Brake! IT is a BRAKE you idiots! Not Break! See what you have wrought!?

[Rickenbacher39]

Ha-ha,, you'd be amazed, (or maybe not,) at the number of guys on a truck forum that I visit who constantly talk about working on their vehicles "breaks".
Schools must have given-up teaching the last couple of generations.

Fixed it for you.

 

[bbbass]

Every stinkin one of us mispells on ocasion.

It's gotten worse with the advent of internet and Dumbphone. Predictive text, auto(mis)spellers, all that crap. Voice text on dumbphone is really bad. For me, I can't see well to see what is coming out on the screen, plus my fingers are on autopilot sometimes. "They" comes out "the", "an" comes out "and" and vicey verses.

 

[The Heretic]

What gets to me is that the meaning of the two words couldn't be clearer.

Do people not understand that a "break" generally means something is broken?

That a "brake" is something that is used to slow something down?

 

[WillametteWill]

 

[coop44]

My pet peeve

 

[DivCurlGrad72]

 

[awshoot]

Soon you will be able to write in cursive and people will think it is a secret code.

I already do.

 

[nwslopoke]

When I make posts on my phone and see it later on the computer I catch a lot of mistakes. Many times auto correct pops in a word not even close to my thoughts so even I have to figure out my point (I know I set myself up there).

I think people just get relaxed here. One of the few places you can, and just don't worry about it. You spend all day everywhere else watching your words. I used to love night shift. Mostly prior military. Now I work days in a office.

 

[Boboclown]

Ha-ha,, you'd be amazed, (or maybe not,) at the number of guys on a truck forum that I visit who constantly talk about working on their vehicles "breaks".
Schools must have given-up teaching spelling to the last couple of generations.

I just finished working on the semi's air breaks.

 

[Boboclown]

All this aside, I'm sad we can't get the AK12/AK15/AK308/AK19 due to sanctions.

but we can get the mags for the AK12 or AK19, just not cheap.

 

[TTSX]

This gets me just as bad as people referring to their scope as a "3x9x40" and I'm glad to see I'll not the only one who can't stand broken muzzles

 

[T22]

I'm thinking about saleing one soon. Thanks for the tip.

 

[MannyGlocks]

Yep, 'saleing' gud, wel spelt woid.

If "3x9x40" won't hunt, what will?

 

[PaulB47]

I have to laugh at so-called gun writers calling them "breaks". Clearly, these should be pronounced "BREE-ACKS".

 

[HeavyfootHick]

My wife didn't like the idea of me fishing with a friend on his boat after she overheard him talking about how he added a new "boat WENCH".....

 

[orygun]

This is supposed to be used for measuring brake rotor thickness.
Fortunately it's more accurate than the translation.

 

[Mikej]

This is supposed to be used for measuring brake rotor thickness.
Fortunately it's more accurate than the translation.
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Uh oh..........."MADE IN CHINA"

 

[Lesliet]

That is what got to me. Probably an intern, but why didn't the editor or proofreader catch it?

That is my complaint; it propagates from the internet into the media and then it becomes common usage and nobody knows any better. Pretty soon English is so malformed that nobody can understand it.

I imagine that it IS affected largely by phones and autocorrect, but I think another factor is the way journalism is mostly a field of "McJobs" now. People quit buying newspapers, for the most part, so writers tend to be employed to write articles for online publication, and it's harder to make money from that.

 

[Lesliet]

A groove is either music you like, or " a long, narrow depression or cut, typically to guide motion". A grove is a small stand of trees, generally without undergrowth.

One also might accept the use of grove as the past tense of groove, used as a verb.

 

[washagonian]

Britt Reed knew how to set-up a "brake".