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Is there no way to make the board's software automatically change "aperature" to "aperture"? Either that or an immediate electronic supply of analgesics and tranquillisers.
Payasam, I have large stack of APERTURE magazines next to my monitor so it's one of the few words I'm sure to spell correctly. Unless of course someone moves them. Jim
Jim, would you consider sending a copy each to, well, so many that you won't have any copies left? I've no idea, of course, if that will do any good. By the way, does the friendly looking canine sniff the image through the shutter release?
markinlondon
05-17-2006, 03:27
Would that be the aperature of your lense, by any chance?
Mark, diving for cover ;)
ClaremontPhoto
05-17-2006, 03:29
Nice one Mark.
We have a word "apperatuur" in Dutch. Is this the same as aperature?
Derkduit@xs4all
05-17-2006, 03:59
We have a word "apperatuur" in Dutch. Is this the same as aperature?
"appEratuur"?? euhm.. sla jij eens heel snel een Dikke van Dale open :)
Sorry for the remark in duth, there was a little error :)
Dictionary.com -
ap·er·ture P Pronunciation Key (pr-chr)
n.
An opening, such as a hole, gap, or slit.
A usually adjustable opening in an optical instrument, such as a camera or telescope, that limits the amount of light passing through a lens or onto a mirror.
The diameter of such an opening, often expressed as an f-number.
The diameter of the objective of a telescope.
No entry found for aperature.
"appEratuur"?? euhm.. sla jij eens heel snel een Dikke van Dale open :)
Typing mistake.
Should have read "apparatuur". But still I didn't get any answer to my question. :p
wlewisiii
05-17-2006, 05:38
Payasam,
Depending upon your browser/OS combination, you may be able to use the Google Toolbar. One of it's features is a spell checker for anything you type into a web interface. Perhaps that will help?
William
... By the way, does the friendly looking canine sniff the image through the shutter release?
That would the aPETure, which btw is how I misspell it!
:)
derevaun
05-17-2006, 09:30
Its worse than apposatrophe abuse :) Onomatopoeization of a triphthongized alveolar approximant? Monstrous!
ClaremontPhoto
05-17-2006, 10:30
Then there are the 'Epsom' printers here almost every day. Named after a horse racing track in southern England.
This must be "The Son of Lense" thread. Our weekly English lesson! :D
Then there are the 'Epsom' printers here almost every day. Named after a horse racing track in southern England.
Funny thing is, the spell checker on Blogger asks me to change EpsoN to EpsoM.
John Camp
05-17-2006, 10:55
A perfectly good word. An aperature is a place where aperitifs are stored before serving. A person who brings you your aperitif is an aperator, which *is* sometimes confused with aperature, but should not be. These words have fallen into disuse by the less literate among us, first replaced by "waiter" and "waitress," and now by the more politically correct "server." Still, many "servers" are flattered by the more...hmm...aristocratic, I guess I'd say..."aperator," so the next time you are in a cafe, signal your server by called, "Hey, aperator." It'll often speed attention.
JC
A perfectly good word. An aperature is a place where aperitifs are stored before serving. A person who brings you your aperitif is an aperator, which *is* sometimes confused with aperature, but should not be. These words have fallen into disuse by the less literate among us, first replaced by "waiter" and "waitress," and now by the more politically correct "server." Still, many "servers" are flattered by the more...hmm...aristocratic, I guess I'd say..."aperator," so the next time you are in a cafe, signal your server by called, "Hey, aperator." It'll often speed attention.
JC
I'll have a Dubonnet with a twist of lemon, Thanks.
Kurt M.
derevaun
05-17-2006, 11:35
A perfectly good word. An aperature is a place where aperitifs are stored before serving. A person who brings you your aperitif is an aperator, which *is* sometimes confused with aperature, but should not be. These words have fallen into disuse by the less literate among us, first replaced by "waiter" and "waitress," and now by the more politically correct "server." Still, many "servers" are flattered by the more...hmm...aristocratic, I guess I'd say..."aperator," so the next time you are in a cafe, signal your server by called, "Hey, aperator." It'll often speed attention.
JC
My word, you're right! But aperature is more properly an aperator's manifest skill with the ah-so. :cool:
markinlondon
05-17-2006, 12:38
Then there are the 'Epsom' printers here almost every day. Named after a horse racing track in southern England.
It's enough to get you downs, isn't it?
(Sorry)
Mark :D
For pity's sake, Mark, STAY DOWN.
I hope I too didn't put an apostrophe where it dont belong. Must get this Google thingy which, lemme see, will correct the errors which others kindly make for me.
The Dutch (single or doublet?) spelling seems about right. Maybe this forum should run in Polyglot Googlish.
But "aperature" and "lense" add up to a miserable score (two, not twenty), nowhere near the often stunning achievements of undergrads in my far-away teaching days.
Kim Coxon
05-18-2006, 05:25
If we can get an electronic gizmo to change lense to lens and aperature to aperture, maybe it will put the odd capital in Joe's posts. :D :D :D :D
Kim
jamiewakeham
05-18-2006, 06:09
So do people put negitive film behind their lense?
Jamie (who was tempted to ask for all those missing 'u's to be put back into 'colour' but decided against it...)
ClaremontPhoto
05-18-2006, 06:19
I 'should of' used a faster shutter speed. I 'would of' got a better picture.
RicardoD
05-18-2006, 06:53
Maybe to spice up the discussion on the forum, Jorge can use the cuss word list to change "Leica" to "Sh*t Box" just for fun.
All the best,
Ricardo
Too Poor to Afford a "Sh*t Box" MP and Lenses
I 'should of' used a faster shutter speed. I 'would of' got a better picture.
Yo, here in Noo Yawk we say "shudda" and "wudda" ! :D
thanatos
05-18-2006, 08:14
Edited for being just plain dumb. As you were, nothing to see here.
Damn, damn, damn. I forgot the best of them all, the historic "Lecia" of which people speak.
Nick, didn't your running boards have a grammar correction feature? It seems to me that the backside of "substitute" is where its face should be.
Nick, I remember a car mechanic who nearly became a nervous wreck when he couldn't find a Beetle's engine where he thought it should have been. As for the grammar business, the old is replaced *with* the new while the new is substituted *for* the old. The words have the same meaning, but one -- you decide which -- goes in reverse gear. By the by, Ferdinand Porsche, the brilliant designer of the Volkswagen, probably would not take kindly to seeing the name of his baby misspelt. Nor, perhaps, would a certain Adolf H., said to have been the man who dreamt up the "people's car": although it's perfectly possible that he swiped the idea from an underling and put his name on it.
Damn, damn, damn. I forgot the best of them all, the historic "Lecia" of which people speak.
And don't forget the famous Rollieflex TLR. I like it alot. Its max aperature is limited but the lense is sooo sharpe!
Abbazz
ClaremontPhoto
05-20-2006, 04:16
Do you often find Rollieflexes in Brunie?
Do you often find Rollieflexes in Brunie?
Not really, but there are mucho golden Lecias! (http://www.kbcamera.com/goldlensessb.htm)
Abbazz
Abbazz, clearly I'm grown old: I forgot the Rolliekord (3.5 Zenar) I used from the mid 1960s until less than a half dozen years ago. But then that was not a range-finder design. I cannot forgive myself, though, for having ignored the Universal Intrusive Apostrophe: no one seems to write "its" any longer, possessive case be damned.
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