"Expert" for Hire!

Posted by: Mike Hanson on 07 August 2001

Rico was unhappy that I reported the CDS1's superiority over the CDX without actually hearing the CDS1. (i.e. My "knowledge" was hearsay.) In light of this, I thought I should come clean and let you know which equipment I have owned and auditioned, so that no one feels misled by any future postings.

Owned:


Auditioned:

Any auditioned items marked with an asterisk have been experienced at least 3 times (with different units, and/or the same units in different setups). This list is not complete, as there are many other items that I've owned and auditioned; however, I believe these are the most pertinent within the context of this forum. For the list of my current systems, please see my profile.

From this point onwards, any comments that I make regarding the above equipment should be viewed as "expert opinion". I hope that Rico's happy with my full disclosure.

-=> Mike Hanson <=-

[This message was edited by Mike Hanson on TUESDAY 07 August 2001 at 17:05.]

Posted on: 07 August 2001 by Mike Hanson
I thought I should properly punctuate your recent query, so that you might learn by example:

  • So, may I ask, is the use of the word "AND" followed by the word "AND" a peculiar Canadian colloquialism that the rest of the English speaking world knoweth nothing of?

Beginning your sentence with "So" is awkward, and most experts would frown upon it. I'm willing to accept it, though, in light of the conversational posture of your message.

Some might argue that the clause, "may I ask," should be segregated by parentheses, rather than commas. However, this is mostly up to personal preference and style.

I hope this helps you in your quest for better grammar in your daily scribbling.

-=> Mike Hanson <=-

[This message was edited by Mike Hanson on TUESDAY 07 August 2001 at 19:20.]

Posted on: 07 August 2001 by P
Mike - STFUp!

Goodnight

>>>=========>Pete<==========<<<

Like my arrows?

Posted on: 07 August 2001 by Joe Petrik
Mike,

quote:
Beginning your sentence with "So" is awkward, and most experts would frown upon it.

Which experts are those? The same ones that mindlessly repeated the rule, now thoroughly debunked, about not splitting infinitives?

Just for the official, "expert" record, sometimes, at the beginning of a sentence, "so" acts as a summing-up device or as a transition.

So there!

Joe

Posted on: 07 August 2001 by Mike Hanson
P said
quote:
Like my arrows?

Yes, they're very impressive. Now I'm envious.

Joe said

quote:
Which experts are those? The same ones that mindlessly repeated the rule, now thoroughly debunked, about not splitting infinitives?

Just for the official, "expert" record, sometimes, at the beginning of a sentence, "so" acts as a summing-up device or as a transition.

I realize that these "rules" are always changing. I think we split infinitives now because of Kirk's intent "to boldly go".

I concur with your official guideline for using "So" at the start of the sentence. In this context, "so" is a synonym for "therefore". However, that's not how P used it.

-=> Mike Hanson <=-

Posted on: 07 August 2001 by Mike Hanson
I was amused by Rico's indignation, and I thought I would play with it a bit. It was fun for a while, but I have to get to work now.

Auf Wiederschreiben!

-=> Mike Hanson <=-

Posted on: 07 August 2001 by Mick P
Vuk

You take good photo's of women in fields, so stick with it. Bums coming out of black liquid is pretentious and boring. You know I am right.

Also everyone who writes in on the forum, myself included, uses bloody awful English. That is the effect of the internet. I predict in as little as 50 yrs from now, the world will have one language.......a corrupted English base, marred by patoi of the foreigners and why not. Whats the sense in the world having fifty languages.

Regards

Mick .....I was educated in the use of classic English but now regard it as redundant.

Posted on: 07 August 2001 by Joe Petrik
Mike,

quote:
I think we split infinitives now because of Kirk's intent "to boldly go".

Although it gives me great joy when life imitates kitschy sci-fi, Kirk can't take credit for this.

Writers have been splitting infinitives since the 1300s, and no one seemed to give a damn until the mid-nineteenth century when grammar books -- notably Henry Alford's Plea for the Queen's English -- started calling it a crime. Some linguists trace the taboo to the Victorians' slavish fondness for Latin, a language in which you can't split an infinitive. This rule was popular for half a century until leading grammarians debunked it.

So, despite popular perception, it wasn't Kirk.

quote:
In this context, "so" is a synonym for "therefore".

