Comments by "GunFun ZS" (@GunFunZS) on "Firearms Basics: Rifle Length Terminology" video.

  1. ExF1Guy a lot of old milsurp would have been melted down if there wasn't a market for crap rifles to experiment on. Sporterizing is the only reason they still exist.
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  2. Either. Linguistic pedantry is often an exercise in proving oneself to be both wrong and petty.
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  3. Look up forgottenweapons.com there's an article called "how to become a professional gun nerd" or something along those lines.
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  4. It comes from the french term which rhymes with bean. But don't take my word for it, take it from some other guy on the internoodle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg2fSD2Vl58 Language isn't static, however much we would like it to be. Unfortunately for you, if you take the position that it is static, then you are still claiming to be wrong, as you are asserting that the intermediate pronunciation is the correct one, not the original or the more recently predominant version, and not both pronunciations. Additionally, you are in the geopolitical minority, as your version is popular with the least number of nations, and not even the majority of English speakers. So, you might want to get off the high pony, and climb onto a horse.
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  5. Your sense of history is askew. We yanks are closer to a linguistic time capsule, as we formed literate at the same time as a universal bible, and standardized dictionaries and schoolbooks. We had 4 major regional dialects which have been largely homogenized by the broadcast era. Meanwhile England/ the UK was still evolving (or corrupting, if you prefer.) Of course, English itself is a bastardization of other languages, but even England doesn't speak some mythically pure version of the language. England can't agree on one pronunciation of anything, and presently has about 24 major subspecies of the language, which repeat on a strange geographic grid across your nation. Since you seem to think the language is bastardized by we filthy colonials, which regional dialect from which era is the true and proper English? BBC's version from the 1930s? Perhaps the Georgian period London shopkeeper's English which was only really spoken by educated people from lower classes who spoke other dialects at home? How about the drawl spoken by your gentry? The nasal twang of Churchill, or the "Silly old Ass" public school patois of PG Wodehouse's world? P'raps Yorkshire or Manchester style from present day? I eagerly await your response which shall set a final solution to this age old problem.
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  6. You probably can safely whack off the 2" or so of counterbore a fair amount of them have though.
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  7. order words in sense not make
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  8. I don'k think you could prove or disprove the claim of "most" there for us, or for that matter show that you don't do the same. I think you could show that the common theme of all forms of English is that they are impossible to apply consistent rules to.
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  9. Cavalry in Manchuria. Not to mention they basically burnt all the powder in the barrel and were comparatively quiet.
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  10. Ah. Dismissing an entire nation as a homogeneous block because you can't point to evidence. You can't answer your arguments so you just say that I don't count. A brilliant strategy. I'd suggest calling us all homosexuals as part of name calling to further bolster your argument, but you already did that, sir. Why not keep it stereotypical, and add that you'll have sex with my mother, or cut my face? On the other hand, if you are open to addressing points via logic and rhetoric, please read and respond to the following: You still haven't said which residents of the UK speak real English. Or what time period. I'll assume you can't, which is why you dodged that issue, since it is the biggest hole in your whole perspective. You say American's don't count, I'll one-up you then. People in the UK don't speak "proper English" anymore either. If we don't count, I don't think you can make a good case that Britons should count. U wot m8? Probably the only groups in the UK known for speaking clear English are immigrants. The Germans speak better English, your Pakistani and Indian residents speak intelligible English because they put effort into it. The truth is that English is the 'lingua franca' of the modern world, and most of the modern world is getting their colloquial English from the worst of American sitcoms: "friends", and from training related to American software. The youth in the UK are as likely to call thin fried pieces of potato "chips" as "crisps" and say "TV" rather than "telly". If you continue to think of this as culturally winning or losing, then your only conclusions can be denial or loss. On the other hand, you could realize that English like all languages is inherently mutable, and is homogenizing due to mass media, which mostly comes from the USA, but is also adapting to fit the linguistic habits of other languages. i.e. my own personal pet peeve of bad usage. "Show me how _ feels like." It should be either "how that feels" or "what __ feels like" but not a combination. However the language is changing and that appears to be the new dominant usage. I can grow up or spend my life being petty and bitter about trivialities. I choose to be interested, rather than bitter. I invite you to join me in that perspective.
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