Gary, aka Onondaga, has passed away

[RBHarter]

All of that sentence diagraming back in skool . To me it seems if something is called a direct object it always seemed like it should have been what was told to do something vs what it was told to do . Directions to the object rather than the objects direction .........well I guess it doesn't matter , I've got now . Teacher failed to get it in my head for at least 6 years of skool and a jewlery caster on a casting forum schooled me in 3 sentences on a tiny little point , in a way that it made sense to me .

I guess I was just sharing a happy moment in 15 minutes of fame .

 

[Pistolero]

Don't worry about it. Nowdays they don't teach any grammar and nouns are routinely used as
verbs, and most folks under 40 or so have about a 3500 word vocabulary, and can't even
figure out or bother with capitalization.

Proper English seems to be rapidly dying - beaten to death by an iPhone strapped to a stick.

He sounds like an educated man who could pass it on easily.

 

[358156 hp]

Personal communication is being eliminated by impersonal communication. Our youth are losing the ability to communicate with people face to face. It's all being replaced by emoticons, GIFs, and phonetic acronyms. LOL? Ever notice how stressed millennials get when they have to actually communicate with somebody vocally? They're much more comfortable if they can do it online, or in other remote, impersonal ways. The real problem is that kids are so isolated anymore, and most seem to lack the self-confidence to function in the presence of others.

 

[Jeff H]

.................They're much more comfortable if they can do it online, or in other remote, impersonal ways. The real problem is that kids are so isolated anymore, and most seem to lack the self-confidence to function in the presence of others.

I teach, and one thing I insist upon is personal interaction - "we're all in this together and no one get out unscathed." I tell them up front that I seek out introverts, and I know who they are because I am one of them, and I suck them in. It seems to get more difficult every year. This last semseter, I struggled with a couple who seemed intelligent, but couldn't absorb anything I brought to them. It's gotten to be more work to introduduce people to reality than to teach them what they're going to DO in it. We had a breakthrough and I credit the Arts and Crafts period in the US but won't bore you with that story.

I keep wanting to day this - Gary had this overt but genuine way to cut to the chase which might have seemed arrogant to anyone who hadn't read his posts regularly. In one thread, I read - "you should just do it the way I do it and...."

That was SO Gary. I never interacted with him personally, but read a lot of his posts. I don't think he ever meant to be overbearing, yet he was. When he was, it was powerful but unthreatening. He was a good man in spite of the abuse he let roll off his back and the fact that he showed up for more of it over and over, and asserted what he felt he could back up, over and over, is a testament and a lesson. I'll say it - he irritated me sometimes, but that was me, not him. What a guy. I'll miss seeing his posts.

 

[Charles Graff]

Another ornery guy gone, to be missed for sure and for certain. We crossed vebal swords many times.