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I walked out into the shop this morning to turn up the heat, and walked past 2 carved signs I put the finish coat on last night. Looking over how the paint flowed and just enjoying the signs finally coming to life, It hit me.
Does that word look right? Is THAT the way it is supposed to be spelled? I think it's right, did I hit spell check? Oh @#$*& what if I spelled it wrong, It's solid mahogany, they are due the end of this week
SO I ran to the computer and ran spell check anxiety ridden, only to find out......
It was correct.
The word was Field.
If you haven't figured out by now I HAVE done that before, and yes it was a mahogany sign then too
Not that an HDU sign would be any better, but less expensive to replace the material.
-------------------- Bob Rochon Creative Signworks Millbury, MA 508-865-7330
"Life is Like an Echo, what you put out, comes back to you." Posts: 5149 | From: Millbury, Mass. U.S. | Registered: Nov 1998
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Yes. I get paranoid about sign spelling, even though I am usually good at it. Last week I submitted a sketch that said "Lever E" instead of "Level E". Thank God it was just a sketch, but I was still embarrassed. I have been doing a lot of factory/industrial signs lately and I guess my brain was still in that mode when I was typing. Love....Jill
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Sometimes when I'm deep in the "design zone" I find even the simplest words like "that" or "the" to be completely abstract and divorced from language. It's like the left side of my brain's taking a siesta and the words just become a series of shapes.
-------------------- Paul Bierce - Designer pabierce@hotmail.com www.paulbierce.com Posts: 330 | From: Dix Hills, NY | Registered: Jan 2005
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I do that all the time. Sometimes I'll be runing t-shirts and check the spelling every couple dozen shirts ... I know the screen hasn't changed but I'm parinoid ... paranoid, pareanoyd, parrinoid about spelling.
Lost a few dozen "Thanksgigving" t-shirts last year
-------------------- Compulsive, Neurotic, Anti-social and Paranoid ... but basically Happy Posts: 2677 | From: Rochester, NY, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Yes, that happens to me when I'm looking at fonts. I'm actually a good speller normally, but after I've looked at a name or a word in a hundred different fonts, it'll suddenly look funny to me, and I'll have to blink a time or two, and like Mark, reassure myself that it is indeed spelled correctly.
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You know it's going to be a bad day when you are writing your last name and you stop halfway thru because you forgot how the rest of it went.
-------------------- Dana Blair Blair Signs Wooster, OH www.blairsigns.com
If sign makers go on strike, is there anything written on their picket signs? Posts: 835 | From: Wooster, OH, USA | Registered: Jul 1999
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When I look at the photos of signshop showrooms in SignCraft I often notice some of those beautiful pieces are spelled wrong. I guess that's why they're on the showroom wall and not on a wall or boat or somewhere being more useful. They are usually those words that don't look wrong until someone else points it out. Theres a store in town here that says "Trift Shop". Its been that way for years and they told me they leave it up now because of sentimental value, something to do with a story about the guy who did the first signs for the store years ago but most people don't notice it. I have had to check spelling many times when a word is right but starts to look strange after staring at it for a while.
-------------------- Chuck Peterson Designs San Diego, CA Posts: 1050 | From: San Diego, CA USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Every once in a while I'll do something on purpose, just to see if someone will notice it. I had a friend who owned a breakfast place - it was a real-life greasy-spoon dump of a restaurant. Anyway, she asked me to paint up a small sign that said "WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REFUSE SERVICE TO ANYONE". As a joke I wrote "WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO SERVE REFUSE TO ANYONE". The sign was up for at least a week before anyone noticed. Even then, she didn't want me to change it... it was just that kind of place.
-------------------- "A wise man concerns himself with the truth, not with what people believe." - Aristotle
Cam Bortz Finest Kind Signs Pondside Iron works 256 S. Broad St. Pawcatuck, Ct. 06379 "Award winning Signs since 1988" Posts: 3051 | From: Pawcatuck,Connecticut USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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