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[Barry Hufker]

I am taking a chance that the forum "reason in audio" will allow odd reasoning about audio.

I learned about this today from www.musicthing.com

http://listen.to/headph0nes

Barry

[Ryan Leigh Patterson]

WTF!!

[JamSync]

Barry Hufker wrote on Fri, 26 August 2005 19:47

I am taking a chance that the forum "reason in audio" will allow odd reasoning about audio. I learned about this today from www.musicthing.com http://listen.to/headph0nes Barry

I hate people who use the word "orientated" rather than "oriented". Dumb grammar, dumb site.

[Barry Hufker]

Maybe it's something that started in Japan, Korea or one of those other countries in the orientate!   ;>)

Barry

[Greg Youngman]

JamSync wrote on Fri, 26 August 2005 17:21

Barry Hufker wrote on Fri, 26 August 2005 19:47 I am taking a chance that the forum "reason in audio" will allow odd reasoning about audio. I learned about this today from www.musicthing.com http://listen.to/headph0nes Barry I hate people who use the word "orientated" rather than "oriented". Dumb grammar, dumb site.

Or "prostrate" instead of "prostate".
Or "irregardless" instead of "regardless".
Or "could care less" instead of "couldn't care less".
Or "fustrated" instead of "frustrated".

[JamSync]

Greg Youngman wrote on Sat, 27 August 2005 03:03

Or "prostrate" instead of "prostate". Or "irregardless" instead of "regardless". Or "could care less" instead of "couldn't care less". Or "fustrated" instead of "frustrated".

Or "flustrated".  

Or "snuck".  Especially "snuck".

[r.baby]

JamSync wrote on Sat, 27 August 2005 08:32

Greg Youngman wrote on Sat, 27 August 2005 03:03 Or "prostrate" instead of "prostate". Or "irregardless" instead of "regardless". Or "could care less" instead of "couldn't care less". Or "fustrated" instead of "frustrated". Or "flustrated".   Or "snuck".  Especially "snuck".

Or ... nucular?

[zmix]

JamSync wrote on Fri, 26 August 2005 20:21

I hate people who use the word "orientated" rather than "oriented". Dumb grammar, dumb site.

Really?
Do you also hate people who use "Aluminium" instead of "Aluminum"?
"Preventative" instead of "Preventive"


The language is called English, after all.

[Barry Hufker]

OK, the grammar thing is interesting, but you guys are missing the point.  This post is about a headphone fetish site.  CATCH ON!!

With regard to English, zmix you should know the word coined by the British was and is "aluminium."  It is we Americans who changed it.  It is ENGLISH after all.

And add "Nauseous."  Strictly speakingm, people are nauseated or become nauseated.  "Nauseous" means to induce nausea.

BUT!  Back to the headphone fetish thing.  Why are you wasting such a good topic on language?  I am going to have to put this in Fletcher's forum where people appreciate a good fetish!

Barry

[LDBF]

To go back off topic breifly, the reason why you Yanks cant get the "Aluminium" thing, apparently, is due to a typo back in the day... the crates carrying some to the new world were mis labelled, and it stuck...  

[t(h)ik]

Actually we changed it so it wouldn't be confused with the parts they use in the British space programmmmeee

[Ronny]

Barry Hufker wrote on Sat, 27 August 2005 09:27

OK, the grammar thing is interesting, but you guys are missing the point.  This post is about a headphone fetish site.  CATCH ON!! With regard to English, zmix you should know the word coined by the British was and is "aluminium."  It is we Americans who changed it.  It is ENGLISH after all. And add "Nauseous."  Strictly speakingm, people are nauseated or become nauseated.  "Nauseous" means to induce nausea. BUT!  Back to the headphone fetish thing.  Why are you wasting such a good topic on language?  I am going to have to put this in Fletcher's forum where people appreciate a good fetish! Barry

Your only mistake is linking to headphones instead of  footphones.

[bobkatz]

Barry Hufker wrote on Sat, 27 August 2005 09:27

OK, the grammar thing is interesting, but you guys are missing the point.  This post is about a headphone fetish site.  CATCH ON!! With regard to English, zmix you should know the word coined by the British was and is "aluminium."  It is we Americans who changed it.  It is ENGLISH after all.

THIS IS UNTRUE. The discoverer of Aluminum, Hans Christian Oersted, spelled his element EXACTLY that way. It just happens that it was only the Americans who adopted that official spelling. It just happens that the British and most others decided to add the extra "i". In other words, "aluminum" is the correct spelling as authorized by the man who ORIGINALLY DISCOVERED THE ELEMENT! It is also spelled that way by most chemists and in the periodic table.



And add "Nauseous."  Strictly speakingm, people are nauseated or become nauseated.  "Nauseous" means to induce nausea.

BUT!  Back to the headphone fetish thing.  Why are you wasting such a good topic on language?  I am going to have to put this in Fletcher's forum where people appreciate a good fetish!

Barry[/quote]

[Barry Hufker]

OK, Bob.  I'll give you the history of the spelling, *but* it was Sir Humphrey Davy (Britain) who discovered in 1808 the existence of the metal and gave it the name Aluminum.  According to other sources I found, the word "aluminum" is only used in the U.S.  All other countries use "aluminium."  Oersted was the first to create pure samples of it.

Damn I'm competetive!

Barry

[CCC]

here are another couple of crimes against language;

apropos

and

penultimate


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.
...
.......

apropos does not mean appropriate....so if someone ever says 'that just wouldn't be apropos' then hit them in the head with a dictionary. it means 'with regard to the thing we are/were discussing'.

penultimate does not mean 'super duper cool - even more than ultimate!'...it means 'second last'. so if someone tells you that 'this microphone is the penultimate!' tell them you're sorry that it's been discontinued.