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04/07/2007 08:25:37 AM · #1 |
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04/02/2007 05:29:17 PM · #2 |
Originally posted by Artyste:
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
I love when old threads suddenly come back to life :-) |
Especially ones with a more humorous bent that someone, a year later, takes way too seriously because they didn't bother to read anything *in* the thread. |
Boy aren't you looking through a rose coloured lense?
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03/31/2007 06:03:12 PM · #3 |
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
I love when old threads suddenly come back to life :-) |
Especially ones with a more humorous bent that someone, a year later, takes way too seriously because they didn't bother to read anything *in* the thread. |
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03/31/2007 05:34:36 PM · #4 |
I love when old threads suddenly come back to life :-)
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03/31/2007 05:27:43 PM · #5 |
Oh boy.
Okay,
both ways of saying it are correct.
Just like color and colour,
traveller and traveler.
They're both correct.
Generally if you live in the US you'd want to say it differently than if you live in... What is it? The UK? I don't know. Still, people here are from either place. Let's not start a big "My country is better than yours!" debate.
All countries have their faults and golden spots.
Let's not make a big spectacle out of peoples' ways of spelling things. |
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03/31/2007 03:59:45 AM · #6 |
Damn. You bastids. (That's an abusive expletive so I'm allowed to misspell it - not that that really helps anyone...)
I must have been suffering double interference, i.e. imagining that the lens spelling is a confusion with the local (Norwegian) word for 'lentil', so I've been writing lense. FWIW, the OED gives the same, germanic, lentil word as the etymological origin of English lens, on account of the shape.
The final 'e' spelling is convenient for those who are apostrophically challenged. Len's insistent on that.
Lenses is the plural because English nouns that end with sybillants take an 'e' before the plural 's'. (Like 'putz' and 'putzes').
I recently dumped a lot of red ink over three exam papers from top drawer Norwegian pupils. I made a general comment about watching out for the influence of liberal/conversational/American* English, as used in web foraums. I followed that up orally by saying that the use of the net is a gift for their English learning, but that I myself am almost totally uncritical of language produced by non-native users in the internet context - it's up to the Norwegian students (and their teachers, of course) to be critical of their gramatical standards.
*Nothing wrong with US English per se, but it's best to stick to one orthographic standard, at least in any given text. |
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01/27/2006 07:15:46 PM · #7 |
What really irritates me is people who cannot describe a situation without resorting to mimicking the situation, and preceding their mimicry with the word "like". Or worse, "so, like...".
I wish that such people would [so, like...] learn some adjectives!
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01/27/2006 06:44:57 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by Gordon:
Originally posted by Kavey:
If you wanto to be crass and use arse at least do it properly! ;oP |
Should that be crarse ? |
I almost typed it that way! LOL
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01/27/2006 04:42:15 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by Kavey:
If you wanto to be crass and use arse at least do it properly! ;oP |
Should that be crarse ? |
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01/27/2006 04:36:42 PM · #10 |
When i was a boy it was Lense
Now it seems to be lens
Never noticed the change over. I think i was off that day...
Kev
Message edited by author 2006-01-27 16:37:02.
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01/27/2006 04:32:42 PM · #11 |
I use "lens" too and have generally seen that spelling for camera lenses when referred to in photography magazines, shop catalogues etc.
Glasses (specs) lenses I tend to spell "lense".
Since it's essentially the same word I think people here (UK) do often use the spellings interchangeably though I too prefer "lens" for camera ones.
Don't know why really...
But "lense" for a camera lens doesn't bug me half as much as "ass" for arse. An ass is a donkey not a backside, for goodness' sake! If you wanto to be crass and use arse at least do it properly! ;oP
Message edited by author 2006-01-27 16:33:24.
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01/27/2006 04:16:55 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by pidge:
Originally posted by Palmetto_Pixels:
tuh-mah-toe nor puh-tah-toe. |
STOP!
You're spelling like Dan Quayle!!
:P J/K |
LOL... that's exactly what I was thinking as I was typing! |
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01/27/2006 03:48:13 PM · #13 |
No, no, no....
It's 'kill the lights'. |
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01/27/2006 03:47:48 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by Palmetto_Pixels:
tuh-mah-toe nor puh-tah-toe. |
STOP!
