Stunk, stank or stinked?
Depends…
“It Stunk”,
“It was mighty Stank”, alternate: “It Stank to high Heaven!”
Present: Stink
Past: Stank or Stunk
Past Participle: Stunk
One advantage of online communications…you can’t receive a scented email…yet.
Does that mean its:
Think
Thank, and
Thunk?
or is it thinked? Nope, its thought, I think.
Thanks.
Alright, so that joke went thunk!
Drink
Drank
Drunk
A skunk sat on a stump,
The skunk thunk the stump stunk,
The stump thunk the skunk stunk
How many ‘Ss’ are in that?
none
then again, there is
skink
skank
skunk…
Doug,
Hedor
Apesto’
Apestaron’
Your spanish is not my french, Monsieur Axt.
Buona sera!
Don’t worry Doug. In 20 years specifications will be written in Spanish.
Mark my words. (marque mis palabras.)
expert witness deposition, President’s column or field report?
Peter,
This is my personal belief and safe bet. Just look at the statistics. Hispanics are the fastest growing population in the US. I read a report that said that one in 7 people in the US are Hispanic.
Look at any technical bookstore and you will see Spanish/English construction dictionaries and several books translated in Spanish. Heck, our very own CSI is working on a Spanish Masterformat 2004!
Our LA projects were entirely bilingual. Managers spoke and wrote english (kinda -ha). Foremen were bilingual and smarter than the managers. Labor 100% spanish-speaking. Most productive team of people I’ve seen anywhere; excellent craftsmanship.
The excellent specs (I was not a spec writer at the time :-> ) got as far as the fax machine (sent to subs blitzkreig-like), then were relegated to the waste paper basket. Maybe two copies of specs at the job; $15M project; 4 months. Lots of pointing and doodles.
In short - you’re right. It’s an invasion. We’re better for it.