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In Reply to: RE: Will high end audio survive Covid-19? posted by suekraft on July 28, 2020 at 20:11:45
The rich, who can afford high end audio, are unaffected by recessions or depressions - the billionaires and most millionaires are making money hand over fist during this time.Companies selling upper mid-fi or lower hi-fi may be hit hardest. Rich people don't buy that entry level hi-fi stuff and the middle class have to move their money to buy food and pay rent.
The companies selling $20,000 amplifiers will probably be fine - the companies selling $2,000 amplifiers may not be.
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Same as it ever was...
Same
As
It
Ever
Was!
His constant class warfare whining is tedious.
nt
I was stating a truth not whining about it.Please show where I was saying anything bad about the wealthy or championing the poor.
If you have $5 million in the bank and rely on stock markets for your income - it is a fact that you will not be as effected or at all affected in a recession, unless you invested poorly and lost money. If you are working at a job that closed during this pandemic - you are not going to buy stereo equipment or probably be able to buy stereo equipment. Why is this fact viewed as whining?
Indeed, at present, I am personally in the group of people who is financially unaffected by this pandemic.
Granted - I do have empathy for people who lost their jobs and incomes. Empathy - Non-psychopaths actually feel this. They do not not just know the dictionary definition of the term.
I realize you view Empathy as whining but I can't help that.
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and so true.
NT
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"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
Nt
I think I am interested in a $200 amp which can form a non hurting part of a $1200 check.
Is it right to use an Apostrophe for a plural?
Regards
Bill
Oops.
But then one of my degrees is in English Literature NOT English Composition.
Had my grammar and punctuation been better, I would have had more A+ papers instead of the usual A and A- grades. I couldnt' be brothered to proofreard then and, I, still, can't be bothered today%
You are a good man, RGA, like all those with Audio Note. My daughter has a Doctorate in English Literature and is now a Dean of a New England U.She bought a Bose without consulting me!
Regards
Bill
"She bought a Bose without consulting me!"
If my son did that I would disown him!
sex after 70 is like trying to play pool with a rope
I have never been particularly good with grammar and punctuation. I have to go back and proofread what I have written.
A neat trick for your daughter to teach her students who struggle is to have them read their essays backward. So start at the end of the paper and read each sentence by sentence from back to front. It helps get your head out of your ideas and read the essay without your head getting in the way.
Second language learners focus so much on the grammar and the punctuation they wind up worrying too much about these technical issues and not on their ideas. Plus, they wind up hating English.
I tell them my story from South Korea. I was teaching night school to business professionals.
A woman who worked in the office came up to me and said "Would you like a copy?"
A nice perfect sentence. I had no idea what she was talking about.
She then motioned "drinking." Ahh, COFFEE. South Koreans have trouble with F and P. So the perfect grammatical sentence is worthless without the key word being spoken correctly.
I tell this story to my Hong Kong Students and note that if this woman had said
"Like a Coffee you would?" I would perfectly understand what she was asking me even if the grammar is a train wreck.
Noam Chomsky has written at least one book on the most important aspects of language. He outlines something similar to my story.
This isn't to say grammar and punctuation isn't important but substance is vastly more important than form.
PS - you must be very proud of your daughter - that is a major accomplishment indeed. You will have to get her a good stereo for her birthday - or better yet when you want to upgrade you can pass yours on to her. Music is literature.
As an aside:
I was led a little astray back in my university days. I started out doing a business degree - Marketing/Accounting/Business Law that sort of thing.
But when I began taking Biology, Psychology, Criminology and Philosophy - I found that I much preferred these subjects - the high grades came much easier. Read the chapter once get 100% on the test. With Economics it was a slog - read it 4 times - fall asleep - wake up read it again - get a B. Meh - hated that crap.
The university told me that to be a teacher I should have a degree in a teachable subject - English, History or Math. So I switched from my passion and took Literature and History.
I wanted to do a masters and a Phd, but the problem was that I wanted to do those in Psychology or Philosophy. I was put off by the notion of going back, once again, to take the undergrad courses. I went to University for 13 years and needed a job to pay for all those loans.
Adding another 8 years to be a Psychologist was too daunting.
Cheers.
Yes RGA, very proud. She went to Clemson for undergraduate saying she loved the Football team. Did PhD at Baylor. She is a great lover of Rock
bands of 1960s to 80s. I have company there.
Regards
Bill
Is it right to use an Apostrophe for a plural?
No.
Actually, there is a rule where using an apostrophe to form a plural is accepted -- when there's a chance a mistake in reading can be made, typically for certain lowercase words or model names. It's called the "grocer's apostrophe." Here is the explanation of the rule cut from the page link below.... Doug Schneider
From grammarly.com
The one notable exception to this rule is the plural form of lowercase letters, which are formed with an apostrophe to prevent misreading:
Don't forget to dot all your is.
Don't forget to dot all your i's.
in the English teacher's post.
I typically use caps for clarity although your one example is highly unusual. :)
It is unusual, which is why the name. But it comes up every so often, particularly with model names that have to turn plural.
Doug Schneider
What a beautiful set of SP-3As on the rack to the left!
If the model name is caps, yes. If it's not, there's another solution, which is to say: "What a beautiful set of SP-3a preamplifiers on the rack to the left!" I don't know what ARC actually called those, though... but to keep the real model name.
Doug
I see so many people use it nowadays. I was wondering if the rules had changed. My school teacher would have been very angry if I had used it in plurals.
Regards
Bill
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