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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2837140, member: 24314&quot;]Good morning everyone, where to begin?&nbsp; IMO, this thread was &quot;over&quot; as soon as Doug posted his opinion. This should have been the postscript:</p><p><br /></p><p>Santinidollar, posted: &quot;<span style="color: #5900b3">If the writer is widely unpopular, it won&#039;t make a hoot in hell worth of difference whether her grammar is the King&#039;s English or not. Her detractors will simply find something else to diffuse the issue with.&nbsp; My guess would be &quot;attitude,&quot; the long-standing crutch for anyone cornered by the truth</span>.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>wxcoin, posted: &quot;I just read her letter and had no problem understanding her position.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know her so I didn&#039;t begin reading her letter with any bias.&nbsp; Sure, there were &quot;grammar&quot; issues but I think I completely understood what she was saying; that&#039;s most important.&nbsp; I also agree with most of what she wrote.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I agree with both members and as [USER=76863]@baseball21[/USER] wrote: &quot;In all honesty to put it bluntly <span style="color: #ff0000">if anyone struggles to understand that post she just made the lack of intelligence isn&#039;t on her end.&quot;</span></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll confess to not seeing all the mistakes others saw.&nbsp; I&#039;ve become so accustomed to my mistakes (always need to correct/edit my posts after reading them) and those of others here that I don&#039;t even see them as I focus on the content.&nbsp; Laura is intelligent.&nbsp; It&#039;s a good bet her mind works faster than her fingers and that SHOULD happen to all of us when we are on a rant.&nbsp; It has been suggested that she use spell/grammar check when she writes.&nbsp; I&#039;ll agree, as we are judged by the way we dress and speak.&nbsp; If we don&#039;t know someone all we have is their written word.&nbsp;&nbsp; Look at it this way, I once had dinner with one of the biggest, most powerful coin dealers still in the business.&nbsp; He ate like a pig.&nbsp; That did not change my opinion of his numismatic contributions or the way I hung on his every word - dripping with drool and partly chewed food! </p><p><br /></p><p>ToughCOINS, posted: &quot;Wrong . . . if the delivery is poor, you&#039;ve got the audience distracted while thinking about the what the speaker/writer should have done, thus missing some of the content...</p><p>this is unintended misdirection, and happens all of the time in the professional world.&nbsp; Good delivery is critical to keeping the audience focused on the content.&quot;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>See, &quot;unintended misdirection<b><span style="color: #ff0000">,</span></b> [<span style="color: #006600">no comma needed</span>] and happens...&quot;&nbsp; Now let&#039;s all cut the grammar crap as it get&#039;s really old.&nbsp; Furthermore, &quot;delivery is a personal thing.&nbsp; Some are better writers and speakers.&nbsp; Reading or listening to them is more enjoyable but I&#039;m not going to stop listening to a lecture by Stephen Hawking just because his artificial delivery makes me cringe!&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>modern, posted: &quot;I would hope the on line courses are priced more reasonably than the classroom courses.&quot;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The ANA already offers correspondence courses and video presentations on grading and authentication. David Lisott sells videos of lectures given at educational forums. Most two-day courses offer more content + hands-on training and at even $600 they would be a good bargain.</p><p><br /></p><p>I suggest you have your coin club contact Brian Silliman directly or Mike Fazzari at ICG. Both give courses and both have taught ANA classes. I was at one for the Jacksonville Coin Club recently and members paid only $100. The club made up the difference.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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