Gears?

Why has gears so recently crept into these forums?

Am I missing something?

No more than usual.

Gears? We got gears!

yogestee wrote in post #11445934
Why has gears so recently crept into these forums?

Am I missing something?

the furthest i can trace it back is about 4 yrs from a member named Tareq,

who's first language was not english and i think it just caught on from there

"Gears" is one of the least offensive English faux pas that are seen here. Many others, not so much.

The list is too long and varied to type out!

Gears and lense are the ones that annoy me most though

^^^^^

And not forgetting aperature

While we're on poor grammar and spelling, recently in a thread someone wrote cannon.. Lower case c and double nn..

yogestee wrote in post #11453532
^^^^^

And not forgetting aperature

While we're on poor grammar and spelling, recently in a thread someone wrote cannon.. Lower case c and double nn..

And he did a bang-up job of it!

20droger wrote in post #11454521
And he did a bang-up job of it!

Funny that.. What's written in big white letters on the front of his camera??

yogestee wrote in post #11454569
Funny that.. What's written in big white letters on the front of his camera??

What's written in big black letters on every box a lens comes in? It ain't "lense"!!!

yogestee wrote in post #11453532
^^^^^

And not forgetting aperature

While we're on poor grammar and spelling, recently in a thread someone wrote cannon.. Lower case c and double nn..

I had Canon spelled that way when I first started. It never occurred to me that it might be spelled differently. Only when someone told me it was wrong did I then realize my mistake. Maybe politely informing them of their mistake (by PM perhaps to avoid public notice) would go a long way, rather than mocking them in another thread. I seriously doubt they intended any ill will for their mishap; I know I didn't.

Cannon - is probably an acceptable one after all that is the more common spelling (apart from amongst photographers) so it is easy for the mind to slip into it.

The others - not so much.

20droger wrote in post #11446895
"Gears" is one of the least offensive English faux pas that are seen here. Many others, not so much.

I don't know why, but the phrase "English faux pas" seems really odd to me.

Honestly, for a non-native speaker, it seems pretty easy to assume that adding an "s" to the end would be the correct plural form. Gears is the plural form of gear when when we are talking about those things in a transmission, so you can see how one could make that mistake.

You guys need a hobby to get your minds off of all this insignificant stuff(s).

We have a hobby. Indeed, we have a plurality of hobbies. One of them is being annoyed by grammatical errors.