It's georgia. Changing it now just for you. I've got video of him blowing a woodduck call this evening. 11 months old. Trying to figure out how to upload it from my phone
A Vocabulary & Word Usage Classroom?
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I stand corrected then. It's Idaho I bet that's what you meant to say. But I like the pic and I'm happy to see him doing some woodworking even if it's just testing calls for now . . . . . .
This is going to be hilarious and educational, go baby go!
Quit talking about @SENC
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I'm not a nerd then because I misused affect in my original post. Doc caught it, so it makes him the nerd and me just a nerd wannabe.
I'm not a nerd then because I misused affect in my original post. Doc caught it, so it makes him the nerd and me just a nerd wannabe.
You used it correctly once... You're a half nerd, but I'm not sure about the other half of you.
I think what we need is a woodworkers dictionary. I've spent a good bit of time looking up words that are wood related, with some definitions that had 3 more words that baffle me.
1) Chatoyance- I feel a little funny just saying it. I look it up and come up with another word, cabochon, which to me sounds like a character on one of the kids cartoons shows. "Oh, here comes Cabochon, and he's dressed with such chatoyance". Kind of scares me a little, LOL.
2) Pyrography- Sounds like something a lawyer would use to defend an arsonist.
3) CONUS- (yup, I looked this one up) The very first definition for it was a giant sea snail, LOL. I decided to read a bit further on that one.
1) Chatoyance- I feel a little funny just saying it. I look it up and come up with another word, cabochon, which to me sounds like a character on one of the kids cartoons shows. "Oh, here comes Cabochon, and he's dressed with such chatoyance". Kind of scares me a little, LOL.
2) Pyrography- Sounds like something a lawyer would use to defend an arsonist.
3) CONUS- (yup, I looked this one up) The very first definition for it was a giant sea snail, LOL. I decided to read a bit further on that one.
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It's in this very forum that you're in under a sticky titled Acronym List thanks to Marc.
I see that Doc already caught this one ... The affect his speech had on me seemed to be nonexistent for years. Only now am I seeing the effects of it; the seed he planted in me was not to sprout for many years.
Should be: The effect his speech had on me seemed to be nonexistent for years. Only now, many years later, I see it affected me greatly.
Did anyone notice this ... After all, whose honor can be redeemed who's too callus to listen to a man whom has been there and back?"
Should be "who has been ..." -- but it would be correct if you'd written "a man with whom I have been there and back"
I love language and grammar!
Should be: The effect his speech had on me seemed to be nonexistent for years. Only now, many years later, I see it affected me greatly.
Did anyone notice this ... After all, whose honor can be redeemed who's too callus to listen to a man whom has been there and back?"
Should be "who has been ..." -- but it would be correct if you'd written "a man with whom I have been there and back"
I love language and grammar!
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Way best Duncan! So further than, your the goodest nerd either any of us!
No joke you caught it all I think. Henry you've been fired again those Yankees seem to be better at Yankee language even than the best of us rebs.
No joke you caught it all I think. Henry you've been fired again those Yankees seem to be better at Yankee language even than the best of us rebs.
Not quite! I just noticed another: ... who's too callus to listen to a man ... (callus = a patch of hard skin; callous = insensitive, hard-hearted)
And what's with calling me a Yankee? (Lived latitude/longitude coordinates 53.5032, -2.3432 till I went to college.)
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You are what you eat, and living in Yankeeland you're eating Yankee food. Got it, Yankee?
You are what you eat, and living in Yankeeland you're eating Yankee food. Got it, Yankee?
Let me see ... burritos from Chipotle (usually once a week), Brasilian barbecue a couple of times a month, Indian lunch buffet once a month, Thai food, Chinese ... oh, and some icecream. Yeah, I guess the icecream counts as Yankee food. You're right
But... but... but... I eat oranges and they come from the south so I must have a little rebel in me....You are what you eat, and living in Yankeeland you're eating Yankee food. Got it, Yankee?
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They mostly come from Florida and California so you're actually a nutty retired yankee.
Not so fast, my friends, on the affect/effect argument. Either could be correct depending upon Kevin's intent. If he was describing how his speech influenced him, then affect would have been correct. If he was sharing that the speech caused something, effect would have been appropriate.
Henry, I understand that I can have an affect (in its noun-fulness), but I don't believe I can "have an affect on somebody/something".
IMO, correct usage would be something along the lines of: "The affect of his speech was emotionally turbulent, despite the calmness of his delivery."
1 tyme us went two @woodintyuuu cabin in da woodz 2 cut a cupla burlz Nick named 109.89I and 202.7.
It was after that intimate moment of cutting burls and watching grown mens faces light up like a kid on Xmas I realized grammar is for the birds.
It was after that intimate moment of cutting burls and watching grown mens faces light up like a kid on Xmas I realized grammar is for the birds.