Drivin' me buggy

[bernie moore]

"This thread should be shot with a 35mm." I disagree; perhaps a 50 cal.

[William Kahn]

<p>Joe, Matt got it right. "Lense" is an archaic but correct alternative to "lens". So there (cue sound of Bronx cheer)............</p>

[User_276104]

<p>I think it's only people in the U.S. that say "Nye-kon". Even Canadians I know say "Nee-kon" (as do the Japanese).</p>

[john schroeder]

<p>I love the ever popular... "How far can I see with this lens?"</p>

[William Kahn]

<p>"How far can I see with this lens?"</p>

<p>"On a clear day, you can see forever"......</p>

[josephwalsh]

<p>Right William, and Chaucer spelled April "Aprille" but in the 14th century that was the modern spelling, not archaic.<br>

Besides, Geoff didn't know an f stop from a farthing.</p>

[jackaldridge]

<p>My wife and daughter were shopping at one of the big mall stores looking at jewelry when my daughter (jokingly!) told my wife..."Wow! Look at all the beautiful 'necklae'...." The young lady behind the counter gasped and said... "Is that the plural of necklace?" My daughter (bless her heart!) said "Why yes...the plural of necklace is necklae..." As my wife and daughter walked away later they heard the young woman ask another shopper if she was 'interested in looking at necklae'...<br>

Maybe it's better just to let the folks who don't know better go for it...after all it sure makes it easier to seperate the wheat from the.... darn! How do you spell 'chaff'?</p>

[patrick_stack]

<p>And if I ever had a deja vu, I'd remember it.</p>

<p>PS</p>

[don_e]

<p>In English the regular way to form a plural noun is to append an 's' to it, but a singular that ends in an 's', such as 'lens', presents complications, so the 'es' ending may be used for the plural. Then the 'error' of 'lense' is possible because the regular way to indicate the plural is to append an 's' to the singular which leaves the singular quite logically 'lense'. English is heaven for a spelling-Nazi.</p>

<p>What is far more important than standard spelling is grammar and punctuation especially with pnet's international membership -- and we native English speakers ought to be grateful to those here whose first or even second language is not English, and perhaps nothing close to it, for putting up with the slacker txt msg babbling of some posts as they ask or answer questions or offer advice.</p>

<p>Spelling errors can be overcome by the reader using commonsense, but chaotic grammar and punctuation turns it into a babble of baby-talk.</p>

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[josephwalsh]

<p>Gallup surveyed with this question:<br /> "What do you think is America's gravest problem, ignorance or apathy?"<br /> Half the people said they didn't know, other half said they didn't care.</p>

[User_276104]

<p><em>"Spelling errors can be overcome by..." - - - </em> using www.dictionary.com, too. </p>

<p>The MacBook we have has kind of become my wife's computer (I'm always on my ancient Dell 8100). She'll ask me how to spell something and I get in trouble for reminding her that there is a dictionary on a Mac. I even put the shortcut on the Desktop.</p>

<p>I jinxed my earlier gripe about "sample" and "copy". A thread in the Nikon forum was riddled with it today.</p>

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[don_e]

<p><em>""Spelling errors can be overcome by..." - - - </em> using www.dictionary.com, too."</p>

<p>Dictionary doesn't help if you don't know how to spell the word. Horses for courses and dictionaries for definitions.</p>

[William Kahn]

<p>"I think it's only people in the U.S. that say "Nye-kon". Even Canadians I know say "Nee-kon" (as do the Japanese)."</p>

<p>So, how come we pronounce Nikon "nye-kahn", but pronounce Nissan "nee-sahn", hmm?</p>

[Larry_G1664882113]

<p>And, all right is not alright.<br>

What's this about? Get yourself a copy of E.B. White's <em>Elements of Style. </em>It's the thin writing bible for thinkers.<em> </em></p>

[constance_cook]

<p>The Japanese pronunciation is knee-cone and kah-known. The camera company is correct.</p>

<p>Conni</p>

[dan_b.4]

<p>"So, how come we pronounce Nikon 'nye-kahn', but pronounce Nissan 'nee-sahn', hmm?"</p>

