and I'm glad! (Anal, I know, but the world needs people like me...doesn't it?). You may now resume normal verbal intercourse.

How dull if we all had to spell a word the same way..................................

 

 

 

 

Andy

[ConnallMac]

AAARRRRRRGGGGHHHH! I can't stand it any longer! I must go public with the fact that those of you who claim English as your mother tongue and continue to spell "definitely" as "definately" must go directly to your dictionary and satisfy yourself that I'm correct. That done, please spell it correctly in the future.

 

There, I've said it and I'm glad! (Anal, I know, but the world needs people like me...doesn't it?). You may now resume normal verbal intercourse.

Actually I don't find people being anal about something so trivial as spelling to be terribly useful. You are of course correct about the spelling, but you could have made use of the private message feature of this forum rather than grandstanding.

 

 

--J. Haney

[wdyasq]

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

 

 

Ron

 

edit to correct spelling....

Edited July 16, 2006 by wdyasq

[southpaw]

edit to correct spelling....

:roflmho: :roflmho: :roflmho: :roflmho:

[wdyasq]

I'd spelled Andrew - Anrew.... Don't want Stonewall Jackson (whoa there) [synonym for mad was used - started with a p..] at you...

 

Ron

 

edited for language police

Edited July 16, 2006 by wdyasq

[theking]

Actually, I am curious why "definitely" is incorrectly spelled all the time. It's quiet annoying to me, as for some reason the "a" really stand out and I would see it every time.

 

Having said that, I must also say that posting a message on a free forum shouldn't be a big deal. What if you make typos?

 

I am a lawyer and write a lot of stuff that I have to check and revise many times. It's relaxing to post on a forum when I don't have to do that.

[amh210]

My mother, of course, would agree with Roger.

 

Way back when in fifth grade, when I should have been paying attention to Mrs. Dolch, our "speller" (imagine that, a textbook dedicated to proper spelling) had a section of "devil words" as part of each lesson. These were words that were most commonly mispelled, tricky, confusing, etc.

 

Years later, in an English Lit class, we had a lecture on the history of spelling and learned that uniform spelling is a rather "modern" idea and was instigated by the aristocracy to provide even more "difference" and "distance" from the peasantry and working classes than their economic or hereditary "superiority" provided.

 

Among these words were the ones I mispell most frequently (or is that misspell?) and I did a paper where I found citations of Early and Middle English usage of words the way "I" spelled them.

 

I got an "A" on the paper, but I just don't seem to retain the automatic "spell-right" neuropathways for about 100 common English words.

 

This boy has always been too lazy to look up a word in the dictionary (pretty tough if you don't know how to spell it anyway) so one of the things I am thankful for is a spell-checker in my word-processor.

 

Spellchecker? Wordprocessor?

 

Now I need that de-hyphenator. Or is that de-hyphenater? :ltcapd: :ltcapd: :ltcapd: :ltcapd: :ltcapd: :ltcapd: :ltcapd:

 

Andy

[tonyv]

Years later, in an English Lit class, we had a lecture on the history of spelling and learned that uniform spelling is a rather "modern" idea and was instigated by the aristocracy to provide even more "difference" and "distance" from the peasantry and working classes than their economic or hereditary "superiority" provided.

I read somewhere that by their standards Shakespeare was a poor writer; he spelled his own name three different ways!

[Sonnet]

So getting back to Tanzanite: I love this ink! It's a brilliant, deep purple! If a waterproof version of it were available, like the Noodler's inks, I'd buy it in a heartbeat!

[OboeJuan]

So getting back to Tanzanite: I love this ink! It's a brilliant, deep purple! If a waterproof version of it were available, like the Noodler's inks, I'd buy it in a heartbeat!

You know, this might not be waterproof, but it holds up much better under water than any other ink I have. It is the only one still legible after a 15 secod wash under streaming water. When the paper dries, it is still very easy to make out what was said. Just my thoughts.

 

Kath

[BillTheEditor]

Now I need that de-hyphenator. Or is that de-hyphenater? :ltcapd: :ltcapd: :ltcapd: :ltcapd: :ltcapd: :ltcapd: :ltcapd:

It's a hypheneater you want.

[Shelley]

On my monitor it looks more like a vibrant blue rather than purple, looks nice though...sigh another ink that is not sent out to our little island...

[Red Devils forever]

On my monitor it looks more like a vibrant blue rather than purple, looks nice though...sigh another ink that is not sent out to our little island...

 

 

'Tis one of the joys of this ink - put up beside a good blue ink, Tanz looks to be purple dominated; whilst against a nice purple - it looks to ve very blue. Yeah, I know who writes with more than one color of ink on a page... :embarrassed_smile: This was my first bottle of PR bought and still on of my faves - right behind the DC SS blue. Love it!!

Great review it was it was, gave me even more love for the color. Thanks and keep up the great wok!!

 

Mike

[sam]

...This was my first bottle of PR bought and still on of my faves ...

yep, my first bottle of PR...

and my favorite too...

hmm, but then its the only bottle of PR i've gotten so far

[RayMan]

I love the color. I just wish it wasn't so darn slow-drying.

[Stephen-I-am]

So getting back to Tanzanite: I love this ink! It's a brilliant, deep purple! If a waterproof version of it were available, like the Noodler's inks, I'd buy it in a heartbeat!

I think that if you would mix it half and half or so with Iraqi indigo you would end up with good water resistance.

 

Stephen

[Tricia]

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Yeah, I know who writes with more than one color of ink on a page... :embarrassed_smile:

 

...

Mike

 

Oh, I do! A lot. In fact, I often switch off pens every paragraph, sometimes even after a sentence or two. My journals and notes are very colorful. I don't have all these luscious inks just to have one color on a page!

 

Tanzanite is a beautiful color and a very handy ink to have around. It's one of the very few inks that I have in both bottles and carts.

[Robert Hughes]

I, being a lefty over-writer, was somewhat concerned about earlier references to smudging with PR inks. But in my short experience with PR Tanzanite, I haven't seen any evidence of smudging on the page or the heel of my hand, which is where pencil lead smudging tends to accumulate. When I was in grade school I was so thankful when the teacher let us use our fountain pens for an essay instead of pencil or ballpoint, because I could turn in a page unmarred by smears & smudges.

 

Perhaps the issue was lot-related? The PR inks I've bought in the past few weeks (Tanzanite and Arabian Rose) haven't given me any trouble.

[mstone]

I, being a lefty over-writer, was somewhat concerned about earlier references to smudging with PR inks. But in my short experience with PR Tanzanite, I haven't seen any evidence of smudging on the page...Perhaps the issue was lot-related? The PR inks I've bought in the past few weeks (Tanzanite and Arabian Rose) haven't given me any trouble.

It may be pen-related. I've tried Tanzanite in only two pens, a 51 and an Esterbrook with a 9668 nib. In the 51 it looks much lighter and bluer, and dries quickly. In the Esterbrook it is much darker and purpler, and never dries. I'm trying to decide what to put in the Esterbrook instead.