Words are important

[GBA]

I think that I am just an old, cranky, geezer. But that said, it bothers me when people on forums don't use words properly. We have posts with "muzzle break." That little tube on the end of the barrel is there not to break the muzzle, but to brake the muzzle. Just like the brakes on your truck. Receivers are not healed, but they have heels. That's the back part. So you can have heel stamps, but I don't know if you can heal anything by stamping on it, so no heal stamps.

Effect is generally (but not always) a noun. Affect is generally (but not always) a verb.

They're means; they are. There means; a place. Their; means it belongs to them.

Please try a little. It would help me cut down on my drinking.

OK, rant is over, asbestos suit is on, fire away.

[kidsgun]

Some things just need to be said.

[tmark]

I know what you mean. I'm a landlubber who moved to the ocean and here people refer to the tides as mean tide, rip tide, and high tide.

To this day I have never seen the tide be mean to anyone. I have never seen the tide rip anyone to pieces. But I have seen the tide high after pot smokers threw their roaches into the ocean.

I stay up late at nights thinking about these things, too!

[Griff Murphey]

Also.... You pick a site for a range but a rifle has a sight.

Must go, I feel a need to Handel my Grand.

[ebeeby]

"Please try a little. It would help me cut down on my drinking."

Why would you want to do that?

Thanks for the housekeeping notes. Their, um there, I mean, they're helpful.

[Richard Turner/Turner Saddlery]

I know what you mean. I'm a landlubber who moved to the ocean and here people refer to the tides as mean tide, rip tide, and high tide.

To this day I have never seen the tide be mean to anyone. I have never seen the tide rip anyone to pieces.

You must have never watched Alabama Football. They're mean and they shred most teams, and this coming from an Auburn Fan. Their battle cry is "Roll Tide".

[Richard Turner/Turner Saddlery]

Don't know why, but I feel like I have something crawling up the back of my neck when I read or hear some refer to a Winchester as a Whinny and a Remington as a Remmy. It never seems to bother me when a Chevrolet is referred to as a Chevy.

[nf1e]

Wha da ya meen? Wheez bin youzin de bes wurds der wuz. Ifin youz dunt getem den daz ur pablum.

[Allen]

Some things just need to be said.

The one that bothers me is when people type "your" instead of "you're".

[dave]

We just were not all good in English. One reason why foreigner's find it so difficult is the amount of words pronounced the same but spelled differently to change meaning! As for the whinny and remmey, they just think they are being cute (like a 6 yr. old).