"Gernade" and other terminology pet peeves

[cosine]

Someone (Voltaire?) once said that the only problem with the Holy Roman Empire was that it wasn’t holy, Roman, or an empire.

~G. Fink

Sounds like a case of sour grapes to me.

Okay, enough of the thread hijack.

I don't really have any pet peeves regarding English, grammar, or inaccurate gun references or terminology. As long as I can understand what the poster is trying to say I'm pretty tolerant of other shortcomings in the post.
However, I do wish to praise this thread. It's been good for a bit of entertainment on an otherwise boring Saturday night.

 

[bowfin]

Missouri Mule,

My formal education doesn't go beyond a half dozen or so classes at the Community College.

I have been a blue collar worker in heavy manufacturing for most of my life. I even worked in a "tranny" shop for a year or so. It was not uncommon to see otherwise brilliant people grinding to a complete halt because shifts or departments being unable to communicate to each other because someone couldn't spell, write legibly, or use correct grammar well enough. Half the toolroom on double time huddled together trying to decipher a note found on a machine part telling us what it was for and what to do with it.

Right now I do software, electronics and computers. C programming language will spit out 2,100 errors in a proof for a single missed comma or semi-colon. That might be part of my devotion (or obsession) to details and accuracy.