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Keith Barrow wrote: in their
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:innocent whistle:
I've actually been trolling DD, but he rarely bights.
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There, their, they're... It's gotten to the point I do not care anymore 
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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You're doing it wrong.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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That's what my wife says too.
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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Still? Didn't you learn anything from watching the burros in Oatman, PJ? 
Will Rogers never met me.
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PJ was in Oatman? 
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Yeah, that was one crazy trip. 4 days to Arizona and back. Good times. 
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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Yep! He got a wild hair up his nether orifice and took off on a road trip; ended up here and we went to Oatman to visit the wild, free-range Democrats. A good time was had by all, I hope. I certainly enjoyed it!
Will Rogers never met me.
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Oh, how you malign the wildlife. 
I think we last visited Oatman about a year ago*, on our way back from Vegas. Finally drove over that big new bridge too.
* FaceBook tells me it was last July.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Hehehe... well, I don't have a problem maligning those wildlifes - burros or Democrats, they're all jackasses to me.
I haven't been through Oatman for about a year or so. The last time was probably Jan - Feb 2013, as I took my new Savage .243 Axis out for a test shoot after work one evening on the way home. Boundary Cone Road is the main road to Oatman from my office, being the original Route 66, but it continues on to Kingman and points East. Immediately after leaving the town, though, there's a dirt road to the left that goes to Bullhead City called Silver Creek Road. There are a number of spots along that road where it's safe and legal to shoot. I haven't fired it since, as I really don't care for bolt action rifles, and haven't had much reason to visit Oatman either. Since I got the .243 BLR and .30-06 BAR I've been really intent on becoming proficient with them, and that requires a formal range. Happily, there are two on Boundary Cone Road - one near my office, and the other in Golden Valley. The close one is good for general shooting, but the one in Golden Valley has a 1000 yard range, which both of my favorite calibers are designed to reach accurately. I hope one day to be competent to shoot that range with either.
Will Rogers never met me.
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I'm a guy, everything I do is wrong
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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You're a married guy; it makes a difference. A single guy can at least enjoy his delusions about being right once in a while.
Will Rogers never met me.
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You're using wrong incorrectly
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Saw a t-shirt recently printed with:
There and Their
They're Not the Same
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How do you console a grammarian: There, their, they're.
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A noble and valiant attempt but an impossible one, language never stays the same and evolves continuously.
If I compare the sort of things you get to hear when they show snippets on TV from, for example, the news in the 50's and 60's its very different from what we hear today.
Around here there is a lot of discussion these days the use of AN (standard or formal dutch) and dialects.
One group insists on the use of AN while others prefer dialects.
For the past 50 years schools have rigidly tried to enforce the use of AN and now people are complaining that our rich variety of dialects is disappearing. What else did they expect ?
Dialects are also disappearing because people are more mobile, communicate a lot more and see/hear a lot of stuff from very diverse sources than they used to.
It will keep changing, it happened with UK/Irish/Scottisch/American/Australian/Canadian/... English and equally with Afrikan/Flemisch/Dutch.
In the last case Dutch as spoken in the Netherlands and Flanders officially sticks to AN but still TV channels on both sides of the border usually provide subtitles for TV shows they air from the other side of the border. Something a lot of people do not like either but is ultimately inevitable.
Lots of grumbling as well about more and more "English" words being used here, not to mention youngsters extensively using "SMS" language.
No matter, it is inevitable and a hundred years from now people looking a current day newspaper will find them just as archaic as we do when we see when we see a reprint from 1914 (we got to see quite a few of those because of the 100th anniversary of the "great war").
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What I find interesting is if you say to yourself "I won't use this word" then it forces you to think of other words you can, and possibly should, use. It's a divergent exercise in that it expands the range of one's vocabulary instead of a convergent exercise where the wordset used shrinks.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Jokes apart, after spending the best part of a decade in non-English speaking countries I found my everyday vocabulary had shrunk. I stopped using what we would term as rich language as it would not be understood and so failed at the first hurdle.
When I returned to the UK, I had to relearn to speak proper like what I do now.
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You speak real good.
Actually I feel like that now. I can't use any of the rich, colourful terms we have in Oz becuase I just get blank stares, or worse: they just pick a random interpretation of what they think I said and go with it.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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"They just pick a random interpretation of what they think I said and go with it"
See what you get for actually talking to users?
Software Zen: delete this;
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Chris Maunder wrote: hey just pick a random interpretation of what they think I said and go with it.
Isn't that always the case? 
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Quote: The Death of English as we know it...
As who knows it - the originators or the bastardisers?
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There's an 'originator' of English? I'd love to meet him and have a few words about how he got some parts of his initial design wrong.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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