Affect/Effect
Sep 14, 2020 21:50:48 #
Sep 14, 2020 22:42:32 #
jerryc41 wrote:
I don't point out grammatical mistakes that people make here, but affect/effect can cause confusion. I received this in Word-A-Day.
https://www.wordgenius.com/affect-vs-effect/Xr0yWBPAJQAG8w-r?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1146577819
https://www.wordgenius.com/affect-vs-effect/Xr0yWBPAJQAG8w-r?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1146577819
Just as I remember from my Harbrace Handbook... 47 years ago.
Sep 14, 2020 22:54:33 #
SteveR wrote:
All you have to do is read the headlines in the internet news to see that. But, what is it that Rutgers is saying now? Grammar isn't important?
Grammar is basically consistency in usage. The rules taught in college English are meant to provide a common standard basis for understanding.
Yet even Ebonic English, spoken by some African Americans, has very clear rules of usage. Once you understand those rules, you understand the same richness of expression that you get with any other English dialect. Yet the uninitiated scratch their heads and mock what they won’t or don’t make an effort to understand.
Language snobbery is understandable to me, but also highly offensive. The most important thing is to communicate well enough to understand each other. if we do that, we have a basis for fair trade.
Sep 15, 2020 02:52:56 #
burkphoto wrote:
Well said. In engineering I always pushed for this........The most important thing is to communicate well enough to understand each other. if we do that, we have a basis for fair trade.
Do not Speak or Write to be Understood; Speak or Write so that You Cannot be Misunderstood. --Wm. H. Taft
Sep 15, 2020 08:49:14 #
petrochemist
Loc: UK
1Feathercrest wrote:
America has become a nation of grammatical morons!
I'm afraid it's not just America, the same symptoms seem to be apparent worldwide.
Sep 15, 2020 09:38:44 #
1Feathercrest wrote:
America has become a nation of grammatical morons!
Scratch the word "grammatical."
Sep 15, 2020 14:46:06 #
BBurns wrote:
Well said. In engineering I always pushed for this.
Do not Speak or Write to be Understood; Speak or Write so that You Cannot be Misunderstood. --Wm. H. Taft
Do not Speak or Write to be Understood; Speak or Write so that You Cannot be Misunderstood. --Wm. H. Taft
Yep. Another good one is that communication is a common thought, held in union. As such, it is 100% the responsibility of BOTH sender and receiver, each of whom has to deal with the *baggage* in between (noise, bias, misinformation, discontinuity, limitations of media used, etc.). It's seldom easy. None of us thinks the same way, nor has the same experiences, education, etc., and that colors every conversation.
Sep 15, 2020 14:55:55 #
burkphoto wrote:
So true. I worked in Aerospace for many years,. I have very fond memories of my time at TRW. Yep. Another good one is that communication is a common thought, held in union. ....
Some of the world's best engineering was done by 4 or 5 guys standing out in the hall, leaning against the wall, with a cup of coffee tossing ideas around.
Sep 15, 2020 15:54:53 #
BBurns wrote:
So true. I worked in Aerospace for many years,. I have very fond memories of my time at TRW.
Some of the world's best engineering was done by 4 or 5 guys standing out in the hall, leaning against the wall, with a cup of coffee tossing ideas around.
Some of the world's best engineering was done by 4 or 5 guys standing out in the hall, leaning against the wall, with a cup of coffee tossing ideas around.
Reminds me of nights in college, sitting around in some dorm room with 3-5 people discussing the nature of the universe. Like, wow, man... (puts a copy of Zappa's Lumpy Gravy LP on the stereo...). Also reminds me of delphi technique meetings I held in the 1980s as a project manager in a photo lab... The creativity flows when you park egos and titles at the door and just dream out loud and ask the other dreamers some questions.
Sep 15, 2020 16:10:44 #
burkphoto wrote:
So true. ...... The creativity flows when you park egos and titles at the door and just dream out loud ....
My guys were the ones that did Project Gemini, put Apollo on the Moon and brought Apollo 13 home.
We did it with a 'bent nail and a rock' because we had to. Very different time then.
Sep 15, 2020 18:24:20 #
BBurns wrote:
So true.
My guys were the ones that did Project Gemini, put Apollo on the Moon and brought Apollo 13 home.
We did it with a 'bent nail and a rock' because we had to. Very different time then.
My guys were the ones that did Project Gemini, put Apollo on the Moon and brought Apollo 13 home.
We did it with a 'bent nail and a rock' because we had to. Very different time then.
It’s amazing how much humans can do — and did — with so little. Yet Apple released a new iPad Air today with 11.8 BILLION transistors in it.
Sep 15, 2020 18:47:04 #
burkphoto wrote:
Today’s current iPhone is 100,000 times more powerful than the computer in the Command module of Apollo 11. It is on one chip running on a battery the size of 4 saltine crackers. It’s amazing how much humans can do — and did — with so little. Yet Apple released a new iPad Air today with 11.8 BILLION transistors in it.
Yes. For use old guys who still dream about Dick Tracey’s wrist watch radio, it’s magic.
My stepson is at SpaceX carrying on the tradition.
When they set those 2 main stages back down at the Cape I knew there was no way I could ever explain the level of importance and what a major milestone in history that was.
On another positive note, Apple is slowly accepting the USB-C as the new standard.
Sep 15, 2020 20:22:58 #
BBurns wrote:
Today’s current iPhone is 100,000 times more power... (show quote)
They have been using Thunderbolt 3 for several years. It uses the same connector as USB-C and fully supports both standards, simultaneously. (It also supports about ten other formats via docks and adapters). Their Apple Silicon Macs are expected to support Thunderbolt 4 and USB-C.
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