Zeealex Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 (edited) A little bit of Daily Education from Captain Pointless (me) Aircraft Plural: Aircraft Refers to any flying machine, fixed wing or rotor wing Airplane Plural: Airplanes The American term for a fixed wing Aircraft (excluding Gliders) Aeroplane Plural: Aeroplanes. The British Term for a Fixed wing Aircraft (excluding Gliders) Plane Plural: Planes A Flat, Squared Surface, or a tool, commonly used by carpenters. I Hope you found today's pointless education, enlightening. No, not digging at anyone, just annoys me hearing it in movies, Oh and the news, the news people are notorious for it. Edited February 5, 2013 by Zeealex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnTC02 Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 So that gives a whole new meaning to Snakes on a Plane Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeealex Posted February 5, 2013 Author Share Posted February 5, 2013 hahahaha! ​ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WytchDokta Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 (edited) Can we get posts for the differences between: - their, there, and they're - your and you're - two, to and too - our and are - who and whom - piece and peace - who's and whose - quiet and quite - were, where and we're - stable and stable (this is a good one) It's not exactly rocket science. I even know the difference between all them and I failed my English exam at school (yet I passed foreign language exams with flying colours.... yet I'm English. So how it happened that I'd scored much higher grades in foreign languages I dunno) Edited February 6, 2013 by WytchDokta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RileyFletcher_01 Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 Your not the only one fed up with there lack of understanding of proper grammer. I think I seen these mistakes to many times to even care anymore, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WytchDokta Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 (edited) Your not the only one fed up with there lack of understanding of proper grammer. I think I seen these mistakes to many times to even care anymore, though. Aye sea wot j00 did they're. Now you just need to omit all vowels from words (so the forum post becomes a text message) and combine three paragraphs into one long sentence without using any commas or full stops. Only then will your modern English be understood by the masses. What gets me is the amount of people who achieved higher grades than me in English that continuously make the mistakes we're talking about, same with the misuse of grammer. I should be the one who confuses the likes of your and you're, and doesn't use grammar correctly considering I failed my English exam at school, but it isn't so. Edited February 6, 2013 by WytchDokta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blame Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 We need Grammar Nazi's to correct all of our typo's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WytchDokta Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 So yeah, I'm a Nazi because I want people to be understood by using correct English? I'm also a Nazi because I'm a gabber and involved in the underground music scene, according to the outsiders who don't even know a single thing about the scene or the music. For a start the word gabber is a Yiddish word meaning 'friend.' It's like, if I spoke/wrote in my Westcountry English to everyone, no-one outside of the Westcountry would understand me, hence I speak/write in 'normal' English, whatever 'normal' is, so everyone can understand me. And BTW, your ideology means that your English teacher (or any for that matter, correcting mistakes in any subject) is also a Nazi. Am I right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeealex Posted February 6, 2013 Author Share Posted February 6, 2013 (edited) I'm more of a pointless education on anything aircraft related, but I can do, grammar. I'm bad at Grammar though random commas in random places, the wrong use of apostrophes in 'its' etc. Edited February 6, 2013 by Zeealex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teppe Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 (edited) We need Grammar Nazi's to correct all of our typo's. ###### are you talking about?! Edited February 6, 2013 by teppe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WytchDokta Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 I'm more of a pointless education on anything aircraft related, but I can do, grammar. I'm bad at Grammar though random commas in random places, the wrong use of apostrophes in 'its' etc. Well that's an easy one - it's is a shortened version of it is. Its is the possessive form of it: the book lost its cover, not the book lost it is (it's) cover. Just to confuse matters even further, the word its isn't plural, while we normally use the -s ending to denote plurals in modern English (from the Norman/French influence over the language (you've got William the Conqueror to thank for that), in which other words were changed completely - thou (you, based on Old Norse) was changed to you (the pronounciation was changed aswell) to be in-line with the Norman/French vous. There are exceptions though, like the plural version of the word for child, which still retains its Anglo-Saxon plural ending: children. This one is for Blame. So tell me, Blame, is the Nazi Regime in fact still active? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blame Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 I don't know, but there are Grammar Nazi's all over the world trying to keep the internet clean of typo's. They really seem to hate if someone says your instead of you're*, meh..I don't mind I'm used to that.Teppe, what do you mean what am I talking about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeealex Posted February 6, 2013 Author Share Posted February 6, 2013 okay guys I've let this run for a little too long, can we get back on the original topic being discussed please. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnTC02 Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 As requested by Alex can we please keep this the discussion to the topic in hand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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