Next time your really excited or happy just tell everyone how gay(happy) your feeling, or if your about to go smoke let everyone know your gonna go smoke a fag(cigarette). Like Matt said, things change over time. Doubt your gonna tell the checker how gay you are cause your in a good mood, or how bad you wanna smoke a fag.
Other Say it with me class....
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Jace Forest...BRAP!
- Location
- Lake Travis,Texas
This is true. I don't know, I hear the word engine and I think bad ass powerful fun. I hear motor and I think weak little efficient
turd...Guess I'm just a freak
onlyFX-1
Jace Forest...BRAP!
- Location
- Lake Travis,Texas
You are correct sir, I have not
SXIPro
JM781 Big Bore
- Location
- Here on the 'X' mostly
Get your engine runnin', head out on the highway.... Nah, not feeling it.
This is a subject that I have argued with my sarcastic (Swapmeet) friends for a long time. Their ignorance on the matter has caused me several headaches and I have just gotten to the point where I just ignore it. Here is a thought for those who say there is no difference between saying engine or motor, try ordering a new engine for your washing machine.
Look up common dictionary definitions of both words. It's perfectly acceptable to use motor instead of engine (in today's English), but not the other way around - for good reason (see links already posted).
Every engine is also a motor. Not the other way around.
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I am aware of this, I am a diesel generator technician with a degree in diesel technology. I had a professor fail 3 students because they called a diesel engine a motor on their final exams. I'm sure to people who aren't as involved with having to deal with both electric motors and engines on a daily basis, it's not a big deal, but for people like me, it can mean the difference between the correct parts to repair something.
kcmasterpiece
Sweet Baby Ray's Sucks
- Location
- Daytona Beach
i highly doubt it will make a difference for you. im sure you have to be more careful about vocabulary. but when i order parts, im usually pretty specific about what i want. i dont just say i need this for my motor/engine. if i do, they wont just guess, theyll start asking questions. like what motor/engine are you talking about, what year, make, model. its probably why they have part numbers and catalogs to go look up the numbers.
Cannibal
Tasty Human
- Location
- Summit Lake, WA
While we are on the subject:
It's DUAL carbs, not DUEL carbs.....they really have nothing to fight about.
It's DUAL carbs, not DUEL carbs.....they really have nothing to fight about.
I was about to say this until I saw your post... Definitions and context change as well. I listened to a friend tell someone that waverunner's were sitdowns and jetski's were stand ups. I didn't feel like argueing and let it be.
We could always reference the "N-word"...originally derogatory and now it's another word for friend among a specific demographic. English is awesome like that...lol
swapmeet
Brotastic
- Location
- Arlington TX
On another forum, I know this kid who kept saying he had a car for sail or that he was saleing something. No lie, Kotajoe can attest. I posted this for that member.
Selling
Sailing
Saleing
Selling
Sailing
Saleing
Fro Diesel
creative control
- Location
- Kzoo
Anyways....
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Cannibal
Tasty Human
- Location
- Summit Lake, WA
The word PERUSE used to mean to "examine with great detail".
Enough people used it incorrectly for long enough that it now is interchangeable with browse.
Enough people used it incorrectly for long enough that it now is interchangeable with browse.
Freakrider
X247
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- Tampa Bay area
djraider700
lol wut?
- Location
- South Jersey
A Jet Ski is a Kawasaki and a Waverunner is a Yamaha blah blah blah
My bilge pump has a motor.
Who uses proper English anymore?
My bilge pump has a motor.
Who uses proper English anymore?