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So... why does everyone and their mother spell 'Squier' wrong?

#101
hrodbert696 said:
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The fact is that the notion of strictly "correct" grammar and spelling independent of actual spoken usage is relatively recent ...
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This is a great thing to keep in mind.

Most of us aren't aware languages are fluid things, which evolve, mutate (and decay) constantly. So the rules that try to encapsulate them can never keep up.

At any given time there are hotbed areas of change: new terms, simplified spellings, colorful sayings-of-the-moment that slowly turn into clichés and then standard idioms. Etc., etc.

People who don't give their English much thought and who ad-lib or abbreviate spelling/grammar are kind of like the radiation that makes our human genome mutate over time. They cause a lot of "noise" information -- most of which gets rejected, and disappears.

But they also innovate and simplify. If their innovations happen to catch on, the language ends up changing.
And hey: it's gonna change, whether we approve or not!

Most of the time I kind of enjoy crafting English so that it more or less conforms to recent ideas of "standard" and "correct".

But I also like the chaos and "creative" usage/spelling that's constantly gushing forth on the web. Texting abbreviation, for instance, is often really smart!
 
#103
By the way: I feel great personal resistance to "nucular". It really jars.

But I would not be surprised in the least if it keeps spreading, and ends up being a perfectly accepted variant in 50 years -- and possibly so widely used in 100 years that "nuclear" actually dies away!

I don't mind, I'll be dead then. :^D lol
 
#106
BigOldHarry said:
does it really matter?
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#107
JTE said:
To (not "too" nor "two) the topic of the original post. As has been said, the name FMIC puts on their (not "there" nor "they're") inexpensive import line is "Squier" because it's (not "its") a name they own. Fender bought the V. C. Squier string company right around the time CBS bought the company and has owned the rights to that name for musical equipment since.

Why people don't spell it correctly- a whole other thing, mostly I believe due (not "do) to laziness and a generally uncaring attitude about communicating accurately. But I believe most of our political problems is because people don't WANT accurate communication, they merely want the 20 second soundbite so subtlety and nuance are discarded.

And the lunkheads who say "well, you understood what I meant" would do well to remember that if they're asking for help, making it more work to get to the question isn't going to help their (not "they're" nor "there") cause in the least.

I'm with Kwesi here (not "hear"). Note my signature...

And don't ever type "walla" or "viola" if you mean "voila"...
John
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+1
 
#108
PazzoBasso said:
Canadian English has many more words that end in "RE" - eg. metre, litre - so it rolls off the keyboard more easily?

But don't get me started on Percision Basses or Trust Rods...
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I thought everything ended in aye... :D jk

HAHA! YES! I have seen "Trust rods" :eyebrow:on TB. LOL
Is that like a round tuit ???:smug: I have an extra case of those if anyone needs one....
 
#109
Kwesi said:
I lol'd :D.

It's just that you see them all over the place on TB and I think that their logo is at least distinctive enough for folk to get those last two letters right :p. I'm not bashing on anyone, I just find it a little weird that it's misspelled almost as often as it's spelled properly if not, more so.
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LOL. I had one and was looking at the head stock when writing the for sale add and still messed it up:D I blame O.F.S. Old Farts Syndrome:)
 
#118
A particularly enjoyable thread. Especially all the postings that pushed forward the authors' pet peeves regarding certain aspects of the English language whilst ignoring others within the same post, such as number agreement. Here's another mixup that that gets much (ab)use in the forums:

"your" and "you're".

Aye use you alley cheque may righting bee fore eye poe stet butt sum thymes air [DEL]ores[/DEL] oars crepe inn.



Tracebassplayer said:
Well, If you wanna get on the "correct everyone's grammar" wagon... you're statement should have read "should be" once not twice and had quotes like this...
"By the way, since we are discussing grammar, the highlighted word should have been "too" not "to". :D
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Well, actually, all those quote marks you used got confusing. So, if you're going to use quotes within a quote, such as you did, you should use single quotes within your quote, like this:
"By the way, since we are discussing grammar, the highlighted word should have been 'too' not 'to'."

Shall we discuss whether the quote marks should be placed within the punctuation or without? Whose English conventions shall we adhere to? Britain's, Canada's, Australia's, New Zealand's or... ? (Should the ellipses have had a space before them, no space before or after, or a space before and after?) What dictionary shall we all draw from? My preference is Oxford, Collins or anything other than Websters...

Tampabass said:
What annoys me most about grammar/spelling here: the folks who start threads on well-known bassists, but won't take an extra 30 seconds to spell the names correctly.
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You mean like Neil Hennings-Ousted Peterson?

(Sorry, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen)
 

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