ClayD wrote to Powderburner:
Usually, typos and misspellings are left alone in forums (I sure make my share of typos) . But there are so many in that last sentence and a half, and the thread is supposed to be about technical matters which require a greater level of accuracy, where bad spelling and bad grammar are like fingernails scraping across a chalkboard.
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....who's the one that needs learnded....
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Learnded? What is learnded? That whole part of the sentence does not make any sense.
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.....theres .....
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There is, or theres, not theres. You need to work on your use of contractions as this error is common throughout your posts.
https://www.enchantedlearning.com/grammar/contractions/
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....an engineering principal, ...
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Engineering PRINCIPLE, not principal.
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....of "i am an engineer, ...
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The word I (meaning the person who is speaking/writing) is always capitalized, not used as lower-case.
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if your not an engineer....
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Youre, not your. As in you are, used as the contraction youre. The word your is used as a possessive, which does not apply in this case.
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... you cant say...
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The word is cant, not cant. As in can not, or cannot, used as the contraction cant. There is no such thing as can not or cannot used as a contraction spelled as cant.
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... i am wrong .....
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Again, the word I (meaning the person who is speaking/writing) is always capitalized, not used as lower-case.
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...cause ...
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BECAUSE, not cause.
Why? Because...
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...you cant prove it."
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Again, the word is cant, not cant. As in can not, or cannot, used as the contraction cant. There is no such thing as can not or cannot used as a contraction spelled as cant.
As I said at the start, normally spelling and typos are left alone in forums. But it is so hard to ignore in this case since your technical issues and terms used are about as inaccurate or mis-applied as the misspellings and improper use of words or grammar. Examples such as base drag, wingtip vortices, and total confusion over what the XB-70s aerodynamics were about.
Take this as a learnded oppertoonidty.
BTW - Powderburner's reference to a pig, perhaps he meant the one about not trying to teach a pig to sing? The most appropriate pig reference to this thread is the one in the first photo below. I also repost the Inigo Montoya quote.
- George Gassaway