[s-cars] On DC Craigslist

[Wylie Bean]

I've never met "the fair Elizabeth", and I'm not dismissing her creds, but acceptable = too lazy to learn the correct spelling or pronunciation IMHHEO (credit Dave F) and an apathetic ear turned by scholarly types towards correcting said incorrect pronunciation. It's not preventate, so it's not preventative. Someone that invents is not inventative, he's inventive.  
I hate to argue but this sort of thing "drives" (mandatory content) me up the wall.
    
Wylie Bean
TheRingmeister at triad.rr.com
90 cq
91 90q20v
92 UrS4
08 Q7 3.6
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-----Original Message-----
From: racingiron at comcast.net
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 00:25:36 
To: <theringmeister at triad.rr.com>
Cc: s-car-list<s-car-list at audifans.com>
Subject: Re: [s-cars] On DC Craigslist

ringrmeester wrote: 
> The seller writes so eloquently... 
> 
> "please no low balling, this car is cared for and had 5000 dollars 
> of preventative maintains done to it alone, it is worth well more 
> than the asking price ..." 
> 
> That's it boys... How could one resist? What with the $5000 in 
> "prevenTAtive maintains" done already. 

Being married to one who holds a PhD in English, I've become accustomed to watching my spelling and grammar. However, and I know we've had this discussion before, "preventative" is actually an acceptable "preventive" variant. Kinda like flammable/inflammable. The "maintains" still stands, though. If that's the worst infraction, it's not even in the same league with the typical CL ad copy we get down here in good ol' TN... 

Eric R. 
'86 urq 
'92 urS 
'93 urS