Why All the Cray-Cray Words?

Here is something I learned from twitter within moments of checking: at the top of this miserable air inversion, above this choking surface where it is never above freezing, the air is 55 degrees!

The WS would never get around to telling us that any other way.

Now I just have to figure out how to rise to 5,000ft without this lazyboy over shooting its mark again!

Steve
 
Good Heavens!

There is a virus sweeping thru our pig population. China has just reported its first case so it is spreading. Iowa vet prof says that the US farms are on track to lose 1 million pigs this year. Without a vaccine, the numbers could be 3 or 4 x that.

There goes the bacon . . .

Steve
 
The protesters in the Ukraine just might pull this off!

Indication the church is getting involved.

And I have a really cool picture of the first seaplane taking off in 1911! Well, 5,000ft here I come! But first, that second cup of coffee.

Steve

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You take off a few days to go visit family and miss out on a lot in here. Still it was a good trip. Myuch as I enjoy the people here, I’ll take family.


Going way back to the start of this thread, to me the purpose of communications is to communicate. As such, you need to use the language the people you are talking to understand. The English language is very precise when used correctly. You can say precisely what you want to say, but it doesn’t do any good if the people you are talking to don’t understand the meaning. I’m going to cull two young roosters later today, after it warms up a bit. How many of you thought I just said I’m going to kill them? I’m not, at least until Friday. I’m going to remove them from my breeding flock so I can soon start saving hatching eggs from the rooster I want to be the sire.


Red, I understand what you are saying about the language. To be clear, a sentence should have a subject and a verb, and they should match. A pronoun should be used in a way you understand what noun it is standing in for. I’m a little more lax on ending sentences with propositions as you can probably tell. The purpose of communications is to clearly communicate, otherwise people misunderstand what is being said and arguments and disagreements can ensue even if the two people agree.


The only social media I use are this forum and BYC, e-mail rarely, and the telephone, occasionally phone mail if people screen their calls to the point they won’t answer a call. Otherwise it is face to face conversations. I don’t post much personal information, more on this forum than any other place. Just look at my avatar. How personal is that? I just don’t feel comfortable posting something as personal as my granddaughter’s photo on here, though I did it once for Smiles, although my daughter-in-law has it all over facebook. That just shows what a dinosaur I am.
 
I don't know about dinosaurs, any one of us, RidgeRunner. What kind of "proposition" are you ending your sentences with? “This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.” ~ W. Churchill

Was that "cull a rooster" an example of clear English easily understood or an attempt at clear understanding that is likely to fail?

Need for openness? Shoot. I am ordering underwear today (sizes & styles are a little difficult to find at the mall or Sears so, once again, I have to go with Penney's online). I was just thinking that I don't need to inform DW on my preferences and difficulties. This is someone I live with.

One shares what one chooses, unless one is a plumber . . . .

I am just trying to decide if I want to contact a cousin. His email may have been changed in the 5 years or so since we last exchanged notes. His address may still be current, we don't move as often as we change email accounts, I suspect. He was on facebook but hasn't posted in 2 years. I never post on facebook because they jerked around my account & made me angry. Besides, there are several people in my high school graduating class with drinking habits or cats that I couldn't care less about.

Should I try to contact the cousin thru email/facebook or just forget about it? I sent a birthday card off to a high school friend who always gets at least a January b-day card or a Christmas card with a birthday wish each year. He has not used the USPS that I am aware of in 40 years! I sent him a stamp inside the card. I wonder if he can think of anything to do with it.

Just about any communication has some value to it - you can recognize that notion from what I put on TEG. I very much value how the internet connects me and my interests more completely to a larger world. Some of the communication "formats" have changed remarkably in the last 20 years -- and they are still changing. It goes beyond words! Email is now beginning to look like messaging! I continue to use both online texting thru Verizon and texting on my phone. But, I also send my kids email directly to their phone numbers. I hardly see a difference betweet texting and emailing except for what I do with my digitS' . . . don't do it? Don't pick up a phone? Stamp? Pencil? What is it that I should not learn?

I live within sight of a geographical feature called Signal Point. Before the owners of that private land closed access, I was there a number of times. Never sent up any smoke signals but I have some idea who I might have been communicating with, 200 years ago.

I have been reading a new book on pre-Roman Empire Celts. The author shares the idea, suggested by Julius Caesar, that large areas of what is now France, had folks communicating by voice. Yeah. Stand at the top of the valley and communicate with the people down below - they would carry the message to the village across the river. Someone there would relay it to the top of the next hill, across the plain to the guy downwind, and on and on and on . . . Over great distances and faster than soldiers on horseback could travel, said Caesar. By the Way, did you know that Celts had chariots superior to the Romans and their style was quickly adopted by the advancing imperialists?

The Romans were victorious . . . for awhile . . . so, they wrote the history. Another communication and one that looks remarkably skewed. Another BTW: we apparently know more now about the Celtic language of the Gauls than did any of those Romans who wrote about them . . . I suspect that computers are playing a role in that for the linguists. Yay for them!

Steve
& his alter ego, digitS'
 
Ridgerunner, it's not just the verbage. I realize that we have a living language and have no problem (okay, not much of a problem) with changes. It's all lower case letters in first names and all capitals in surnames or vice-versa. SMART red / smart RED /THE SUNRISE BY smart red/ SmartRed. I see much of it as a get even spit-in-the-face toward language teachers by the generation now running business, communication, politics, etc.

It is somewhat an issue of left-brain, right-brain. I love language, appreciate the rules, and embrace the exceptions. Of course, I love curved lines and interesting shapes in the garden. DH is mathematically inclined, prefers square corners and straight lines, and will 'balance' his plantings. He could never appreciate language rules simply because of all the exceptions. DH is the type of thinker who would be tickled to misuse capitals or turn letters upside down.

I don't think the current 'cutesy' fad will last into adulthood even though the worst offenders (on TV) should be old enough to be considered grown-ups... can we say Kardashian?

I have always preferred writing to any other form of communication. Face to face is a close second choice. I find E-mail acceptable because it is writing. I could never be happy on Twitter because of the limits on conversation. Correct spelling, punctuation, and complete sentences are a waste of Twitter space.
 
Oh heck, when Hayley gets here we'll probably be doing a whole lot of computer stuff together. She's all modernized. I also plan on switching to more broadband per month when she gets here with my satellite internet service.

Likely we will have at least 3 laptops and her smart phone plugged into my modem, therefore the need for the deluxe broadband. She will hopefully be working for the accounting company she now works for, but online when she gets here. They call that TELECOMMUTING.

We aren't sure how long she'll be here this first time, trying to be wise and stuff, but we think it'll work. She's a smart one! I'm the lucky one! As we all know, MOST OF US MEN ARE NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE WOMAN IN OUR LIVES. All we can do is be as good as we possibly can!

She still has her MARSHALLSGIRL setup here, but she always tells me she doesn't know enough about gardening to post anything. Maybe I can convince her to do some Australian wild plant photos to post.
 
Hayley is REAL PRETTY! Even in the photos of her she doesn't like she's real pretty!
 
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