Newbie wrote:
Language is to get your point across. As long as people understand it... does it matter how you spell it
kool, L*O*L, WOW, oops --> I dont' think you can find them in the dictionary, but everyone knows what they mean
To be, or well like not to be: that's the thing dude:
Whether it's cooler in the mind to suffer
All the shit life throws at you
Or to stand your ground against all this crap
And by opposing ride on.
Doesn't have quite the same ring about it
Also, considering we worry about the quality of out of focus bokeh, it would be a shame not to express our ideas as clearly as possible. Might just as well say that if a subject is out of focus you still knew what the photographer was trying to show.
paulhodson wrote:
Also, considering we worry about the quality of out of focus bokeh, it would be a shame not to express our ideas as clearly as possible. Might just as well say that if a subject is out of focus you still knew what the photographer was trying to show.
A valid and very interesting analogy, but you know... not everyone is visually literate, either. This isn't a disparagement against their photos, but some people aren't trying to make art or communicate anything, they just like "takin' pitchers." Nothing wrong with that, just the way it is--as frustrating as it can be, I can't make anyone "see" the importance of grammar or visual literacy.
kansashoops wrote:
I'm sure that "lense" is simply a misspelling that has become common enough that the dictionary people now accept it as an alternative spelling. That is how languages evolve over time. People invent new words (or import them from other languages), stop using old ones, and change the spelling/meaning/pronunciation of existing ones. This phenomenon has nothing to do with America or Americans. Read some representative literary works from British authors in the early 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries and you'll see what I mean.
It is also like tyre, kerb and gaol for tire, curb and jail.
paulhodson wrote:
No - try saying "just look at the bokeh on that!" to the average wife (or husband - don't want to be sexist) !!!
And it goes so much further than that--Ask your average person (maybe even many people here) who Alfred Stieglitz, Lee Friedlander, Minor White or Joel Meyerowitz are.
Lens
Site (not sight for webSite)
Your - like in yours
You're - you are
their - not yours but someone elses
there - ovah there!! (ok, it's really over there)
glasse - glass means ice cream in Swedish (Scandinavian language)
DC.Paul wrote:
And it goes so much further than that--Ask your average person (maybe even many people here) who Alfred Stieglitz, Lee Friedlander, Minor White or Joel Meyerowitz are.
