WWICYtheDEAD Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 Just a shot out to anyone wanting to play with tanks tonight. 1.25.19 Was going to be on for a couple hours round 4pm ish cmt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWZed Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 Was that a tank pun? Shot out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWICYtheDEAD Posted January 25, 2019 Author Share Posted January 25, 2019 Lol it was a typo but didn't fix it cause it worked Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWICYtheDEAD Posted February 15, 2019 Author Share Posted February 15, 2019 I will be on later today if anyone wants to screw around with tanks or anything else. I'll jump on ts just in case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWICYtheDEAD Posted February 16, 2019 Author Share Posted February 16, 2019 Had a great time last night with Wolf Sandy and Craven. Good to get some flight time in on a off day. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWCraven Posted February 16, 2019 Share Posted February 16, 2019 1 hour ago, WWICYtheDEAD said: Had a great time last night with Wolf Sandy and Craven. Good to get some flight time in on a off day. And of course our erstwhile host-Duck 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWZed Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 For the TO 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWSandMan Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 LOL! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWSittingduck Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 23 hours ago, WWCraven said: erstwhile host-Duck I had to look up that word... Im dead? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWGriphos Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 (edited) Lol. It literally means "former." But, in popular usage, it's come to mean something like "long-time" as well. As in "formerly and still now." It does get conflated with "esteemed" sometimes. Sorry, sometimes the professor in me just busts out. Edited February 17, 2019 by WWGriphos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWCraven Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 Thanks Prof, and no, I didn't mean that in the context that you were dead or formerly a good host but this; Quote "The use of erstwhile to mean “respected” stems from a conflation with esteemed in phrases such as erstwhile colleague, and is proscribed by most authorities." (proscribed) Respected, honorable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWDubya Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 So, U.S. Americans (or could that be "United Statesians") aren't the only ones to butcher the English language by re-manufaturing it to suit our own needs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWGriphos Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 Languages are living entities. They never stay static. And meanings don't come built in. As much as it bugs the hell out of me for people to keep saying "literally" when they mean "really" or that's "concerning" when they mean "causes me concern" (since "concerning" is a transitive participle, not intransitive), it's language. People are going to say what they say and mean what they mean and these new meanings are just part of the language now. My main field requires knowledge of ancient Greek. It's a totally different language than modern Greek. The funny thing is that you could put an Athenian from Socrates' time in a time machine and drop him 800 years into the future and he could read Koine Greek just fine. No problem. Simpler, even. Try that with English! Try to read Beowulf in the old English, or even Chaucer. But Attic Greek was pretty different from Ionic Greek in his own time period, and they were both Greeks. See what you guys started!! It's your fault! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWCraven Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 Gulp!! Think I'll use simpler vocabulary from now on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWSandMan Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 In Richmond, Va., I was once asked if I spoke different languages. I said yes. When asked which languages, I said English. The person questioning me paused, looked up ... realized I did not have a southern accent and laughed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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