You're spelling like Dan Quayle!!
:P J/K
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01/27/2006 03:10:21 PM · #15 |
Originally posted by Marjo:
nuh uh...It's nee-ther eye-ther nor n-eye-ther, but ee-ther and nee-ther. :) |
Hmph
Some say it's where you're from, some say it's how you are raised, but for this Southern redneck...
It's n-eye-ther tuh-mah-toe nor puh-tah-toe. Nor is it correct to say puh-kahn or al-you-minie-um. The correct pronunciation is toe-may-toe, poe-tay-toe, pee-can, and a-loo-minum, n-eye-ther, and ee-ther.
And on the subject of on, the light is n-eye-ther awn nor awf, but can be ee-ther be left ahn or ahf.
:-P |
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01/27/2006 02:37:38 PM · #16 |
Originally posted by Palmetto_Pixels:
Originally posted by cpanaioti:
Originally posted by Marjo:
either - ee'-ther
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eye - ther
neither = n - eye - ther
;oD |
It's n-eye-ther eye-ther nor nee-ther, but ee-ther and n-eye-ther.
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nuh uh...It's nee-ther eye-ther nor n-eye-ther, but ee-ther and nee-ther. :) |
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01/27/2006 02:30:19 PM · #17 |
Originally posted by cpanaioti:
Originally posted by Marjo:
either - ee'-ther
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eye - ther
neither = n - eye - ther
;oD |
It's n-eye-ther eye-ther nor nee-ther, but ee-ther and n-eye-ther. |
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01/27/2006 02:28:13 PM · #18 |
Originally posted by Marjo:
either - ee'-ther
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eye - ther
neither = n - eye - ther
;oD |
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01/27/2006 02:27:15 PM · #19 |
| While we're picking hairs... it's Pee-Can, not Puh-kahn (pecan)!!!! |
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01/27/2006 02:25:21 PM · #20 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Bugs the hell out of me too, truth be known, looks silly on the page. But it IS a valid and not especially uncommon spelling of the word.
Just out of curiosity, do you pronounce it "ee-ther" or "eye-ther", "to-mah-to" or "to-may-to"?
R. |
either - ee'-ther
tomato - to may' toe
I "seen" this thread and just had to post. This bugs me! |
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01/26/2006 10:12:01 AM · #21 |
| Bear to the rescue. Robert, you always come up with the correction. ;o) |
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01/26/2006 10:03:12 AM · #22 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Does anyone care? |
Actually, yes.
I find the language facinating. One reason I watch so much political commentary. I find the use of language to say what one is not really saying, but wanting others to believe that they are saying it, as a true art form. However, some concluded long ago...about...my thought processes.
;-}
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01/26/2006 09:14:44 AM · #23 |
Originally posted by cpanaioti:
Originally posted by polkop:
Originally posted by cpanaioti:
Originally posted by MPRPRO:
Yes but if it is Lens and not lense what would the plural of Lens be lensssssssss?
:)
Just me. |
No. Any word that ends in a consonant is pluralized by adding es. |
sheepes?? nope it is still sheep:) |
It's English. There's always an exception or two or a hundred. |
Say again? How about a couple million? The plural of jack is jacks. The plural of boat is boats. The plural of car is cars. The plural of egg is eggs. The plural of doughnut is doughnuts. The plural of chair is chairs. There are very few exceptions to the rule that, in English, a word ending with a consonant is pluralized by adding "s".
However, a word that ENDS with an "s" in its singular form is pluralized by adding "es"; thus lens becomes lenses, moss becomes mosses, hiss becomes hisses, gas becomes gasses (note that extra "s" sneaking in), and so forth. If one's on an enquiring spirit, one will discover that there are very few words in the English language that end with a single "s" in their singular form; usually it is two esses.
Then, of course, words that end in a "y" are pluralized "ies"; reality/realities, gravity/gravities, porperty/properties, and so forth.
Does anyone care? I doubt it. Time to stop being pedantic. :-)
R.
Message edited by author 2006-01-26 09:15:22. |
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01/26/2006 07:41:31 AM · #24 |
Originally posted by kari1:
You check something then write a cheque. :) |
Using your spell chequer...!
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01/26/2006 12:59:59 AM · #25 |
| You check something then write a cheque. :) |
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