Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2023 19:59:48 -0700
Reply-To: David McNeely <davmcneely40@GMAIL.COM>
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From: David McNeely <davmcneely40@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: break vs. brake
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I thought I had sent my original comment to Eric privately, and not to the
list. I apologize to the list. And thank you, Rat.
BTW, my wife had an uncle who actually went by the name "Rat", with no
qualifiers at all. As a child, she (and she alone, her siblings and
cousins called him "Uncle Rat") she was put off by the associations, and
called him "Uncle Cat." Many in her father's family had a range of unusual
nicknames. My father-in-law was called "Preacher," ostensibly because as a
child he played with the local minister's daughter. There was a "Goosy," a
"Tiny, and a "Gin" (the last because she picked cotton so rapidly). These
nicknames stayed with them until they died, and many people never heard
their actual names.
On Sun, Sep 17, 2023 at 2:22 PM OlRivrRat <OlRivrRat@comcast.net> wrote:
> A POI when it comes to Brakes on anything that can move is that it
> may very
>
> well be misspelled since they are a device or devices that cause the
> slowing down
>
> or interruption of motion > Break = an interruption of continuity <
> https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=566125202&q=continuity&si=ALGXSlbxwhdHKc0fpoiOcM6OGd452Vrb_vHt3ULEN7mEqFcSpXpA93kPTVixBAEOqfcT_OfqyRZssrvbyyBzUgNT5ZkgbxLD3w%3D%3D&expnd=1>
> or uniformity <
> https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=566125202&q=uniformity&si=ALGXSlbxwhdHKc0fpoiOcM6OGd45SSGuHw_CJu1hzAwGH739v0wte6zKzc4GvajmCuFEDh-3_QP3bNWHVXdpow-jXJ0vUgGhaA%3D%3D&expnd=1>.
> So
>
> in Your car when You attempt to slow down by applying the Brakes You are
> Breaking
>
> the motion of Your car & therefore maybe could say You are applying Breaks
> ~
>
>
>
> > On 17 Sep , 2023, at 12:41 PM, Eric Caron <ericcaron96@COMCAST.NET>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi David,
> >
> > Just for you, I will spell Break as Brake for now on. That won’t
> Brake my heart. I think the bigger issue is the silliness of our English
> language spelling, There, I mean Their, I mean They’re so many examples.
> I’m never going to get them all correct.
> >
> > I learn from sound not from seeing words. Example. I’m now an
> intermediate French language speaker. But, I almost gave up learning as I
> just about failed my High school classes due, I mean do, I mean, Due, to
> not being able to spell. Later, I used audio only French lessons with
> success.
> >
> > I don’t see the warning colors on word processors. So, you are going to
> see lots of errors in my writing.
> >
> > Sew, rather then, than, worry about your sensibilities, I’m going to
> just keep writing as I do and put my energies into content rather then
> spelling.
> >
> > I also tend to use a when I should use an. Something I’ve worked on for
> years.
> >
> >
> > I just last weak fixed my Break email folder to brakes, so I understand
> the spelling. I really just don’t feel like worrying about how this
> affects others.
> >
> > Please spell words any way you like as long as they sound like the word
> you mean and your valuable positive contributions continue.
> >
> > Lastly, Years ago, in college in 1984, I started using a spell check for
> the first time. I used it when mailing letters home to my mother. My mom
> wrote back and said, pleas stop using the spell checker, your letters are
> not nearly as fun to read.
> >
> > So, I won’t be worrying too, I mean Two, I mean to, much about my
> spelling as though it may be upsetting you others may miss the unusual
> effects being blind and only a audio learner has on correspondence.
> >
> > Have a gneiss day.
> >
> > Eric Caron
> >
> >> On Sep 17, 2023, at 1:19 PM, David McNeely <davmcneely40@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Eric, I don't mean to be rude or insulting. For years I have seen your
> misspelling of "brake" as "break" on the list. Perhaps you could spell
> this word correctly. 😏 Dave McNeely
>
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