Using the four "C's" in firearm terminology.
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That is because the human brain is a wonderful thing and most people are able to see through the garbage to get the meaning of some of the worst gibberish around.
Even Kamlooky with his intentionally unique dialect seems to have no problem getting his meanings across. (Well most of the time anyways.
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I agree with your general overall sentiment. It can irk me just a little when blatant misuse occurs.
However, your post is quite ironic and don't think it was intended as such. You're admonishing us for using incorrect language when you yourself are too lazy to care about the correct usage of punctuation, grammar, and spelling?
Not an ex-teacher, per chance?
One thing in the whole clip/mag debate (and I hope other francophones here chime in) - I can't remember a magazine ever being called anything other than "une clip" by my Dad or relatives. As someone else said - as long as it's not a safety issue, hey. I don't know if it has changed or not, but when gun dealers had to log ammo sales in Ontario, they had to record "calibre". So the place I bought my ammo at the time would record ammo sales as .308, .311. .223. .458, etc. If our biggest concern as gun owners is terminology, we will definitely be living in a nice world.
Here is an example of how English has changed in the last thousand years. A thousand years from now - if humans are still on this planet - it will still be evolving.
‘Ðunor cymð of hætan & of wætan. Seo lyft tyhð þone wætan to hire neoðan & ða hætan ufan.’
May be "translated" word-for-word as:
Thunder comes from heat and from moisture. The air draws the moisture to it from below and the heat from above.
‘Ðunor cymð of hætan & of wætan. Seo lyft tyhð þone wætan to hire neoðan & ða hætan ufan.’
May be "translated" word-for-word as:
Thunder comes from heat and from moisture. The air draws the moisture to it from below and the heat from above.
Macarena Man
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Hey Frenchie !
I'm from the west, and as you say ...... they were always called/referenced as 'clips' ....... magazine was something that you read while sitting on the can/john. Even the sales and manufacturing companies called them clips. I suspect some of the 'hip youngsters' are trying to re-invent the wheel here.
How's your 'Habitants' doing ? ........ or, are you a Leaf ? (grinning like a Cheshire cat)
I still hear firearms owners referring to their firearms licenses as FACs. And a good percentage of them, most certainly are not familiar with many of the firearms regulations. If they actually knew the regulations, they would not be posting the questions that they do, asking about the firearms regulations.
Sens fan, but hey, long live Leafs fan. I love 'em - they've shown time and again that they can be good losers!
I'd love to hear from more of the Frenchies, as you say. I know that when I was younger, no one called 'em mags (in French).
My first post was in response to the definitions given by 'Boo'; a gun is not just a crew served weapon. The definitions in the world of artillery are quite specific. Machineguns may or may not be crew served, but they are not artillery. Nor are sub machineguns. They are not called machine rifles, but machineguns.. Mortars are artillery, but the modern muzzle fed mortar is not called a gun.
"Gun" has been used as a catch-all for all small arms, and this is not just a recent development, nor bad English. If you read a gun book by a British author, when they use the term "gun", you can be 99% sure they mean a shotgun. When they mean rifle, revolver, pistol, they typically say so. On the other hand you have the "The Gun and It's Development", by W.W. Greener, covering all types.
It doesn't really bother me if you call your revolver a pistol or your pistol a gun. What did bother me was the post above, claiming to hate the misuse of terminology, when they don't have a clear understanding of the terminology themselves.
Unfortunately not everyone knows enough about cartridges to even know which ammunition to use in their firearm. I watched one fellow fire a whole box of ammunition, only to discover that he was shooting 300win mag loads in a 300 Weatherby rifle. He thought that a 300 magnum was a 300 magnum, so any 300 magnum ammunition was suitable for his rifle. He simply purchased the cheapest 300 magnum ammunition that Canadian Tire had, and went out to the range to try out his new rifle. If it wasn't for me noticing that his fired brass looked strange, he would not have even known that there was a problem.
That is just one more reason why a person should have a decent understanding of cartridges.
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I wonder how anyone ever found a place like Canadian Gun nutz with gun being such a incorrect blanket statement and nutz being spelled wrong? Somehow people seem to bumble along and get the right shells in their deer-guns, and if they happen to call their PAL a FAC gun people older than 6 seem to know what they are calling about. When talking to non-gun people they are more likely to call it a gun-licence anyway, even if it doesn't allow us to have a artillery piece or a machine gun. Unfortunate thing, that.
Guess what? The smart guys aren't as smart as they think they are, and those dumb ones aren't as dumb as they seem.
Guess what? The smart guys aren't as smart as they think they are, and those dumb ones aren't as dumb as they seem.
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Some very famous people - writers and hunters alike, have used the terms shotty, clip and guns among other things without worrying about trivial crap like " oh my ,I'm using the wrong terminology or slang "
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