OT Re: Wood Duck redux questionnaire answers:

Now Mariss,

Dont go nukular on us!

Your likely to get further along that way then if you explode...

Its just a suggestion<G>

Ballendo

My faves: your/you're, further/farther, its/it's, and in the no.1
spot: then instead of THAN.

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "Mariss Freimanis"
<mariss92705@...> wrote:

>
> Pedant, part 2:
>
> 1) One who pays attention to details and is meticulous in his own
> work.
>
> 2) One who is bothered by an obvious and continued misspelling of

a

> word, bothered as in "it hurts the eyes".
>
> (My definitions.):-)
>
> Tony, Thanks! "Hobbiest" has made me scream every time I see it

but

> it has been an unvoiced silent scream until now. Hobbyist,

Hobbyist,

> HOBBYIST darn it!! There, somehow I feel better now.
>
> Next: Get the guys that use eminent and imminent interchangably.

That

> will be a prize!
>
> Mariss
>
>
>
> --- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "Graham Stabler" <eexgs@>
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, Tony Jeffree <tony@>

wrote:

> > >
> > > At 15:47 09/05/2006, you wrote:
> > > >There is a definate market for MDF IMHO because a lot of
> hobbiests
> > >
> > > Where does this "hobbiest" word come from?? There seems to be

a

> rash of
> > > "hobbiests" appearing in these fora recently...Surely there

can

> only be
> > > one, as in "Fred is hobbier than Bert, but George is

definitely

> the
> > > hobbiest" ;-)
> > >
> > > I think the (English) word you are groping for here
> is "hobbyist"...
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Tony
> > >
> >
> > Pedant
> >
> > 1. One who pays undue attention to book learning and formal
> rules.
> > 2. One who exhibits ones learning or scholarship

ostentatiously.

> > 3. Obsolete. A schoolmaster.
> >
> > :)
> >
> > Graham
> >
> > p.s. I'm actually glad you noticed I'm sure I've been writing it
> like
> > that for ages.
> >
>