Subject: Digest for the period 8/30/2007 - 8/31/2007
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:00:50 -0400

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  1. Order more significant than verbiage (MeadGuild`at`aol.com) 
  2. Spelling (Jon Tobey) 


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From: MeadGuild`at`aol.com  Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 02:28:36 EDT
Subject: Order more significant than verbiage 


"What came first the chicken or the egg?" may be a 
philosophical question.  But what do you notice when 
judging - the "Appearance" or the "Aroma"?
 
Dick



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From: Jon Tobey  Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:01:55 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Spelling 


From: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/verbage
  /ver'b*j/ n. A deliberate misspelling and mispronunciation of verbiage that assimilates it to the word `garbage'. Compare content-free. More pejorative than `verbiage'.
   
  I'm pretty sure you guys are making my point about the importance of words, so thank you on that. Even when the information is a click away, we often prefer to bask in our ignorance.
   
  My overall point, of which this is just a particular example, is that we labor under the assumption that as judges we do a good job. I think some judges do a pretty good job, but that we could/should look at any means to raise the bar. A lot of judging just plain sucks. (If more judges entered competitions, this might be more poignant. ) If we could improve that by improving the score sheet, that would be an easy way to start.
   
   
  However, every idea I see brought up here, mine or otherwise, gets vehemently shouted down by the naysayers. So I ask, what is the point of the list? 


Jon Tobey 
Ideastream 
425-373-6064
 
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