...very interesting stuff so far, docs, and fair enough. Be that it may an old "hot rodder's term", that's beyond my 40 years and I fall into the muscle car era, so "dizzy"is not a term I grew up wrenching to and to see it surfacing here is intriguing. Good stuff :laugh:
I gained it from the megasquirt forum. there are a lot of UK guys who use the term. o No: It's still out there.
I'm dizzy from reading this thread:grin: I'm just happy when someone uses punctuation and capitalization properly these days.
To Gulfgears, You mean that you can get an electrical shock from those Model A "radio suppression" copper strips?
While were griping... How About The Poster That Caps The First Letter In Every Word? That Takes Quite A Bit Of Effort.
The term "dizzy" is beyond my 70 years. Not that I started wrenching the day I was born but my Dad was a gear head and he didn't use the term. I have to agree with a prior post though. If all thats creating a problem for someone is the term "dizzy" they don't have much to worry about.:TU: Bob H.
My wife didn't care for it when I referred to her, and her friends as "guys" once. As in "Where did you guys decide to go tonight?" When I hear women at work refer to a group as guys, I figure it's ok. But in the grand tradition of women never allowing men to understand how they think, or what they mean, I was of course wrong! (I married miss Right, I just didn't know her first name was Always. :laugh: We Write Our Job Tickets Here At Work This Way. I'm not sure why, it's just the norm, and now if I don't do it that way, it looks retarded. er, I mean a bit odd. i hATE wHEN i gET mY cAPS lOCK bACKWARDS!! p "Needs restored" and it's variants irk me.
Being worried and being annoyed by the usage of the term are two completely different things. Currently, it is an annoyance that co-exists in the realm of poor grammar, word usage, punctuation and sentence structure. Taking this one step further, I am concerned about the long term effect that the fundamental skills required to communicate written English are severely lacking with today's youth (tomorrow's adults). Aside from the decline in emphasis of teaching proper written skills in schools, the general practice of excessive text messaging, IM, and hip-hopitty jargon will continues to dilute the essential skills of our youth and young adults. My experience is first hand with the fourteen and eleven year old daughters That is worth the worry to me.
How about all those people that are goint to 'sale' their car! I did't know Buicks had sails, even the boats.
and on the positive side a.. "A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling: For example, in Year 1 that useless letter 'c' would be dropped to be replased either by 'k' or 's', and likewise 'x' would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which 'c' would be retained would be the 'ch' formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform 'w' spelling, so that 'which' and 'one' would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish 'y' replasing it with 'i' and Iear 4 might fiks the 'g/j' anomali wonse and for all. Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez 'c', 'y' and 'x' -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais 'ch', 'sh', and 'th' rispektivli. Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld." -- I don't see the point of spelling a word correctly, and I never did." --Mark Twain
Heck! Logged on when I saw the "dizzy" in the subject line, figuring someone might be talking old time baseball and the mighty pitcher DIZZY DEAN of the bygone years of baseball. Instead I get a thread starting out about monikers of distributors in automobiles, and then it takes an abrupt left turn and goes into complaining about spelling and punctuation here on the board. Geesh! :sleep: Go figure! o No: Whatever! :spank: :ball: Jim
i worked at fisher cast steel in w jefferson ohio before the police dept. any way the guys went on strick. jim
