Our old time desk Sgt.s would red line them and return them to you. Those were the day's of TYPED reports, dictionaries, and turning them in prior to securing. Thanks for your service George.
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Our old time desk Sgt.s would red line them and return them to you. Those were the day's of TYPED reports, dictionaries, and turning them in prior to securing. Thanks for your service George.
Cdog
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For me a little effort goes a long way.
Brevity, line spacing, and periods aren't bad things.
Brevity, line spacing, and periods aren't bad things.
1morethan8
US Veteran, Absent Comrade
I'm absolutely perfect in every way.. I don't make mistakes!
Well? I did make a mistake one time... I thought I was wrong and I wasn't!
coltle6920
Member
Older people get naked whereas streakers and jaybirds get nekked.
CAJUNLAWYER
Member
SImple.
Naked means you ain't got no clothes on.
Nekked means you ain't got no clothes on for a reason
CAJUNLAWYER
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The end all of English writing
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.
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.
Grayfox
US Veteran
The OP didn't read his "EULA'S". When using the internet spelling and grammer will get you banned.
smokindog
Member
If you ain't got no clothes on, aren't you fully clothed 
SImple.
Naked means you ain't got no clothes on.
Nekked means you ain't got no clothes on for a reason
JJEH
Member
I once heard the claim (almost always incorrect in informal speech, by the way) that a double negative was equivalent to a positive. The same teacher was explaining, however, that a double positive was never equivalent to a negative. In the back of the class, one guy says to his friend, "Yeah. Right."If you ain't got no clothes on, aren't you fully clothed
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smokindog
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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:
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.......
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.......
And it's worse when it's all ONE paragraph. And yes, I started a sentence with "and." Twice.
You can fool some of the people all of the time, all of the people some of the time, but you can make a fool out of yourself anytime.
Other people's spelling, grammar and punctuation used to bother me some when I first got online but I quickly got over it. It doesn't control my emotions and can add entertainment value to the reading.
If someone handed me a report stating "Dat much erl would
sank dat bote." I would be far more concerned with changing the course of action than his spelling and grammar.
If someone handed me a report stating "Dat much erl would
sank dat bote." I would be far more concerned with changing the course of action than his spelling and grammar.
bhayles
Member
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?
"a slide ruler"
Hey Caj,
I have one of those!
When I got it 52 years ago, I was a wannabe engineer. But I wound up with a degree in bean-counting.
And, yes, I still know how to use it. However, in today's world of computer spell-checkers and calculations to the ump-teenth decimal, it doesn't give the "right" answers.
Progress is great!
We put men on the moon with slide rule's, I just gave mine away.
They are close enough for government work.
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I don't believe I need to make a comment to the OP because "Old TexMex" hit the nail squarely on the head. All I will say to the OP is get a life man
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Dave from Pa
SWCA Member, Absent Comrade
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
Doug M.
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^ That must have been a real bugger to type that way. A lot harder than it was to read.
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
Member
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
Member
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
Member
How we doing???????? Hokay I hape, I mean HOPE It is the machines fault dagnabit!!!
I thought all gun owners were one toothed, tobacco spittin', tattooed, country hicks that have a problem with grammar and spelling. Y'all. 
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.
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.
You just described our town.I thought all gun owners were one toothed, tobacco spittin', tattooed, country hicks that have a problem with grammar and spelling. Y'all.
bhayles
Member
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
US Veteran
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.
