It's KniVes, not KniFes!

[Hengelo_77]

Google: uncle Jack and his horse. It's the same thing

 

[TexasWade]

One other beef is makers ( usually young) who email me a question and I give them a link to a site with the answer or refer them to a tutorial in The Stickys. They reply that it is too hard to read all that on the small phone screen, and could I just condense it for them and tell them what to do.

Whole-ee bovines! That's redonkulous but I guess I can believe it.

I have a real vice about vises.

Me too! And I work in a machine shop. We use vises to hold what we're working on and the only vice around our place is that nasty crap half of these guys spit into their cups, cans and bottles all day.

 

[Brian.Evans]

To be fair, pein is an acceptable alternate spelling of peen, per Merriam Webster. Just sayin'.........HAHA!

 

[PocketEdge]

Im to scared to aks for advise on quinching or peaning or anything anymore. A'll these criticizms are having a bad affect on me. I'm just hear to make knive's. Not ... Knifes.

 

[Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith]

Don't be scared, you just make them one knive at a time.

 

[Rick Marchand]

Don't afraid about nothing.

 

[Kentucky]

I could care less how people talk or spell. Im a hillbilly afterall. I butcher the English language all day every day....
Though calling 1045 "tool" steel annoys me

 

[Matthew Gregory]

...the phrase is "couldn't care less".

If you could care less, it means you care more.


C'mon, admit it. It was too easy to pass up.

 

[jdm61]

But you can make tongs and such out of that and they are tools, aren't they? IN your part of the world, would you refer to 1045 as sprang steel?

I could care less how people talk or spell. Im a hillbilly afterall. I butcher the English language all day every day....
Though calling 1045 "tool" steel annoys me

 

[Kentucky]

...the phrase is "couldn't care less".

If you could care less, it means you care more.


C'mon, admit it. It was too easy to pass up.

Like I said..Hillbilly

 

[Rick Marchand]

English to Newfie translator... (My neighbor is from Newfoundland.)

"I am currently seeking employment."

Translate...

"Hey buddy, you don't know nobody don't want nothin' done, do ya?"

 

[james terrio]

"Hey buddy, you don't know nobody don't want nothin' done, do ya?"

...the phrase is "couldn't care less". If you could care less, it means you care more.

Those are true classics that go wayyyyy back before cell phones or the internet. And I assure y'all, it's not a 'Yankee thing' or a 'Southern thing' or 'whatever-the-heck those people up in the Great White North call themselves' thing...

So let's not just blame 'er on dem dang kids dese days, n'so? Hearing that sort of mind-boggling quadruple-negative nitwittery has always made me grit my teeth and wanna slap a fool, since I was knee-high to a grasshopper. Jus' sayin'!

BUT! In context, and "in theater", people hearing those phrases will understand exactly what's meant and respond accordingly. That's what "communication" means... literally! I mean, like, literally.

There is a big difference between dialectic and/or idiomatic phrasing and grammar, and just being an ignorant jackass (often, apparently, on purpose - which of course is the real meaning of ignorance. *sigh*).

Which brings us back to "knifes".... yeah... I'm on board, gents... hearing that automatically pisses me right off, no matter where I am or to whom I'm listening.

 

[Rick Marchand]

I am grateful to have a place to vent. Sometimes it can great on my ears.

 

[james terrio]

I am grateful to have a place to vent. Sometimes it can great on my ears.

 

[Rick Marchand]

Grate pic, Terrio. It bugs me when I see the word greatful... but so many folks do it that I'm beginning not to notice it. My friend tried to defend greatful by saying it was "full of great" and by stating that "grate" meant something unpleasant as in a grating sound. I always assumed it came from "gratitude".

 

[Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith]

Yes, the English word grate means agreeable or pleasant. It isn't used as an adjective anymore. It is used with a suffix in grateful - full of agreement or pleasure, or ingrate meaning one who is not pleasant or agreeable. It comes from Latin - gratus, which is also the source word for grace and gratitude.

 

[Matthew Gregory]

So long as we aren't talking about the Greatful Dead, cuz that shit greats on me after the first three hours or so, man...

 

[jdm61]

I thought grate was that iron thing in your fireplace or BBQ grill? Or, to use proper hillbillyspeak like my ancestors spoke, that arn thang in your farplace.