Do you correct someone if they refer to a magazine as a clip?

Not my circus not my monkeys. People don't like to be corrected

Yes, and I always intervene in domestic disputes involving total strangers in public places. Because that's how I roll ...

Somethings you're just not going to change. Not worth the bother.
I mean, after that, then you'll have to get people to say cartridge and not caliber.

When people say "bullet", do you ask them to clarify whether they meant ammunition or projectile?

If I am teaching someone how to shoot, I would clarify the difference between magazine vs clip, ammunition vs projectile, reality vs Hollywood, etc.

If I just overhear someone saying "clip" when they mean "magazine", I smirk and go on with my life.

I've done it literally one time to someone who asked me "I wonder why its called a clip?" referring to the detachable magazine. I replied "technically a 'clip' is the piece of metal that holds a group of bullets together for loading rounds into an internal magazine". To which he stood with his eyes glazed over for a few seconds and replied "well I wonder why a magazine is called a magazine?". To which my eyes glazed over and I replied "that I don't know." And back to shooting we went.

Other than that, no, I couldnt care less if someone calls it a "clip". My WW2 Vet grandpa says "clip" referring to a magazine. I'll be damned if I'm going to correct him. Who cares.

Some ladies at work called my Suburban a "Truck" ... I told them it's a stationwagon that can seat 8 people with room for groceries or a SUV that can carry a lot of 4'x8' sheets of plywood or lumber.

bds said:

Some ladies at work called my Suburban a "Truck" ... I told them it's a stationwagon that can seat 8 people with room for groceries or a SUV that can carry a lot of 4'x8' sheets of plywood or lumber.

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And damn near everyone says "we takin' your car or mine?" referring to my truck.

I don't care. I don't correct their English either. Live and let live.

Only to friends

bds said:

Some ladies at work called my Suburban a "Truck"

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But, but, but it IS a truck. A truck that can seat 8 people and groceries.
It's built on a truck frame.
It has a truck powertrain.
It smells like a truck...
so it must be a truck.

But I thought truck came with a "bed" to carry cargo and not set up primarily to carry passengers - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truck

A truck is a motor vehicle designed to transport cargo.

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larryh1108 said:

It smells like a truck...

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Actually, my suburban smells like leather due to leather seats ... and wife's ram 1500 EcoDiesel "truck" still has that new "car" smell ...

I SURE do.
I also tell them they dress funny, smell bad, and have an ugly wife.

Seriously, I could care less.

Heck, growing up, I was corrected if I called a pick-up a truck. A truck had 6 or more tires. And who had pick-ups but farmers and contruction people. Or maybe someone who couldn't afford a car.
Oh, and gun racks with a gun or two, maybe a bow. And those holes on the bed walls were needed for stock racks.

It hurts.
I am both an engineering student and a writer. Proper terms have their proper use. One of the few things that makes me cringe more is 'alot'.
I don't often correct people, though. Not worth the headache.

Clip or magazine: in all of life's rich pageantry, it doesn't even get a first thought let alone a second one!

Politeness goes a LOOONG way.

What's the old saying,an armed society is a polite society?

Colloquially,different areas have different personalities WRT terminology.While I can appreciate everyone "being on the same page" if we're writing technical manuals.In daily life,these cultural differences are nice to have around.We have the ability here at the shop to design/build gauge metal "clips".....be they used as part of a machine,a kitchen gadget,or as part of a firearm.Getting hung up on terminology isn't moving us any closer twds the end product.But,can see how it bothers some folks?Just not that big a deal to me.

I do not correct anyone that call a magazine a clip.

Kaybee said:

Do you correct someone if they refer to a magazine as a clip?

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Only if it's seems likely that they are one of the very few people interested in learning what they don't already know.

BWS said:

Politeness goes a LOOONG way. . .Getting hung up on terminology isn't moving us any closer twds the end product.

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Agree on the first, but I object on the second. In order for language to remain efficient, it must remain precise. Imprecision adds noise, and leads to errors of misunderstanding.

But I thought truck came with a "bed" to carry cargo and not set up primarily to carry passengers

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- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truck

A truck is a motor vehicle designed to transport cargo.

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Well, the Suburban is a truck designed to carry human cargo, right?

I don't. Life is too short. However, I HAVE corrected people at least 3 times when I have correctly said "clip" and they automatically spouted off that it is a magazine not a clip.

Seriously. An enbloc clip is a clip. When I call it a clip, don't say "it's not a clip it's a magazine.". This has happened twice at the range.

I got the same treatment when I asked my buddy for a couple clips of 7.62x39. I got the same reply from another guy at the range. I said "so an SKS stripper clip is a magazine?". Believe it or not, he said "yes."

My buddy and I were taking the NRA handgun course a few years ago and he misused the term clip when referring to a magazine. I thought the instructor was going to knock him off his chair he got so irate. But it did etch it in my brain not to make that mistake when referring to a magazine.

Mn Fats said:

To which he stood with his eyes glazed over for a few seconds and replied "well I wonder why a magazine is called a magazine?". To which my eyes glazed over and I replied "that I don't know." And back to shooting we went.

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Mn, Are you here all week?!

Just thinking of how boring it would be to have a 'gun' person explaining the difference between a clip and a magazine
to a 'non gun' person,( who could care less in the first place), is making my eyes glaze over.

JT

If I like them, no.