Folks, the metal we work with is STEEL

[Don Hanson III]

Haha, Nick. I remember that conversation in SA.

I guess I'm fairly laid back on most of this. The long, strung out paragraphs without punctuation and capitalization frustrate me, so I just skip them generally. I've found that as my time becomes more limited, my effort and desire to decipher hard-to-read posts just goes away.

I can't tell you how many times I have started to type a reply to various posts only to just hit cancel or close the browser. Guess my patience is getting slim.

--Nathan

Right on, Nathan. I also don't read them and usually don't read extremely long posts.

 

[Don Hanson III]

And another big one for me. Large photos (file size). I have satellite internet service,
with limited bandwidth and it kind of sucks. I'll usually hit the back button, if photos are slow to load.

I also will not scroll side to side, to read a thread because of photos that are larger than my monitor screen.
Folks, it's too easy to size photos for the internet!
If you don't know how, then it's time to learn!

 

[Phil Dwyer]

Maybe this will help?

....I can't stand it when people spell the possesive when the plural is intended. Drives me fricken nuts. You don't use an apostrophe to indicate there's more than one of something. For example the plural of grinder is grinders, not grinder's. Arghhh....

I'm not seeing the misplaced apostrophe. If you're wondering why it's in one place for "shouldn't" and a different place for "they're", it's because in a contraction the apostophe replaces the missing letters.

 

[sunshadow]

Does the misplacement of an apostrophe necessarily belong to a single Grammar Nazi?



-Page

 

[NickWheeler]

Maybe this will help?

That's funny

 

[Tippet]

I don't get it. Can someone please explain it to me?
Did I post out of line somehow? Isn't that was this thread is for?
Lord knows you don't dare correct someone's grammar in any other thread.

 

[deloid]

sefink nwo ym fo laets eht hcniuq syawla I taht eton dluohs u

 

[james terrio]

Tippet, the second caption says "Grammar Nazi's". It may or may not have been meant to be ironic. *facepalm*

 

[Atlas Knife Company]

FWIW its not new, AFAICT it has ben goin on 4 a whil. TAFN - LOL

I believe it was Tigger, from Winnie-the-Pooh, who began it with TTFN. Long before texting.

 

[Tippet]

Tippet, the second caption says "Grammar Nazi's". It may or may not have been meant to be ironic. *facepalm*

Oh I see. Doh! The specific thing I was bitchin about and I didn't even see it, lol. An apostrophe with a possessive.

But that isn't an irony is it?

 

[Larry D. Davis]

Bugs the crap out of me when people use the word "Nazi" haphazardly, naively, humorously and recklessly and obviously have no clue what that word has meant for the past 70 years. HORROR, HOLOCAUST, DEMONIC sick behavior!! Sign of a true ignorant person.

 

[Leadfoot2]

I guess the Soup Nazi is out then


Leadfoot

 

[Tippet]

Bugs the crap out of me when people use the word "Nazi" haphazardly, naively, humorously and recklessly and obviously have no clue what that word has meant for the past 70 years. HORROR, HOLOCAUST, DEMONIC sick behavior!! Sign of a true ignorant person.

I know what you mean, although I'm not sure it indicates ignorance. More like callousness. The word is now commonly used to describe anyone who insists on adhering to the rules. An unfortunate, very regrettable development in the evolution of the language. But most people who use the word that way do realize the true meaning of the word, if they'd take a moment to think about it.

 

[J.KNIGHT]

Candy ass crybabies eat quince and quince blades made of old horse hoof rasps in albino rabbit urine.

I don't have a problem with that or dat or, whatever????

What do you think nick? Kevin? How do you quince a blade anyway?

J. Knight
master bladesmith

who cant quince his own blades

or spell

what the ever!!!!!

 

[Kevin R. Cashen]

Quince actually is a word. A quince is a tree that has little green fruit the is kind of a cross between an apple and a pear. My neighbor had a small ornamental quince bush in his yard. Perhaps "quinching" is plunging hot steel into quince juice or even plunging a blade into quince fruit... (why not? It should smell better than a slave or goat urine)

 

[james terrio]

But that isn't an irony is it?

I'm not entirely sure and too lazy to look it up. That could be a whole thread of its own!

 

[Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith]

Quince is also a nice handle wood.

 

[Doc Shipley]

Everybody really does know that “quinch” or “quinching” is not a word* and that fast cooling steel is called quenching… right?

No, man, "quinch" is a proper verb.

It means "to peer closely with slitted eyes while plunging the workpiece into a liquid coolant".

I'll just get my hat now...

My pet peeve? Folk's who put apostrophe's into every word that end's with an es's.

 

[Doc Shipley]

I hate texting...and the butchered grammer that goes along with it...

I typically see 1600-2000 texts a month on my phone bill. A lot of it's business, a lot more of it's social.

I will be damned if I'll quit speaking English just because the keyboard's small.

On the other hand, I spend a good bit of time on a technical channel on IRC (old-school chat). There, I use a lot of contractions and anacronyms like BTW, OTOH, AFAICT, and FMIIK.

But on the Gripping Hand, "ur" is never, ever going to be a real word.

 

[st8yd]

Clicked on the post expecting something educational. I thought steal was type of medal and qwenching it was akin to qwenching your thirst.

Occasionally I try to short cut a word even in my personal notes, ie. dek vs deck. But I wind up changing it most of the time. Somehow just makes ya feel dumber.