Stupid forum lingo that should just die out already

TheHoff wrote in post #5526730
Number of threads where people "pulled the trigger" in the thread title: 77

Hmm... seems low.

TheHoff wrote in post #5526730
Number of threads where people "pulled the trigger" in the thread title: 77

You made me think.

Number of threads with "aperature" in the title 55. "Lense" 293. "Cannon" 146. "Brown Truck" 29.

And that's just in the title.

"Duck Shot" - 144

Noink or any variation on the spelling. It's nikon people, it's just a brand like every thing else out there. gee using the correct name isn't going to make it a better camera.

The other bug, which I must say doesn't happen here is use the use of txt words. it seems that most people can use the full word.

that gets my goat no end.

Nifty fifty or thrifty fifty is just flat out annoying

JeffreyG wrote in post #5526384
They can't do magic? Nuts.

The bigger problem I have with "lense" is that my doggone Websters Third New International Dictionary which weighs even more than a Bigma states that "lense" is an OK alternate spelling of "lens".

Yep...'lense' is a synonym for 'lens', so all the gripers need to chill on that one

http://dictionary.refe​rence.com/browse/lense

Glass.

What... you buy a bay window or something?

It's a freakin' lens.

argyle wrote in post #5528504
Yep...'lense' is a synonym for 'lens', so all the gripers need to chill on that one

http://dictionary.refe​rence.com/browse/lense

Of course, these are the same people who once approved the use of "cigaret" as an alternative spelling for "cigarette," and were laughed out of the lexicographers' club.

That's one of the reasons I use the Random House Unabridged.

Sorry, but "lense" is not an acceptable alternative for "lens" in the photographic sense. There are NO photographic lens manufacturers who put the word "lense" on their product.

"Lense" is an alternative spelling of "lens" ONLY in a biomedical context, and even there its use is discouraged.

This is similar to the usages where a house can have two TV antennas, but an ant has two antennae. Different things, different usages.

theflyingkiwi wrote in post #5528110
Noink or any variation on the spelling. It's nikon people, it's just a brand like every thing else out there. gee using the correct name isn't going to make it a better camera.

Actually, it's "Nikon," not "nikon." Proper names are always capitalized in English.

Myself, I simply refer to them as "the other camera company." A trick I stole from National Semiconductor, who once offered mainframe computers painted "Other Computer Company Blue."

...just wondering what circumcision my 77-mm CPL will be on a full crop lense

As for the "Brown Truck," I have no quarrel with that. Especially when it's coming up my driveway.

Driving one, however, is not a good job for anyone named "Charles." Poor Charlie would forever be known as "UPS Chuck"!

garbidz wrote in post #5528917
...just wondering what circumcision my 77-mm CPL will be on a full crop lense

Not a problem unless it's Jewish, or perhaps Catholic.

20droger wrote in post #5528902
Actually, it's "Nikon," not "nikon." Proper names are always capitalized in English.

Myself, I simply refer to them as "the other camera company." A trick I stole from National Semiconductor, who once offered mainframe computers painted "Other Computer Company Blue."

I believe your full stops and commas should be outside the quotation marks.

Duncs wrote in post #5528960
I believe your full stops and commas should be outside the quotation marks.
:p

Awwww! Editorial snap!

Duncs wrote in post #5528960
I believe your full stops and commas should be outside the quotation marks.
:p

I agree, but that is not proper American English usage, and I am an American who writes for a living.

Periods (full stops) and commas go inside the quotes, colons and semicolons go outside the quotes, and question marks and exclamation points go inside the quotes if a part of the quoted material and outside the quotes if not.

There is only one case in American English where periods or commas go outside the quotes, and that is when what is quoted is to be taken as specific characters, not as a word.

Also, in American English, we use double quotes as the basic quote form, with single quotes as internal quotes, alternating accordingly. I believe you Brits do the reverse in formal writing.

Of course, the majority of the posters in these forums don't use and wouldn't recognize proper English, be it American, British, or other dialect. The whole thing is therefore rather moot.

I'm just grateful when they make some attempt to use English at all. When they don't, I simply ignore them, even if I understand what they are asking and know the answer to their questions.

I don't do texting.