Oh, the humanity... Blasphemy!
"minty"
"rare"
"hard to find"
"I do not know anything about photography but it works well. As is. No returns."
Abbreviations in general drive me nuts, ...
Then you need an LOAAA. If you had one, you would know what that means!
LOAAA ==> List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
Steve
Every time I hear an abbreviation or acronym at work during meetings, i stop the speaker and ask them to define the term.
Some abbreviations make life easier.
My Lords, I would like to present to the Chamber the following Exhibit: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...raditional-camera-film-makes-a-come-back.html
Let us remind the whole world the following things:
* It's 120, not 120mm
* It's not "rare"
'Shooting on a manual camera means you can't make a mistake' - What's this all about then?
I think it means that you have to get it right, because if you make a mistake you won't know until later.
I dislike abbreviations in general, I suppose they are just a "smart" way not to check orthography. People write "silo" because they have no idea where they would put the "h" in silhouette, "tog" is a way to resolve the dilemma photographer or fotografer, photografer, fotographer.
The thing that disturbs me more is all the "it's" instead of "its", "he's" instead of "his" (the list could go on) because that shows a basic ignorance of basic grammar rules of the language. You find it now in technical documentation as well. That's sad to say the least*.
Also "your" instead of "you are", "their" instead of "they are", "whose" instead of "who's" or "who's" instead of "whose" can be mentioned. One has to read the sentences twice to figure where the catch is
And another thing is all the commas, dots, semicolons which are not followed by a space. When one writes a sentence without leaving a space after the comma,the text is much more difficult to read fast,and reading a forum becomes a pain,so much so that sometimes I immediately skip the text. Spaces are free, use them generously
* It's not difficult to understand.
It's = a contraction of "it is".
Its = of it, related to it.
If you can substitute it's with "it is" then you write it "it's".
If you cannot substitute it's with "it is" then it's "its".
One cannot say "I loved the camera but not it is price". You say "I loved the camera but not its price".
And by the same token "her's" (that doesn't exists at all) is different from "hers", "his" is different from "he's".
The girl brought her book. I brought my book, she brought hers.
Never: the girl brought her's book. Her's makes no sense and does not exists in English. Your's does not exists in English as well. If it's yours, it's yours without apostrophe.
He's just arrived with his car. She's just arrived with her car. They're just arrived with their car. It's their car, not yours. You're not the owner of this car, because it's theirs.
Spend half an hour with your grammar, it's your friend
(I'm not targeting anybody in particular, just being my usual pedantic)
PS Being a foreigner I have a grammatical license to kill, so now don't shoot at me in retaliation
I think so. Digitals are used by most folks in auto, followed by chimping.I see, so they mean a film camera when they say manual camera?
Oh and to help you out this one should read:
"He's just arrived with his car. She's just arrived with her car. They're just arriving with their car. (Or they've just arrived with their car.) It's their car, not yours. You're not the owner of this car, because it's theirs."
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