This week's challenge

[H200GT]

Nothing worse than picking up a job half way through, not something I (or many others I wouldn’t have thought) would consider unless I knew that particular model well, its a minefield otherwise.

Bet the owner is both well pleased and relieved.

 

[Ffermer Bach]

So which would you rather haver have ,a good mechanic or someone who puts their punctuation in the right places

there was a book, eats shoots and leaves.

A Koala "eats shoots and leaves"

Al Capone "eats, shoots and leaves"

big difference

 

[quattro]

there was a book, eats shoots and leaves.

A Koala "eats shoots and leaves"

Al Capone "eats, shoots and leaves"

big difference

point being
I didn’t give toss at school apart from metal work,I don’t think it’s done me any harm
I know plenty of educated well spoken people who very clever, but have no practical common sense, each to their own
if whoever writes on here can write correctly, they probably do correctly
so if someone doesn’t I don’t see the point in knocking them if people can’t make out what there meaning, maybe there not that bright

 

[Drillman]

point being
I didn’t give toss at school apart from metal work,I don’t think it’s done me any harm
I know plenty of educated well spoken people who very clever, but have no practical common sense, each to their own
if whoever writes on here can write correctly, they probably do correctly
so if someone doesn’t I don’t see the point in knocking them if people can’t make out what there meaning, maybe there not that bright

To be honest I had no issue understanding the OPs post. It’s when folks type using teenage text speak that I find it hard to follow.

 

[tepapa]

What was up with the tractor to need stripping?

 

[Mur Huwcun]

Nothing worse than picking up a job half way through, not something I (or many others I wouldn’t have thought) would consider unless I knew that particular model well, its a minefield otherwise.

Bet the owner is both well pleased and relieved.

No but there’s an immense sense of achievement when you get it right and when folk start talking about you as the guy that sorted blah blah blah out!! Best one I did was split a tractor after someone had done a gearbox repair but lost most of the gears, removed gearbox cover and gears, circlips, teeth and bearings fell into the oil bucket. Only a cup full of oil usually came out!!!

 

[Gerbert]

@Agri-mechanics
Good on ya, more photo's please next time though
And hey, it's no problem for me not having correctly capitalized everything correctly or forgetting a comma (though I like it very much) but a bit of interpunction makes far more easy and pleasurable reading. Keep em coming.

 

[Farmer_Joe]

Good work, keep us updated with your next jobs and pics ????

 

[casemx 270]

Great job well done ?

 

[br jones]

This thread shows exactly what is happening all over tff, a poster puts something up and gets criticised for punctuation,there are some proper knobs on here

 

[Dry Rot]

I am a great believer in logic. It's when the mechanics who don't understand punctuation write the manuals that I get annoyed. I've recently got through six internet hosting companies because their instructions were nonsense and incomprehensible, but they were probably all Indians so it's forgivable. I've ended up with an Estonian hosting company who do at least try!

When writing, try saying it to yourself. A little pause probably warrants a comma, a bigger pause, a full stop. Then apply logic and take it from there. It's not that difficult. Otherwise, if the writer doesn't use punctuations, he's probably a lawyer, so exercise caution.

I have boundless admiration for any mechanic who can reassemble any sort of machine and not get bits left over. I was working on my tractor here and found I had too few bolts. It was the bloody sheepdog walking off with them, I kid you not!

 

[Exfarmer]

There is a world of difference between text speak which is awful and poor punctuation. Poor punctuation generally reveals how shocking our education system is. Obviously any mechanic who can tackle a job like that is intelligent, and does not deserve criticism, his school does though!

 

[quattro]

There is a world of difference between text speak which is awful and poor punctuation. Poor punctuation generally reveals how shocking our education system is. Obviously any mechanic who can tackle a job like that is intelligent, and does not deserve criticism, his school does though!

Not necessarily the schools fault, al I wanted to do was get home and work so the school didn’t really care back then if you kept quiet and didn’t disturb anyone else they didn’t care
I remember going on a work experience to a main dealer Volvo car garage in a village
the maths teacher who was in charge of the work experience scheme, told the garage I was absolutely useless and they could send me back to school
after a week they offered me a apprenticeship as a mechanic
I turned them down saying I already had a job when I left school
it was the garage owner at the end of 3weeks tried again to persuade me to go work there and then told me what the teacher had said
needless to say teacher got called a few choice words ,as he couldn’t do anything because he shouldn’t have said anything to garage in the first place

 

[pastit]

I must be thick ,didn't notice anything wrong with it .

 

[Dman2]

What part of the north east
It`s a big place

 

[roscoe erf]

ahh isolation at its best

 

[Dry Rot]

English is a living language and constantly changing. Believe me, I've put a couple of 16th century books into modern English because the bits I read were so interesting and others couldn't understand them, then I went on to do the rest of the book.

So long as what you write communicates your meaning efficiently, I don't think it really matters. After all, that's what language is for!

 

[Ffermer Bach]

English is a living language and constantly changing. Believe me, I've put a couple of 16th century books into modern English because the bits I read were so interesting and others couldn't understand them, then I went on to do the rest of the book.

So long as what you write communicates your meaning efficiently, I don't think it really matters. After all, that's what language is for!

I found it terrifically difficult to understand without punctuation, knowing when one sentence had finished and another started