Blue Angels killed a cat

[1972coronet]

I don't want to read the article - the provided headline is enough for me to say NOPE. 

Speaking of "Huge / Hugh" - people have a helluva time pronouncing my surname which is Hughes. Then they can't spell the cornsarned name ! 

Of course I then thrill them with the family coat of arms ( it's in Cymræg ) , and how the surname is a patronym ; how it transcends both Ireland and Wales. 

Usually by that point I'm talking to an empty room.

[Dragline]

We could go on ad nauseum. The keyboard and it's various shortcuts are somewhat responsible for the state of certain things. I get the shorthand. LOL, IMO and the like. It saves typing without question. And if all are agreed, then fine.

This is the nature of language at its basest. It is a set of parameters which we all agree to. I did Not agree to Heighth, or Come with, or needs changed. In fact, I would have lobbied heavily that distorting language and manipulating it is the exact cause for a great many ills currently plaguing this country. I'll leave this here.

Edited yesterday at 02:46 AM by Dragline

[Tim W. SoCal]

1 hour ago, Rodent said:

"A/C just needs charged" is one of my peeves.

"My car is running bad, I think it needs a carb adjustment" - Sorry, your car has computer controlled fuel injection.

"The battery is dead, I think I gots a shortage"

"My air condtionin' needs some FREEZON"

"My car failed the smog test, they said my Cadillac converter is no good."

"When you gave me the estimate I almost had a eucalyptic seizure!"

[Monty]

1 hour ago, Dragline said:

With my degree in English I will say the Internet is a cringe fest when it comes to either spelling, pluralization or there, their, they're.  But the one that really burns me is Heighth. There is no H at the end of Height. I don't know where this came from, but it makes me nuts. There, I said it.

I'm amazed by the number of people who ostensibly made it through the K-12 process but can't make a proper plural version of a word.  The most common error I see is using an apostrophe before the "s", making it look like a possessive. (Ex: bike's) Even more mystifying is that they don't do this with every plural, and there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason as to how they decide.    

If I had to guess, I'd say they saw others write that way on the internet and assumed it was correct.  

[Ace-Garageguy]

2 minutes ago, Tim W. SoCal said:

"My car is running bad, I think it needs a carb adjustment" - Sorry, your car has computer controlled fuel injection.

Same guy furiously pumping the gas pedal when it won't start...

[peteski]

1 minute ago, Monty said:

I'm amazed by the number of people who ostensibly made it through the K-12 process but can't make a proper plural version of a word.  The most common error I see is using an apostrophe before the "s", making it look like a possessive. (Ex: bike's) Even more mystifying is that they don't do this with every plural, and there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason as to how they decide.    

If I had to guess, I'd say they saw others write that way on the internet and assumed it was correct.  

If it's on the Internet, it must be true!  BTW, misuse of "its" and "it's" is also rampant. Actually I had a problem with it until my GF straightened me out on the usage.

[Tim W. SoCal]

1 minute ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

Same guy furiously pumping the gas pedal when it won't start...

YUP, then trying to convince us that the car won't start without pumping the gas...

[Ace-Garageguy]

2 minutes ago, Monty said:

If I had to guess, I'd say they saw others write that way on the internet and assumed it was correct.  

Sheeples is as sheeples does.

It's funny that dumb and wrong seems to spread a lot faster than smart and right.

[Tim W. SoCal]

1 minute ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

It's funny that dumb and wrong seems to spread a lot faster than smart and right.

I am SO GLAD I grew up when we were taught to "reach for the stars" and "be all you can be" as opposed to these poor youngsters of modern times who are taught "you can't survive without government intervention" and "you'll own nothing and like it!"

[Ace-Garageguy]

I don't know exactly when "myriad" became a noun as well as an adjective.

When I was in school, myriad meant essentially "many", so saying "a myriad of something" was the same as saying "a many of something". Wrong, wrong, wrong.

Today though, it seems to be perfectly fine to say "a myriad of something", with myriad meaning "number", as in "a number of something".

To my ear, "a myriad" just sounds stupid.

But I assume it's been misused for so long it's now accepted in the vernacular.

 

[Ace-Garageguy]

11 minutes ago, Tim W. SoCal said:

I am SO GLAD I grew up when we were taught to "reach for the stars" and "be all you can be" as opposed to these poor youngsters of modern times who are taught "you can't survive without government intervention" and "you'll own nothing and like it!"

Live in a pod. Eat ze bugs. Everything is a social construct. Our form of gubmint is a democracy...

Might be straying a little far afield, you know, like flying too close to the sun if you know what I mean.

Don't wanna melt those wax wings.

Did somebody say something about a dead cat?

Edited yesterday at 03:38 AM by Ace-Garageguy

[mk11]

Would you want to live if you were that poor cat?    🤣

 

[1972coronet]

Who's idea was it to switch horse's midstream from it's original post ?

[Ace-Garageguy]

17 minutes ago, 1972coronet said:

Who's idea was it to switch horse's midstream from it's original post ?

Me me me me me.

I mentioned something about the increasingly popular incorrect use of "aircrafts" as the plural of "aircraft", and it just went from there. 

EDIT: And, ummmm...it's "whose".    

Edited 7 hours ago by Ace-Garageguy

[1972coronet]

4 minutes ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

Me me me me me.

I mentioned something about the increasingly popular incorrect use of "aircrafts" as the plural of "aircraft", and it just went from there. 

EDIT: And, ummmm...it's "whose".    

I was being facetious ! Haha.

[Ace-Garageguy]

Just now, 1972coronet said:

I was being facetious ! Haha.

Mee two.  

[John M.]