Ah, but "therefore" is a transition, so "so" was used correctly. So there.

Joe


Posted on: 07 August 2001 by Cheese
quote:
Überman
Mike, I'm glad you've forgotten the second "n" wink It would have reminded me of brown years.

Don't worry, it was just a footnote - BTW I agree with you that the term "arse" is somewhat primitive, especially when used in this forum.

I will now behave like a teacher or psychologist or whatever, and you will probably hate me. Some forum members seem to consider you're the village fool - but IMO your constant urge to justify yourself makes you a perfet mock.

big grin

Cheese - may all beings be happy smile

Posted on: 07 August 2001 by Mick P
Vuk

Yes I like naked women in fields but let us leave it at that or the PC mob will come in.

Also I still think Mike is an excellent role model for some others on here. he knows what he wants and he gets it and then wants more. That is the attitude that took men from the caves to where they are now.

Why mock success.....the politics of envy methinks.

Regards

Mick

Posted on: 07 August 2001 by Mike Hanson
quote:
I will now behave like a teacher or psychologist or whatever, and you will probably hate me. Some forum members seem to consider you're the village fool - but IMO your constant urge to justify yourself makes you a perfet mock.

No worries here. It's actually entertaining to play the fool occasionally. There aren't many other members who feel comfortable doing it (Mick's a comrade in arms), and I find it can get boring without a good target lurking around. I'm self-assured enough to take all of their jibes as they're intended: good fun. This is just a silly place to blow off some steam. It's fun to joke around with the boys, even if a few of the barbs are at my expense.

The occasional individual will get more than a little annoyed at me, and that always makes me chuckle. I'm also amused when someone else gets poked at, and then gets all huffy (the old adage that you can dish it out, but you can't take it).

I'm just here to have fun, and there's no point for me to respond in any other way.

-=> Mike Hanson <=-

P.S. Thanks for the correction on "mann". Mein Deutsch ist nicht so gut (and getting worse by the moment). wink

Posted on: 08 August 2001 by Alex S.
Your stars seem to be falling one by one from the heavens; but those that remain shine brightly.

Vuk - less of other people's bums, and red taps, and more fields please.

Posted on: 08 August 2001 by Rico
quote:
and I thought I would play with it a bit.

Mike

you said it. big grin I'm pleased it's out in the open now.

Rico - let them eat Kans... the girlie wusses.

Posted on: 02 September 2001 by Steve Toy
Now what silly PR&T wants to go and call himself "[none]?" roll eyes
Then he goes and writes in a new tense which may be called the multiple anterior of the past perfect, AKA, a bunch of arse! big grin big grin big grin

It's always a nice day for it, have a good one wink
Steve

Posted on: 02 September 2001 by Steve Toy
....and his first-ever posting has bugger-all to do with hi-fi, music or Naim. Now he really is a PR&T!
So does [None] equal [no-Naim]? big grin wink

It's always a nice day for it, have a good one wink
Steve
PS: I notice that [no-Naim] has edited his posting in sufficient time that the editing is not acknowledged at the bottom of the posting...
He has some Naim. Jolly good cool

[This message was edited by Steven Toy on MONDAY 03 September 2001 at 06:01.]

Posted on: 03 September 2001 by Martin Payne
Sproggle,

I just did a search on Google for rules on using apostrophes.

The first page I found says:-

quote:
Apostrophes are sometimes used to make acronyms or other abbreviations plural...

SeeGrammar reference, although the author does actually frown on this usage himself.

Martin

Posted on: 03 September 2001 by Steve Toy
Jeremy,
I agree with you about the rogue apostrophe's, because they look uncool.
quote:
Grammar rules are prescriptive and not descriptive.

...or was it the other way round? wink
What do you make of how that sentence began?
Elipsis is cool, hey? cool
The prescriptive/descriptive thing: does it mean that if more people have such shoddy style, then their (mis)use of our language will officially become accepted? eek

It's always a nice day for it, have a good one wink
Steve

Posted on: 03 September 2001 by Martin Payne
quote:
Originally posted by Steven Toy:
The prescriptive/descriptive thing: does it mean that if more people have such shoddy style, then their (mis)use of our language will officially become accepted? eek


Yes. Language is continually evolving.

Look at the difference between Elizabethan English & our own (any variant).

With modern communications this is happening even faster now.

cheers, Martin