The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #109916   Message #2304248
Posted By: The Borchester Echo
02-Apr-08 - 04:19 AM
Thread Name: Our ghastly folk tradition
Subject: RE: Our ghastly folk tradition
RB said:

"Professionalism" means doing something to get paid
No it doesn't. It means doing it properly. Then getting paid. Maybe.

"amateur" . . . means doing something without being paid
It doesn't. It means doing it for the love of it, regardless of payment.

It isn't about "Good enough for folk" - which was never a credo but rather a very English piece of self-deprecation
Scottish actually, © Alex Campbell.

Didn't you get the bum's rush from fRoots for spewing out these inaccurate platitudes?

Your final three paragraphs are overwhelmingly incomprehensible. I advise a return to bed for the rest of the day.