getting tired of...

[Doug M.]

^ That must have been a real bugger to type that way. A lot harder than it was to read.

 

[mbliss57]

I am college educated and an engineer. Engineers care about how to make things that work. You don't need good grammar to build a good handgun. You need people who can do things. The last thing I worry about on any forum (except an english grammar forum) is grammar...I want to know the content of the post. As long as I can figure out what is meant by the writer I could give 2 flips about their grammar. This is a gun forum not an english class. This forum probably has some of the best written threads of any gun forum I have been on. But it is still a gun forum about guns not grammar.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

Ah yes...someone knew it was Lewis Grizzard, a Great American, R.I.P.

The other one I mentioned...knowing the difference between "business" and "bidness" is also Lewis. A real southerner knows the difference...Yankees trying to play southern don't.

Anyone gonna take a shot at it?

Long time fan of Lewis-he died wayyyyy too soon.
Bidness is what Texans in the energy sector do.
"Ahm in the awl bidness and we're layin' pipe from the well to the new refinery."

 

[bhayles]

Long time fan of Lewis-he died wayyyyy too soon.
Bidness is what Texans in the energy sector do.
"Ahm in the awl bidness and we're layin' pipe from the well to the new refinery."

Yep...Lewis died way too soon for us, but about right for him. He was a troubled, unhappy man who tried his best to get his stuff together but never quite made it. I'm sure he is in a far better place, and happy and content now.

As to "bidness"...nope. Its a Lewis-ism and he didn't know squat about the oil patch. A hint...its appropriate for this forum.

 

[george minze]

How we doing???????? Hokay I hape, I mean HOPE It is the machines fault dagnabit!!!

 

[sheepdawg]

I thought all gun owners were one toothed, tobacco spittin', tattooed, country hicks that have a problem with grammar and spelling. Y'all.

 

[snubbyfan]

I once worked with a Mexican fellow at a Toyota retail parts counter. He was our Si abla espanol counter guy. When he came to this country he did it legally, got his green card and bothered to learn the language. When I was working with him he was taking enunciation classes.
One day a customer says, "yo, let me ax you sumpin'," he replied in carefully enunciated english, "you may ASK me something, not AX me sumpin."
I had to walk into the warehouse before I started laughing.
He told me once that if he's helping someone that's here illegally then that means that they have all their money in their pockets and he intends to take every penny by upselling. It was so easy for him to get here legally, that kinda stuff really urinates him off.

 

[snubbyfan]

I thought all gun owners were one toothed, tobacco spittin', tattooed, country hicks that have a problem with grammar and spelling. Y'all.

You just described our town.

 

[bhayles]

I thought all gun owners were one toothed, tobacco spittin', tattooed, country hicks that have a problem with grammar and spelling. Y'all.

I'll have you know I have TWO teeth, no tattoos and don't chew.

Not for more'un 20 years anyways...

 

[Illini_Glock]

Nope did it on purpose...glad you picked it up...I tried to leave in the hilites for a misspelled word, but it wouldn't do that, so I went a little less subtle...

Catach22, nope, and nope...but I'm not crazy...my mother had me checked

Doug627...not grading, just observing and finally commenting...

bamabiker...HUH????

Jessie...thanks, I was not made aware of that but it appears to be a great possible explanation...

see, this is fun...for me

Sorry, brother, that's a load of something out of a bull. You rail about grammar and then put in a word like that. This is when I use a word like hypocrite.

 

[snubbyfan]

 

[bgrone]

What happened to White?

The Elements of Style / Edition 4 by William Strunk | 9780205309023 | Paperback | Barnes & Noble

This thin little bible is the beginning and the end of writing. Should be required summer reading for all incoming college freshmen.
Hell, it ought to be required reading for anyone graduating from High School.

When I was in school it was Strunk & White, I guess they split an infinitive since then?