<p>The presence of the single consonant or double consonant is the cue as to how the vowel preceding is pronounced. One consonant = long vowel sound, i.e., the letter "i" is pronounced like "eye," while two consonants = short vowel sound, so the "i" in Nissan should sound more like the "i" in the word "is" rather than as "ee." I've also been told that Nippon Kogaku created the word "Nikon" specifically for consumers in the Western hemisphere and that the intended pronunciation is "Nye-kon" because the assumption was that Westerners wouldn't or couldn't pronounce the word in any way that actually sounded like the Japanese pronunciation.<br>

The easiest way to remember any pronunciation of any non-English word, though, is that the correct pronunciation is the opposite of whichever way the British pronounce it. ;)</p>

 

[david_volkmann]

<p>Wow I just read this entire thread..... there's 10 mins of my life I will never get back.</p>

[GerrySiegel]

<p>You want pet peeves. I gonna give you pet peeves.</p>

<p>Tech jargon I learn to love. 1)"form <strong>factor</strong> '' 2)" price <strong>point</strong> " 3) "<strong>steep</strong> learning curve" ( what, no shallow -slope learning curve? How about a negative slope for oldtimers. And,to make me do an LOL, a speech given at a luncheon by actor " Jon <strong>Voight</strong> ." It is <strong>Voigt...</strong> Little known history is that Jon's ancestors invented the Voigtlander line mit an umlaut line :-)</p>

<p>Then too I gotta love them " <strong>marco </strong> lenses"...We all know by now that Marco Polo discovered the first closeup focus lens when he looked at lotus blossoms through convex glass in Peking on his travels to the court of Kubla Khan....;-)</p>

[don_e]

<p>"What's this about? Get yourself a copy of E.B. White's <em>Elements of Style. </em> It's the thin writing bible for thinkers."</p>

<p>And his writing in the book is full of violations of his own rules therein.</p>

 

[michael_dimarzio]

<p>Mine is after shooting film for 35 years some pud with a digital camera in 2003 had to rename my cameras to analoug or analog.</p>

<p>I don't mind bad grammar or spelling, after all it's English and this is why our language evolves so quickly, but the stinking audacity to change the name of of film becasue somebody has a d16.33464 is just lame.</p>

<p>There isn't even a basic understanding there of digital or film, guess what! It's only a numbering system for recording your images. Maybe somebody will create a memory card base * and then we can call it Octel Photography, Hexidecimal Photography, or Binary Photography. Oh crappola where's my meds....</p>

[mohir_ali]

<p >You Think English is Easy?<br />Can you read these right the first time? <br /><br />1) The bandage was wound around the wound. <br />2) The farm was used to produce produce. <br />3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse. <br />4) We must polish the Polish furniture. <br />5) He could lead if he would get the lead out. <br />6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert. <br />7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present . <br />8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum. <br />9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes. <br />10) I did not object to the object. <br />11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid. <br />12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row . <br />13) They were too close to the door to close it. <br />14) The buck does funny things when the does are present. <br />15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line. <br />16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow. <br />17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail. <br />18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting, I shed a tear. <br />19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests. <br />20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend? <br /> <br />Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or french fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. <br /> <br />And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? <br /><br />If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? <br /><br />Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? <br /><br />If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it? <br /> <br />If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? <br /><br />If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? <br /><br />Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? <br /> <br />How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? <br /><br />You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out, and in which an alarm goes off by going on. <br /> <br />English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. <br /> <br />Why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "quick" <br /> <br />You lovers of the English language might enjoy this . <br /> <br />There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is "UP." <br /> <br />It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP? At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report ? <br /> <br />We call UP our friends. And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver; warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car . At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed UP is special. <br /> <br />And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP . We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night. <br /> <br />We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP! To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP , look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions. If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more. <br /><br />When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP . When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP. When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP. When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP . <br /><br />We could go on, but I'll wrap it UP, for now my time is UP, so... Time to shut UP .! <br />Oh... one more thing: <br /><br />What is the first thing you do in the morning & the last thing you do at night? U-P</p>

[tomscott]

<p>I'm still waiting to hear of a gruntled employee. I've heard of plenty of disgruntled employees but never a gruntled one.</p>

[don_e]

<p><a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gruntle">disgruntled?</a></p>

[tomscott]

<p>Well I'll be damned! I just <em>rechecked</em> The New American College Dictionary and The American Heritage Dictionary and neither included it.</p>