I know, I know. I'm like somebody's old elementary school teacher. But I have a valid gripe that transcends all forums: Not using paragraphs.

Huge blocks of text with no double line breaks can be a killer on the eyes. It's easy to lose your place if slightly distracted, and there is no natural visual distinction between like statements.

Hey, it's not a hanging offense, like spelling "hangar" wrong, but I know those of us out here who have to stare at a screen all day long sure would appreciate a few paragraphs to break of the blobs of text.

Thanks.

Jeeeeezzzz, yer asking for a lynch mob...

Good point, and I'm guilty..

MTV

mtv wrote:Jeeeeezzzz, yer asking for a lynch mob...

Good point, and I'm guilty..

MTV

And some are too windy too. Sum up.

Tim

May as well tune some of these guys up about their spelling and grammar while your at it (Ah humm..... Tim ).

I think the spelling and grammer on this forum is exceptional when compared to what I see on some other forums I also follow. It seems pilots are a better educated lot.

I dont see what the big deal iis if some of uz dont type the way you like. I mean were pilots so what do you expect!If you want perfect riting go tosum othersight?

Seriously, points taken 170Z!! I have to get back out to the HANGAR now

BTW I always thought the origin of the term was due to the WWI era practice of actually hanging the planes vertical, to fit more of them in the, ehhh, building. I have a picture in one of my old books showing just that.

It turns out its origin appears to date from the mid 19th. century, is French, and originally denoted a building to house a carriage.

The word also does not "show up" on the spell checker as an error of course, but now I want to build a hanger shaped hangar, so I would not have to change the way I apparently have spelled it for years!

You're a funny guy, CG, so I offer you this: Primarily associated with the modernist movement, stream of consciousness is a form of interior monologue which claims as its goal the representation of a lead consciousness in a narrative (typically fiction). This representation of consciousness can include perceptions or impressions, thoughts incited by outside sensory stimuli, and fragments of random, disconnected thoughts. Stream of consciousness writing often lacks "correct" punctuation or syntax, favoring a looser, more incomplete style. The coining of the term has generally been credited to the American psychologist William James, older brother of novelist Henry James. It was used originally by psychologists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to describe the personal awareness of one’s mental processes. In The Principles of Psychology, Chapter IX, The Stream of Thought, James provides a phenomenological description of this sense-ation of consciousness: “Consciousness, then, does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as ‘chain’ or ‘train’ do not describe it fitly as it presents itself in the first instance. It is nothing jointed; it flows. A ‘river’ or a ‘stream’ are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described. In talking of it hereafter let us call it the stream of thought, of consciousness, or of subjective life” (239) [emphasis in the original]. It is helpful at the outset to distinguish stream of consciousness from free association. Stream of consciousness, from a psychological perspective, describes metaphorically the phenomenon—the continuous and contiguous flow of sensations, impressions, images, memories and thoughts—experienced by each person, at all levels of consciousness, and which is generally associated with each person’s subjectivity, or sense of self. Free association, on the other hand, is a process in which apparently random data collected by a subject allow connections to be made from the unconscious, subconscious and preconscious mind(s) to the conscious mind of that subject.

nofate wrote:I think the spelling and grammer on this forum is exceptional when compared to what I see on some other forums I also follow. It seems pilots are a better educated lot.

That's funny.

1SeventyZ wrote:You're a funny guy, CG, so I offer you this: Primarily associated with the modernist movement, stream of consciousness is a form of interior monologue which claims as its goal the representation of a lead consciousness in a narrative (typically fiction). This representation of consciousness can include perceptions or impressions, thoughts incited by outside sensory stimuli, and fragments of random, disconnected thoughts. Stream of consciousness writing often lacks "correct" punctuation or syntax, favoring a looser, more incomplete style. The coining of the term has generally been credited to the American psychologist William James, older brother of novelist Henry James. It was used originally by psychologists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to describe the personal awareness of one’s mental processes. In The Principles of Psychology, Chapter IX, The Stream of Thought, James provides a phenomenological description of this sense-ation of consciousness: “Consciousness, then, does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as ‘chain’ or ‘train’ do not describe it fitly as it presents itself in the first instance. It is nothing jointed; it flows. A ‘river’ or a ‘stream’ are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described. In talking of it hereafter let us call it the stream of thought, of consciousness, or of subjective life” (239) [emphasis in the original]. It is helpful at the outset to distinguish stream of consciousness from free association. Stream of consciousness, from a psychological perspective, describes metaphorically the phenomenon—the continuous and contiguous flow of sensations, impressions, images, memories and thoughts—experienced by each person, at all levels of consciousness, and which is generally associated with each person’s subjectivity, or sense of self. Free association, on the other hand, is a process in which apparently random data collected by a subject allow connections to be made from the unconscious, subconscious and preconscious mind(s) to the conscious mind of that subject.

Aaahhhh! A perfect example of better living through chemistry!