[USER=60]@Peter Ehlert[/USER]
the ladies in most of the local offices were typists first and are beginning to learn what magic keyboards are capable of..............:imp:
A Harris, post: 404257, member: 81 wrote: Years ago when I learned AppleWriter and WordPerfect would allow to create a custom keyboard I took all those keystrokes that were useless to surveyors and made them create special characters that we use.
That worked like a charm until a few special clients wanted to be able to cut and paste into their documents and those custom keystrokes did not transfer to another computer unless it was setup with the same keyboard magic.
Now I use their insert function and as long as everyone is WordPerfect all is good, when they try to convert into something else, the magic gets lost again.
Good grief! I still use Word Perfect too! Imagine, actually owning software. It is really very fast and customizable, and if anything is better at macros, I've never seen it.
Some of my lawyer buddies still use it too.
Winners here too (on campus).
A casual glance at a hotel menu in the capital city.
Peter Ehlert, post: 402149, member: 60 wrote: Emigrate/Immigrate Emigrate means to move away from a city or country to live somewhere else: Chester??s grandfather emigrated from Canada sixty years ago. Immigrate means to move into a country from somewhere else: Posey??s sister immigrated to Ireland in 2004.
I believe you got your two examples backwards. You emigrate to and immigrate from.
That's about as far as I got through the post.
paden cash, post: 401644, member: 20 wrote: Be proud of your drawl. We are the only ones that speak true English.
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If you ever go to Charleston, South Carolina there is a small region there that has a heavy British accent. The speech inflection and dialect is like a time warp to the original early settlers.
vern, post: 447498, member: 3436 wrote: I believe you got your two examples backwards. You emigrate to and immigrate from.
That's about as far as I got through the post.
very true, it is awkward.
Both the US and Mexico have departments called Immigration (Inmigraci??n) that process incoming people... so from the location perspective I will go with the definitions I quoted.
Peter Ehlert, post: 447536, member: 60 wrote: very true, it is awkward.
Both the US and Mexico have departments called Immigration (Inmigraci??n) that process incoming people... so from the location perspective I will go with the definitions I quoted.
how did this thread get this far without the original internet example?:
Apparently good spelling, grammar, and punctuation are now considered elitist. They exclude people from certain socioeconomic backgrounds and are types of virtue signaling that contribute to further inequality. Worst of all, they reinforce the current hierarchy. :unamused:
The heresy that drives me the most crazy is the abandonment of the very logical system we have for plurals and possessives, especially for words ending in s. I now see writers for nationwide magazines abandoning all sense and apparently just saying f*** it whenever they have a word ending in s that needs to become possessive. These days, the kids just slap an apostrophe at the end and move on. Strunk and White cry out from the earth...:mad:
FrozenNorth, post: 447565, member: 10219 wrote: Apparently good spelling, grammar, and punctuation are now considered elitist. They exclude people from certain socioeconomic backgrounds and are types of virtue signaling that contribute to further inequality. Worst of all, they reinforce the current hierarchy. :unamused:
The heresy that drives me the most crazy is the abandonment of the very logical system we have for plurals and possessives, especially for words ending in s. I now see writers for nationwide magazines abandoning all sense and apparently just saying f*** it whenever they have a word ending in s that needs to become possessive. These days, the kids just slap an apostrophe at the end and move on. Strunk and White cry out from the earth...:mad:
their they're, calm down, FN. change's take time.
flyin solo, post: 447567, member: 8089 wrote: their they're, calm down, FN. change's take time.
My first laugh of the day. Thanks man. 🙂
FrozenNorth, post: 447569, member: 10219 wrote: My first laugh of the day. Thanks man. 🙂
irony being that surveying has so thoroughly turned around my understanding of commas, semicolons, and various other punctuation that i should be using the chicago manual of style for a pillow.
More from local hotel (2 different ones) menus (didn't get at photo):
Chicken a la Kev.
Chicken Gordon Blew.
Richard Imrie, post: 447575, member: 11256 wrote: ...Chicken Gordon Blew...
I'm thinkin' I'd definitely stay away from that....:drool:
Jim in AZ, post: 447588, member: 249 wrote: Never heard of Hope, AZ. We drove past Hope, New Mexico on vacation once - I think SWIMBO blinked and missed it...
Hope, NM is a teeming metropolis compared to Hope, AZ. My son in Phoenix visits Hope, AZ occasionally with his rock-crawling 4WD buddies. According to him, Hope AZ is just a "cell tower and a trailer park"...
I used to drive thru Hope, Az. on my way to Prescott, for work. Actually it is a nice drive, many old pueblas and ruins, beautiful landscape.
After about a year and a half the biweekly commute got old, minimal time at home, so I quit going back.
Paden "cell tower and a trailer park" fits perfect! I never stopped, other than to get photos of the sign. Retirement village I would assume
On another note, driving along I30 from Texarkana to Little Rock, Arkansas, you will see Exist Signs for Hope, Arkansas and Prescott, Arkansas as they are just south of the Interstate.