Jim in Iowa

 

[george minze]

Boox might be trying to out do "Thread Drift"....Still a long way to go.I'm sure geddylee won't mind......I might add geddy was awful good about the whole thing.....He joined in and seems to be no worse off...

 

[Old TexMex]

I'm an engineer and English, spelling, grammar, and the ability to put thought to paper were every bit as important as the mechanics, science, and deduction. It was emphasized and graded as such.

Like the OP, maybe I just woke up in a crotchety mood

I understand the casual environment is different but after reading some of the responses here, I wonder if many understand the separation of the worlds. This is precisely why I don't take information for loads or other critical information from blogs

One exam I had in petroleum engineering gave many parameters about a ship's capacity, crude oil, temperatures, friction loss values, and about 2-3 other pages of variables and conditions. The question was simple. The CEO has asked you to let him know how much of the available crude from storage can be delivered using this one vessel and when can it sail.

All the math/engineering took 4-5 hours and everyone got the correct analytic answer.

Here are the results:

• The analytic answer says all the crude from the tanks will fit on the ship and it will be loaded in XX.YY hours.
• However, doing so put the ship 1 inch under water and you just lost an expensive asset.
• No one pointed that out.
• No one wrote a readable executive level response explaining the situation.
• The returned exams all had "You're FIRED" written across the top.

I see more and more in my industry the failure to look at the entire problem and the attitude that taking time to consider the entire problem is not necessary. I've seen many "sunk tankers" in the past 36 years and they are sinking more frequently. Grammar, spelling, writing, and all aspects of every problem should be considered.

There is a good moral in that exam. Everyone was given a make-up and passed. It was also explained that there are no make-ups in the real word.......

that's why first officers and tankermen look at the plimsoll mark.

Company men have sunk more ships than U boat skippers ever did.

 

[Brian41]

I started posting on gun forums in 2000 and before spell check on my computer. I kept a dictionary next to my keyboard to check my spelling and it improved a lot because of the effort. I was raised at a time when grammar and spelling were considered important and an indicator of your education.
Now my wife with three degrees asks me how to spell words and her grammar is awful especially around her family. It irks me such things weren't a part of her college education and I think that a major problem today.
When I worked in maintenance we had a list for repairs needed first on paper and later on computer. I was appalled how many people with above average intelligence couldn't put into words what they wanted done.
My posts certainly may be incorrect but I do try just the same and sorry for my mistakes.

 

[Jst1mr]

I hope I spelled "Boox" correctly while updating my Ignore List.

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

Sometimes I just need to finish that post when my prostate calls and I make a typo or in two in all the rush and excitement. At those times minor spelling errors just seem to fade to insignificance.

 

[Mule88]

"Im not a very smart man Jenny, but I do know how to spell Boolit"

 

[Boox]

This one has pretty much run it's course...
Suffice it to say that while many posts approach insult, I'm still laughing, some of the rationalizations are humorous, and funny.
The concept is still that I(just me) find spelling an important part of my overall impression of you, and you of me, I'm not OCD, I may be a "nit-picker" but that is how I see it.
I will continue to read, absorb and utilize information here, and I will also continue to skip over comments that are unreadable, in my mind, due to their poor spelling, run on sentences, etc.
To those who are or were offended by my comments , too bad, to those who want to ignore me, no loss, thanx (spelled that way on purpose, again) to those who agree and to those who chose to PM me with support. To those who seem to think it's OK to mock me, go for it, I'm not too thin skinned.
I said what I had to say and that all I'm gonna(spelled this way to make it easier for some of you to read)say...NUFF SAID
And, BTW, Boox(Books, Booker, Bookworm, based on my last name) has been my nickname since I was old enough to remember, it's now Big Boox in most cases, due to the fact that I have doubled in size since I was 12, but that's more real information than you really need.

 

[wittmeba]

"a slide ruler"

Since you posted...I heard a rule - "Never swat flies with a slide rule!".

Me, learning from experience, now I know why