What does this remind you of?

Ian

Ian

Notorious member
"Your" is possessive. Like "your hat", "your dog", etc.

"You are welcome" is the phrase, commonly contracted to "you're welcome" where the apostrophe denotes the deleted space and "a". This can be confusing because an apostrophe also denotes possession, such as "Rick's dog", but in reality the apostrophe STILL is only representing a contraction of two words and letters deleted to ease pronunciation...for in Old English we would say "Rick his dog" to refer to a dog that belonged to Rick.

You're welcome for today's free grammar and etymology lesson. :)
 
462

462

California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
I didn't see that. It was one of those cases in which the brain automatically corrects a misspelled word, or replaces an incorrect word with the proper one.

I've been reading Rick's stuff for more than a decade and know that was just a slip of the written word.
 
462

462

California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
Wonder what he thinks of my comma (over)usage.
 
Ian

Ian

Notorious member
Here's one you guys can have fun with: How many Ians does it take to change a lightbulb?
 
fiver

fiver

Well-Known Member
the Ian I know would only take one of [each] to change a light bulb.
but it'd be changed alright.
the threads would be re-cut, the bonding surfaces would get re-laid, and resurfaced to seal both sides of the contact patch, the filament would be double wound and silver soldered at the contact points.
and the frosting of the bulb would get a more uniform etching so the light was refracted in a more even and concise manner.

now if he could only get the Coates brothers to swing by with their video equipment, we could have a tutorial.
 
462

462

California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
Yep, Winelover does have a way with the comma. But that's okay.

Hyphen: I've been accused of creating unnecessary compound words.

Spelling has changed drastically, from when I was in grade school. For instance, cooperation used to be spelled co-operation, USA used to be U. S. A. At some point since, the hyphen, spaces and periods were deleted out of sheer typing laziness. That all happened decades before the advent of the cell-phone and its inventive spelling.

Mrs. Mitchell, my 8th grade English teacher would be appalled. But, then, she pronounced "says" exactly how it looks.
 
Ian

Ian

Notorious member
I'm terribly guilty of typing laziness when using abbreviations such as USA, in fact I usually only type "US".

Lamar, you forgot to mention my consternation upon finding the inadequacies of the socket once the lightbulb was removed, and what I would do about that including ripping the wiring out of the ceiling to replace with proper grounded Romex, rewiring the switch, and adding a new circuit from the panel so the bulb would stop dimming when the refrigerator kicks on.
 
waco

waco

Springfield, Oregon
Ian would first Re-engineer the light bulb, build the new design from scrap material laying around the house, squeeze out a few more watts then trash the whole idea and start over because he knows he can do it more efficiently.
 
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