412 virtues

[Rubbond]

Regardless of all of the technical details.
I am surprised that especially Bristol owners should have lost grasp of the
english language!
It should of course be : similar to, comparable with, and different from.
Not hard to remember, but it would make reading your e-mails much easier!
With best regards,
Andrew Knox.

[Jervaulx]

I think it's also worthwhile remembering that, other people may not have
been as well educated as yourself and deserve to be treated just the same as
everybody else. Petty comments which remind me of telling naughty school
children they have done wrong, is just plain ignorant.

Andrew

[Rubbond]

Ouch! No offense intended, but I do think this is important for the future
of the english language. The BBC can't even get it right!
And as for plain ignorance, no, I don't think so.
I certainly don't want to continue this discussion further, so let's leave
it at this.
I just wanted to correct the grammer, which I found a little irritating..
And yes, I do think this is important!
Am I wrong in thinking this?
Andrew Knox.

[Peter Grace]

There's a very good story in yesterday's Financial Times Weekend, harking back to CP Snow's comments in the late 40s on the 'two cultures' - the literary intellectual and the scientist - and how little they understood each other's ground breaking discoveries. Snow more or less said that a scientist that didn't understand the Joyce was bad, but a critic that didn't understand quantum theory was even worse. Should the divide grow to great, Snow argued, where one side didn't understand 'the finer things' and the other 'how things worked', it would result not just in two clashing cultures, but perhaps the downfall of western civilisation as we know it. Stirring stuff.

Andrew's comments about grammar may seem pedantic, but after all, this is a forum of pedants, and none moreso than Kevin, Our Glorious Founder, who has got into trouble with this kind of tenacious bone-chewing before.

I have to say I enjoy it. Bristol owners are supposed to be eccentric, heretical and hole-picking. I am disappointed when they are not.

In the old days, Hugo used to cheer us all up with his anti-EU rants. The counter-culturalists, who were only interested in 'how things work' chased him away. Or maybe he was taken away. We never really learned the answer.

Andrew's pedantry is welcome. So is Paul's and so is Kevin's. I would like to think this is a forum of 'Bristol culture', which includes not only your musings on the Bristol you are restoring, but also those times when, glancing up from your great project, you stare out the dusty windows of your garage, and see fairies dancing at the bottom of the garden.

The trouble with the old BOC forum, as I understood it, was they didn't like dissent or heresy.

P

PS. Grammer, or grammar?

[Jervaulx]

That's fine Andrew, I was just worried if anybody with grammer issues which
I am sure I do, will feel pressured to the point that they stop posting.

I'm glad you have also noticed that the BBC are poor. The BBC website has
appalling grammar to such a degree, some stories don't actually make sense.
Proof reading and good research would help in their case. They have even
just won an award for best website LOL.

Regards

Andrew

[Jervaulx]

I do understand what you mean Peter. I was just concerned of anyone who has
poor grammar through a poorer education, shouldn't feel bullied to the point
they may feel they shouldn't contribute. Of course I am not saying Andrew
was bullying anybody and is entitled to his view as much as anybody else is.
It just gives me concern for anyone whose grammar is not perfect through
ability rather than laziness.

I don't have any issues with Andrew and if he was referring to individuals
who do have good grammar, but have become lazy then that is fine. I
apologise if my grammar is questionable, as my education was far from
perfect or priviledged as some say. I do try my best though.

Andrew

[412usa]

I have a letter sent in December 1980 from the fabled Eric Storey, of Bristol Cars, to Guy Drummond, the original owner of the 412USA. I will scan and post the letter when I replace the dead

computer my scanner is connected to.


Eric States “There is something about the driving qualities of the 412 which has always appealed greatly to me."


Peter McGough