Pete J. Posted December 19, 2012 Posted December 19, 2012 "Me and Bubba went to the bar." "Santa gave my brother and I a present." AAAAAaaaaaargh! Ah yes, the old "I vs. me" conundrum that a lot of people have trouble with.
Gramps2u Posted December 19, 2012 Posted December 19, 2012 "It is, What it is" Ok then tell me what is it?!
Kit Basher Posted December 19, 2012 Posted December 19, 2012 "It is, What it is" Ok then tell me what is it?! That depends on what "is" is.
dodgefever Posted December 20, 2012 Posted December 20, 2012 I keep seeing people talking about "styrene" in reference to model kits. Styrene is a volatile liquid; I'd be surprised if anyone really has large quantities of styrene in their house. The word you are looking for is polystyrene. Before anyone says "it's just an abbreviation" - no, that would be 'styrene.
Repstock Posted December 21, 2012 Posted December 21, 2012 This isn't a touchy term, but about 50% of all misspellings I notice are covered by "lose" being spelled l-o-o-s-e. I think you will agree those are two very different things...To lose a girl to a breakup is different than breaking up because she's loose.
Danno Posted December 21, 2012 Posted December 21, 2012 This isn't a touchy term, but about 50% of all misspellings I notice are covered by "lose" being spelled l-o-o-s-e. I think you will agree those are two very different things...To lose a girl to a breakup is different than breaking up because she's loose. Well put, Tom. Also one of my pet peeves.
Harry P. Posted December 21, 2012 Posted December 21, 2012 Well put, Tom. Also one of my pet peeves. Your not alone, their are others who feel the same way...
Danno Posted December 21, 2012 Posted December 21, 2012 Your not alone, their are others who feel the same way... Your write. Me and my frenz feel the same weigh. You're grip sez it awl.
sjordan2 Posted December 21, 2012 Posted December 21, 2012 Well put, Tom. Also one of my pet peeves. I had a pet peeve once, but I had to put him down.
Harry P. Posted December 21, 2012 Posted December 21, 2012 I had a pet peeve once, but I had to put him down. Was he too heavy to carry?
JunkPile Posted December 21, 2012 Posted December 21, 2012 My pet peeve would not stop messing on the rugs.
sjordan2 Posted December 21, 2012 Posted December 21, 2012 Was he too heavy to carry? No, his spelling and grammar were atrocious.
Harry P. Posted December 21, 2012 Posted December 21, 2012 No, his spelling and grammar were atrocious. You should have home schooled him.
sjordan2 Posted December 21, 2012 Posted December 21, 2012 (edited) Hmmm. Maybe his paws were too big for the keyboard. I don't want to think about it. Anyway, back to the thread, sort of. There are also a number of subjects, not merely words, that seem to peeve some people around here. Today, someone revived an April thread on building or buying paint booths, and who would have thought it would have created such controversy? My recent thread on eye candy coming up at Barrett-Jackson seems to have inspired some B-J bashing. And you can always get a rise out of someone over what's true or not true about the General Lee. Etc. Edited December 21, 2012 by sjordan2
Guest Johnny Posted December 21, 2012 Posted December 21, 2012 This isn't a touchy term, but about 50% of all misspellings I notice are covered by "lose" being spelled l-o-o-s-e. I think you will agree those are two very different things...To lose a girl to a breakup is different than breaking up because she's loose. Some people use their spelling abilities more losely than others is all.
James2 Posted December 21, 2012 Author Posted December 21, 2012 (edited) Some people use their spelling abilities more losely than others is all. losely or lusely? Edited December 21, 2012 by James2
Danno Posted December 21, 2012 Posted December 21, 2012 Some people use their spelling abilities more losely than others is all.
Gramps2u Posted December 22, 2012 Posted December 22, 2012 I just accept the differences and move forward. life is too short.
Guest Johnny Posted December 22, 2012 Posted December 22, 2012 I just accept the differences and move forward. life is too short. Amen to that!
Guest Johnny Posted December 22, 2012 Posted December 22, 2012 Hear hear! That one gets me rankled whenever someone refers to an engine as a motor. You mean the very first "motor cars" were electric???
Repstock Posted December 22, 2012 Posted December 22, 2012 It also bugs me quite a bit when decals or models are presented as 1/24-1/25 scale. Even though models may not scale out exactly to either scale, I'd at least like to know what scale they're TRYING to represent. I really don't want to buy, say, a Trans Am decal sheet, find out it's actually 1/24, and end up with an overly large bird on my 1/25 Trans Am. Or a tiny bird if it happens in reverse. Certainly whoever did the artwork must have had a specific Trans Am model in mind when making the sheet! I know of an eBay resin seller that uses 1/24-1/25 scale to describe his resin cars, some of which represent, or are modified from, models of a known or stated scale, usually 1/25. Why not just say 1/25? Again, I know models aren't scaled perfectly, but I also know I can get more 1/25 cars on a shelf than 1/24, so there must be a difference! I can't imagine looking at a Lonestar on the shelf with the box claiming it was faithfully scaled using manufacturer's Cad drawings to an exact 1/24-1/25 scale.
sjordan2 Posted December 22, 2012 Posted December 22, 2012 You mean the very first "motor cars" were electric??? Actually, yes: "Before the pre-eminence of internal combustion engines, electric automobiles held many speed and distance records. Among the most notable of these records was the breaking of the 100 km/h (62 mph) speed barrier, by Camille Jenatzy on April 29, 1899 in his 'rocket-shaped' vehicle Jamais Contente, which reached a top speed of 106 km/h (66 mph). Before the 1920s, electric automobiles were competing with petroleum-fueled cars for urban use of a quality service car.[21] Proposed as early as 1896 in order to overcome the lack of recharging infrastructure, an exchangeable battery service was first put into practice by Hartford Electric Light Company for electric trucks. The vehicle owner purchased the vehicle from General Electric Company (GVC) without a battery and the electricity was purchased from Hartford Electric through an exchangeable battery. The owner paid a variable per-mile charge and a monthly service fee to cover maintenance and storage of the truck. The service was provided between 1910 to 1924 and during that period covered more than 6 million miles. Beginning in 1917 a similar service was operated inChicago for owners of Milburn Light Electric cars who also could buy the vehicle without the batteries.[22] In 1897, electric vehicles found their first commercial application in the U.S. as a fleet of electrical New York City taxis, built by the Electric Carriage and Wagon Company of Philadelphia. Electric cars were produced in the US by Anthony Electric, Baker, Columbia, Anderson, Fritchle, Studebaker, Riker, Milburn, and others during the early 20th century. Despite their relatively slow speed, electric vehicles had a number of advantages over their early-1900s competitors. They did not have the vibration, smell, and noise associated with gasoline cars. They did not require gear changes, which for gasoline cars was the most difficult part of driving. Electric cars found popularity among well-heeled customers who used them as city cars, where their limited range was less of a disadvantage. The cars were also preferred because they did not require a manual effort to start, as did gasoline cars which featured a hand crank to start the engine. Electric cars were often marketed as suitable vehicles for women drivers due to this ease of operation. In 1911, the New York Times stated that the electric car has long been recognized as "ideal" because it was cleaner, quieter and much more economical than gasoline-powered cars.[23] Reporting this in 2010, the Washington Postcommented that "the same unreliability of electric car batteries that flummoxed Thomas Edison persists today."
Craig Irwin Posted December 23, 2012 Posted December 23, 2012 In the strickist form "automobile" translates to "self moving", and steam powered automobiles predate electrics by over 100 years.
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