If I hear one more Youtuber referring to an 'M' 'K' 23....

[Colin Allen]

I've barely ever heard anyone in a video pronounce Salomon correctly.

The one that really gets me (and this has been going on for at least 10 years) is the blatant global lie that is the use of the word polymer to somehow mean something different to plastic.  'Oh this is polymer, not just plastic'... get fucked.

One thing that really gets me is using "different to" rather than "different from". ?

 

[Cannonfodder]

So to summarise the thread.

Youtubers are illiterate fuckwits who don't so much speak the English language, but more chew it up and spit it out, and don't know what they're on about

 

[Galvatron]

The one that really gets me (and this has been going on for at least 10 years) is the blatant global lie that is the use of the word polymer to somehow mean something different to plastic.  'Oh this is polymer, not just plastic'... get fucked.

A similar one I've seen is a YouTuber who said in a head-to-head comparison that one gun's body was composed of polymer whereas another was composed of nylon. What's to say the first gun's body isn't also made of nylon polymer but the marketing team thought nothing of specifying it because the manufacturer had always used nylon?

 

[Sewdhull]

DNA is a polymer....

It's marketing, if you want to deride a Glock you call it plastic, if you're bigging it up you call it nylon polymer.

It's just words for those who are otherwise ignorant. Ignorant not being insulting btw.

 

[Galvatron]

In Italy it's more commonly referred to as "SOCOM" because it's easier to pronounce (and sounds much better, from a language perspective) than Mark 23, mk23 or any other name.

I get that. I use both terms but I called it the SOCOM originally because of it featuring in Metal Gear Solid by that name. It was shortly after that when I first played airsoft and discovered the MK 23 name in the Tokyo Marui catalogue.

 

[Lozart]

One thing that really gets me is using "different to" rather than "different from". ?

Different to, different from and even different than are all fine as far as the Oxford Living Dictionary is concerned. "Different than" of course will immediately single one out for ridicule as being rather American.

 

[_K4MF_]

By the same logic, does that mean that if you s**t yourself, you've got skid "M-Ks"? 

 

[The_Lord_Poncho]

By the same logic, does that mean that if you s**t yourself, you've got skid "M-Ks"? 

100%. And also the four Christian evangelists are famously only ever referred to as being Matthew, M-K, Luke, and John!

 

[DanBow]

you M K my words, It'll all end in tears! lol

 

[John_W]

Are we going to get wound up about how people pronounce Recce and CBRN as well?

 

[_K4MF_]

Are we going to get wound up about how people pronounce Recce and CBRN as well?

Oh you mean reess and kaburn?

 

[John_W]

Oh you mean reess and kaburn?

No, See Burn....

 

[Cr0-Magnon]

How has this turned into a two page thread ?

 

[DanBow]

How has this turned into a two page thread ?

Mental retardation?

 

[_K4MF_]

No, See Burn....

Well my Mum is actually "Chief Inspector of Words", She's done 5 operational tours of Oxford, and was "Head Wizard of Lightbulb Moments" at the Dictionary Factory and she says its Kaburn, so..... ?‍

 

[Colin Allen]

Different to, different from and even different than are all fine as far as the Oxford Living Dictionary is concerned. "Different than" of course will immediately single one out for ridicule as being rather American.

They may all be fine, but 'different from' is the grammatically correct version.

 

[hunter511]

Late to the party but I can't help feeling your first mistake was watching or listening to airsoft youtubers.......

There's some good tech channels but the majority of airsoft youtube content is absolute chud.

 

[RostokMcSpoons]

The one that really gets me (and this has been going on for at least 10 years) is the blatant global lie that is the use of the word polymer to somehow mean something different to plastic.  'Oh this is polymer, not just plastic'... get fucked.

Oh dear, guilty m'lud.

Can I choose who fucks me?   Always a been a tad partial to Scarlett Johansson, tbqh

 

[Lozart]

The one that really gets me (and this has been going on for at least 10 years) is the blatant global lie that is the use of the word polymer to somehow mean something different to plastic.  'Oh this is polymer, not just plastic'... get fucked.

Technically, technically, polymer and plastic are not the same thing.

Differences between polymer and plastic?


The terms polymer and plastic are not the same. Plastic is a specific type of polymer comprised of a long chain of polymers. Polymers, on the other hand, are made up of uniform molecules that are smaller than plastic molecules.

That said, all the bits of airsoft guns that aren't metal or wood are very definitely plastic and the people that say their polymer gun is betterer can indeed get fucked.

 

[RostokMcSpoons]

Technically, technically, polymer and plastic are not the same thing.

That said, all the bits of airsoft guns that aren't metal or wood are very definitely plastic and the people that say their polymer gun is betterer can indeed get fucked.

You see now I'm none the wiser.  Or is it none the stupider.

I'm definitely none something ?