Sense of humour
 

What do you mean i've no sense of humour, Garfs?

I had a laugh at you making another punctuation error by missing the full-stop at the end of your last post. :)

Andy, please rearrange the following words to construct a well-known sentence:-

Skating are thin on ice you

Capital "I" for I please, but I can recognise that as a typo as I can for most of the other so-called spelling mistakes - cut the guy some slack. If you really want to read some appalling English, pop over to Professional Training; you'll have a field day there!

Impress, it should be "who will hit whom first".

Cheers

Whirls

Andy

You obviously need to lighten up a bit.

We could be here all day discussing spelling, punctuation, grammar etc, something which you're not clearly an expert on either as shown in your last post(as kindly pointed out by Whirls), but life's too short :)

Cheers
Garfs

Whirls, diagnosed with dyslexia at the age of 8 and have never looked back since. Thank good for spell checker but where the fwck is the grammar checker on this poxy bill gates machine ?

There is one in MS Word; it underlines stuff in green but it's not very good. It doesn't understand that "none" is singular and it won't pick you up for putting prepositions at the end of sentences!!

However, I will!

Cheers

Whirls

oops
 

Fair enough:D

The problem as I see it, is a lackadaisical approach to writing, regardless or not you went through that poor period of NSW education. Take for example:

The reason you would use a reference like an English dictionary or a "T"hesaurus is because you need to check or double check a word when you are applying yourself to writing something more esoteric than the average vocabulary allows. A post on PPRUNE hardly requires that "each time I come on .....". It is an appalling indictment of English teaching standards in Australia and I guess, of the author's opinion that subject matter is more important than the delivery. It is not.

As for spelling and grammar checkers:

I have a spelling chequer -
It came with my Pea See.
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss steaks aye can knot sea.
Eye ran this poem threw it,
Your sure reel glad two no.
Its vary polished in it's weigh,
My chequer tolled me sew.

Why a capital "T" for thesaurus? It's just an ordinary noun?!

Cheers

Whirls



....your spelling nemesis

I just read this thread for the first time. I only looked because I saw that my esteemed friend Whirls had just posted, and I thought: "Oooooo, if she knows about Agustas then maybe she's flying one, and if so, I want to know about it!"

What do I find? Firstly, Whirls hasn't flown an Agusta, any more than I have. :{ I'm working on it though; maybe soon. :)

Secondly, it's turned into a long discussion on English grammar. Errrr....why? I read it through; it all made sense. Everyone communicated what they wanted to say quite adequately, and that's what writing is about - communication.

In my other work as a writer I have to check every word - though I don't bother usually; I let the sub-editor do it for me. On PPRuNe, the only times I get upset are if something is incomprehensible or ambiguous due to poor spelling or grammar. This wasn't the case here, so why the fuss?

This is an information and chat forum, not a masterpiece of English literature that's in the running for the next Booker Prize.

Edited to put in the question mark I missed out - not that anyone would have cared....ooops, the spelling police would!

Actually, I have but I couldn't log it :O

This thread has gone along the classic route (as do all these threads)

1. Someone posts a reasonable and polite question but it contains a (usually humourous) spelling mistake or typo.

2. Someone ese picks up on this and has a laugh at their expense or otherwise resorts to name-calling.

3. Someone else will answer the original question ignoring the diatribe that precedes their post.

4. Several "voices of reason" chip in accusing the original pedant of being unfair.

5. Opposing "voices of reason" chime in to give their viewpoint that both spelling and grammar are important and look how perfect their posts are and point out all the errors in everyone else's posts!!

6. Further pedants join in to point out that previous pedants are have used a flying apostrophe where they shouldn't or Oxford commas are SO out of fashion now'

7. The "voices of reason" pick on the original pedant pointing out that everyone is fallible.

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose :ok:

Cheers

Whirls
Founding Member of the East Dereham Pedants' Society

Yeah, wotever, innit :E

rotors88,

Don't know if you are interested in the A109S as well, but it burns 210-220 kgs/hour in the cruise, at 80/80 torque set, or 230 Kgs/hr with the heater full on. But as you are in Oz, you probably don't need that last figure :p

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y29...que/A109S1.jpg

It is quite a fast cruise though for such a little heli; 150 kts loaded or 165 kts with just me in it!

I think you'll find it's 'plus c'est le même chose', Whirls - I think that comes under item 6. Now, what's the French for tin hat?

Nice try Rotarywise, but I think not!

Cheers

Whirls

Whirls is right; it's la meme chose. "Chose" is feminine; I just looked it up in my trusty pocket French dictionary.

Right, so now let's have an argument about French grammar too!

I know someone with a French Granmar......apparently she's a very nice lady.

Naturellement, Whirls est correct, c'est la même chose. I'm surprised Froggy pilot hasn't jumped in to help here :}. French is, of course, a delightfully illogical language which has, as so many other languages, gender for everything. I wonder who, or what, decides the gender of everything? Some of them are most confusing - but I won't go into that here!

Sorry, thread wander, mostly as a result of excessive consumption of trop de Château Guiot :}

Unlike German which has the neutral "das"; even more confusing especially when "girl" is "Das Mädchen"!

Since when were women "neutral"??!! Perhaps we won't go there either!

Cheers

Whirls

"excessive consumption of trop de Château Guiot" - I think you'll find that's tautological!:p

Ah quite, possibly due to excessive consumption........ at the time! :}