My pew pews are pretty!

Bret4207

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
"Stand by............for news!" I miss Paul. That voice was a constant from my earliest years to his death, so most of my life. Kinda like when Campbells changed their Vegetable Beef Soup so that it didn't taste like it did for 50 years. It's just not the same.
 
CZ93X62

CZ93X62

Official forum enigma
Late to the thread, which I've enjoyed perusing.

I try to use correct nomenclature for such things as cartridges, shells (for shotguns), cases, bullets, what have you. I'm not all doctrinaire about it either.

All that said.......I cannot abide the use of 'Pew pew' to describe a firearm or gunshot. I know it's harmless and innocuous, but no can do.
 
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Michael

Michael

Active Member. Uh/What
Speaking of Wales and it's name, are you aware that Canada, was not always called Canada?

In the early settlement of the area it was referred to as CND. Fast forward to the time when it became an independent nation, the secretary had to register CND to be recognized by all of the other nations. So there he is all formal, in the final stage of independence, at the registers office, the clerk looks at the secretary and asks "What the name of the country?". The secretary replies "CND". The clerks then responds by asking "How do you spell that?" The secretary replies "C eh, N eh, D eh"
 
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California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
Speaking of Wales, my one-fourth South England and Wales blood would have been empathetic to Josie's plight.
 
fiver

fiver

Well-Known Member
or the generic term 'Hulls' for both.... shells and casings.

i once had a two page debate because i called a 'load' a recipe.
a few guys just could not understand that we follow a recipe just like in cooking or chemistry to make a round of ammo.
i'm sure someone wrote a letter 80 years ago complaining about those whippersnappers using the term ammo..... LOL
 
RBHarter

RBHarter

West Central AR
Case sensitive.........

Logging in truck drivers . I told a guy I needed the DL/ID for spelling and so I can spell the names right we can't all be Jim Smith . He starts laughing...... James Smythe ........
Then there was George that the guy before me put on THE LIST as Jorge . Turns out it was Gorgergy .

About 4-5 words from the end of the S's is syzygy , the study of sun spots . Don't ask .......

Real , reel , reel , reel .......

A sill is a seal but not the one that eats fish or the one that is official or closes a letter .

Reservoir , RSVP, kindergarten........I was really looking for some of those 14 letter no vowels words .
 
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Jeff H

NW Ohio
richhodg66 said:
Saw this the other day. "People who can't differentiate "Burro" from "Burrow" don't know their ass from a hole in the ground."
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OK, I know someone I need to send that one to. The lit professors think I'm too anal about our language, but geez, man, at least make an effort to be clear, to be on the same page so people know what you're talking about. Especially when it comes to something so esoteric as our avocation and technical vocations, law enforcement, nursing, the military....

Sports fans will peg a poser within three seconds when they start using the wrong terminology to impress others. It's a huge faux pas to NOT know the jargon, yet there is a carelessness and general lack of pride in learning the ropes and "speaking the language," laziness perhaps or a disdain for anything which existed before the perpetrator of such a faux pas existed. We carry the Internet around in our pocket for cryin' out loud! LOOK IT UP!

I am certainly no expert and do get a kick out of when I mess up - I learn something, but English is a complex and difficult language with a crazy history. Keeps life interesting.

I have a very dear friend, highly educated, wise well beyond her years, polite, thoughtful competent, capable, yet incredibly easy to be around. A couple weeks ago, I and another guy were discussing arrangements to cut firewood. She had just moved into a house with a fireplace with an insert and was curious how much wood I went through in a season, planning her own winter. I told her "four cords would leave me content not to worry."

She got the funniest look on her face, so I started to explained how my stove is just a little wonder - very efficient, so I don't need much,... She started laughing and told me "all these years I thought people were saying a QUART of wood!" All good fun and always something to learn.

Man, I'd hate to know everything already. It would be very boring.

Four quarts of wood probably wouldn't get someone through a winter on the equator.;)
 
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Jeff H said:
Dang, man! You got me! I was being especially careful too! :rofl:
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Sorry if I offended you, Jeff. It was meant as a slight tug of your leg. I enjoy your posts.

Those of us who were taught proper English, and make efforts to speak and write it correctly, get so used to hearing incorrect English spoken and written that it can easily slip into our own speech and writing. Yep, I'll occasionally say me and another guy, though it rankles me terribly to hear it from others.
 
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Jeff H

NW Ohio
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Sorry if I offended you, Jeff. It was meant as a slight tug of your leg. I enjoy your posts.

Those of us who were taught proper English, and make efforts to speak and write it correctly, get so used to hearing incorrect English spoken and written that it can easily slip into our own speech and writing. Yep, I'll occasionally say me and another guy, though it rankles me terribly to hear it from others.
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OH, goodness, NO! I screw up too and appreciate when someone notices.

That is one of my own peeves, along with ALWAYS using "I" instead of "me," even when "me' is appropriate.

I once read in a book about muzzle-loaders and black powder (of all places) something on the order of "never mind that perfection is impossible to achieve, you should strive for it none the less."

I'm not perfect by any stretch, but I try to at least be better through some effort. I think the lack of effort is what irks me more than the actual mistakes.
 
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Jeff H

NW Ohio
glassparman said:
When my daughter was in high school, she asked if I wanted to help her learn Spanish.

I told her I had to master my own language first.
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I learned more about English studying Russian than I ever did studying English. The Russians were beside themselves that we Americans affected to master their language when we couldn't even speak our own. One Marine and I, both under-educated, hicks from the sticks took a fair amount of abuse over that. On the bright side, it seemed to give certain Russians great pleasure to demean us.
 
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