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August 18th, 2017 at 1:58:36 PM permalink
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011	Quote: Pacomartin RADAR spawned SONAR, SOFAR, LOFAR, as well as LIDAR. and GAYDAR? If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose.

August 18th, 2017 at 2:04:45 PM permalink

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Quote: Pacomartin
I don't think the professors are suggesting a new required course, just a modification of existing class so that "Who be eating cookies?" is not simply dismissed as bad grammar. It just has an alternative meaning than "Who is eating cookies?".

That it was proper English 500 years ago is just a coincidence. Schools should teach what is considered proper English today. Anyone who says things like "Who be eating cookies?" is never going to make much more than minimum wage in a legitimate job.

Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber

August 18th, 2017 at 2:09:52 PM permalink

Pacomartin

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Quote: Evenbob
and GAYDAR?

Gaydar is a colloquialism. The other acronyms are actually used in military.

Radar was so popular that many other acronyms were changed to mimic it. SONAR used to be called ASDIC.

n 1916, the Anti-Submarine Division of the British Naval Staff, began studying quartz piezoelectric crystals and a system used to detect icebergs (funded after the Titanic disaster) to produce the world's first practical underwater active sound detection apparatus. Supersonics was changed to ASDics as a secrecy measure.

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