Which Sniper rifle?Which Machine gun?

[Moderate]

and googles instead of goggles lol

[darkstar7890]

I guess I am learning airsoft terminology the hard way

[bpbcc1]

Originally Posted by darkstar7890

I guess I am learning airsoft terminology the hard way

It's not supposed to be hard.

[Moderate]

Should make a sticky thread about all airsoft terms, if there isn't one already.

[Styrak]

Originally Posted by moderatesniper

From now on I'm going to start bitching at people for saying "don't" instead of "do not"...and "tomato" instead of "tomato" because I think I can hear them mispronouncing it through their keyboard. /sarcasm

As bpbcc1 says, it's just to save space.

What's wrong about pronouncing don't as "don't"?

[Moderate]

Originally Posted by Styrak

What's wrong about pronouncing don't as "don't"?

It's not the full version of the word(s)...

Comparison:

Sniper ---------- Sniper Rifle

Don't ---------- Do Not

Limo ----------- Limousine

It's not the pronunciation of it, but the fact that it is an a shortened version of the word. Even if it is in common usage. I'm just trying to display the absurdity of many posts that people make about clips vs mags, sniper vs sniper rifle, etc. We all know what the person is talking about...so there is no need to correct the person. Just keep it to yourself, and laugh at the person's supposed ignorance. Make a thread about all of the airsoft terminology and post it here and in the FAQ section, if newbies continue to disregard that information, so be it.

[darkstar7890]

Originally Posted by moderatesniper

IWe all know what the person is talking about...so there is no need to correct the person.

Agreed, but now this thread has gone way off topic!

[kalnaren]

Originally Posted by moderatesniper

It's not the full version of the word(s)...

Comparison:

Sniper ---------- Sniper Rifle

Don't ---------- Do Not

Limo ----------- Limousine

It's not the pronunciation of it, but the fact that it is an a shortened version of the word. Even if it is in common usage. I'm just trying to display the absurdity of many posts that people make about clips vs mags, sniper vs sniper rifle, etc.

You're off the mark on one thing though:

"Limo" is a contraction of "limousine". "Don't" is a contraction of "do not". However, "sniper" is not a contraction of "sniper rifle", nor is "clip" a contraction of "magazine". A sniper and a sniper rifle are two compeltely different things. Just like a clip and a magazine are two completely different things.

We all know what the person is talking about...so there is no need to correct the person. Just keep it to yourself, and laugh at the person's supposed ignorance. Make a thread about all of the airsoft terminology and post it here and in the FAQ section, if newbies continue to disregard that information, so be it.

There's nothing wrong with correcting people's terminology in the post, especially if it's done unobtrusively (you'll notice this little rant you started took this thread far more off topic than my single post about terminology ever did). If correcting someone's terminology offends people, they need to toughen up a bit. It's good to teach newbies proper terms. Why? Because it's incredebly easier to help them out if we're all on the same page. Stuffing it in the FAQ won't work -nobody reads the FAQ's. If they did, we wouldn't need the newbie tank. The newbie tank is here for us to help and correct new people, not perpetuate ignorance.

Keep bastardizations to texting, where you're paying by the letter.

If you don't enforce spelling, grammar and punctuation, you're dooming the language to suffer degradation as common misspellings become normalized.

You kids may get away with that shit now, but when you get a job in the real world, you're in for a surprise. One typo or grammatical error in an otherwise perfect message can cost your credibility.

[Moderate]

Originally Posted by kalnaren

You're off the mark on one thing though:

"Limo" is a contraction of "limousine". "Don't" is a contraction of "do not". However, "sniper" is not a contraction of "sniper rifle", nor is "clip" a contraction of "magazine". A sniper and a sniper rifle are two compeltely different things. Just like a clip and a magazine are two completely different things.


There's nothing wrong with correcting people's terminology in the post, especially if it's done unobtrusively (you'll notice this little rant you started took this thread far more off topic than my single post about terminology ever did). If correcting someone's terminology offends people, they need to toughen up a bit. It's good to teach newbies proper terms. Why? Because it's incredebly easier to help them out if we're all on the same page. Stuffing it in the FAQ won't work -nobody reads the FAQ's. If they did, we wouldn't need the newbie tank. The newbie tank is here for us to help and correct new people, not perpetuate ignorance.

Fine, I'll just laugh maniacally in the corner at all of the assholes on ASC that are slowly turning into Greylocks (minus the flaming homosexuality, and the cross-dressing bit).

[Forever_kaos]

How about we just call a sniper Designated Marksman?
Or just DM. That way we can uh, be tacticool and have less of a hard time naming a sniper vs a rifle and such.

[kalnaren]

Originally Posted by moderatesniper

Fine, I'll just laugh maniacally in the corner at all of the assholes on ASC that are slowly turning into Greylocks (minus the flaming homosexuality, and the cross-dressing bit).

You do that.

[Styrak]

Originally Posted by Forever_kaos

How about we just call a sniper Designated Marksman?
Or just DM. That way we can uh, be tacticool and have less of a hard time naming a sniper vs a rifle and such.

But again, a sniper is not a designated marksman or DM. Two different things.

[Vinciguerra]

How did we get from talking about airsoft guns to tomato is a fruit and how you pronounce and type out words?????????

[kalnaren]

Originally Posted by Vinciguerra

How did we get from talking about airsoft guns to tomato is a fruit and how you pronounce and type out words?????????

Welcome to DramaSoft Canada.