Your 12 ? I’am impressed with your ambition and the composition of your post.
But, I believe that you will find that most turners enjoy making their own handles. My preference is an especially long handle that can rest on my hip at about belt level when I want more stability.
Work Safe, Count to 10 when your done for the day !!
Bruce S.
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Wha' happen?
?? I don't think I scared him. Or at least didn't try to.Work Safe, Count to 10 when your done for the day !!
Bruce S.
Perhaps the minimum age for participation is >12?forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
I was really impressed with his post! Very well written and composed. College level work.Work Safe, Count to 10 when your done for the day !!
Bruce S.
Well, that's comforting. I sometimes worry about future generation's abilities to write, compose, spell, given the shorthand of texting and chatrooms and such. LOL!
One of my pet peeves lately is the absence of subject/verb agreement in the broadcasting world, and mind you I listen solely to NPR and local public radio, which I assume, perhaps mistakenly, are staffed with the most educated broadcast staff. More LOL! Same syndrome exists on the national news broadcasts.forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
Proper grammar on Internet forums may be asking a lot, but I'd agree - one would think that it would come naturally to NPR folks.
I find myself wondering if the rules of grammar have changed since I left school (ohhhhh so many years ago). My schooling included intensive work diagramming sentences in grade school, maybe junior high (not sure). So I would state "A handful of kibbles is sufficient for my dog's lunch." They are more likely to say "A handful of kibbles are sufficient...."forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
I am quite sure the use of the word "they" has changed at least one time since you were born. When I was a student I used a singular "they" and was told by a professor much younger than myself that using a singular "they" was not proper English. I showed her how the word had been used that way many years ago and now it is being used again. She was surprised.Some do not like "he" used in a sentence to denote a mixed group of people but instead insist on he/she. By using a singular "they" that avoided the issue among those who are offended by the use of the word "he". Oh, the ambiguities of English and those who continue to insist on it!
I've always considered the singular they, and its cousin, the singular we, as a handy means of estimating the speaker's level of education. Common usage remains rather common. ;-)
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"I've always considered the singular they, and its cousin, the singular we, as a handy means of estimating the speaker's level of education. Common usage remains rather common. ;-)"
Guess you won't be in the handshake line at Buckingham palace anytime soon!
Jim
The "royal we" isn't singular, though, hence the royal use of plural verbs. ;-)The singular forms to which I refer result in "they is" and "we is". ;-)
Ah, we see. Not that long ago it was OK for uppercrust Brits to say "you is" in the singular (technically correct) and in conversation "ain't" in sing. and plur. Of course it never occurs to UCBs that they could possibly be wrong about anything. But traditionally Brits have judged your social class by your accent, and North Americans by use of grammar. ;^)
Jim
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