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[Ducatiboy stu]

IDK, FTW, RDWAHAHB

 

[AJS2154]

I admire somebody who puts themself out there and has a go Chris. Too many people use the "cooda, wooda"tecnhique in this world. Keep trying, it will be better each time.

I have done a reasonable amount of public speaking in my employment and in other aspects of my life....from small to big groups of over 300 at times. A person who I had a lot of respect for once said to me that if you believe in what you are saying and have adequately perpared there is no need for notes. Wing it without them and see what happens. If its crap, just tape over it.

Good luck, Anthony

 

[chrisluki]

When I was learning to touch type I found myself always wanting to cheat and look at the keys. So I took them out and put them back in no particular order. It was suddenly more of a brain drain to look down and work out where the hell the "J" key was supposed to be, problem solved. My point is, encrypt the notes using an Enigma Cipher machine before you put them up, then it will be more of an effort to decipher them than to remember what it is you want to say. ;-)

In all seriousness good job.

*Edit - As a side note, I still kick myself that I didn't purchase an Enigma Cipher Machine when I was at uni (one of my non-beer related interests), they were less than $5K, they go for millions now!

hehe, have you been drinking??

 

[chrisluki]

wait a sec, do you write "I've learned my ABCs"? or "I've learned my ABC's"? While there is no 'hard and fast' rule on these sorts of things, the most common way of pluralizing multiple capital letters, as in IBUs, is to omit the apostrophe. The apostrophe is used to indicate possession and is only (umm, only in well-edited publications) used to indicate plurality when following a single capital letter, as in: "I got straight A's in grammar class." You'll find exceptions, of course, so you have to be the judge as to whether you want to use an indication of possession to indicate plurality.

Plurality! Thanks.

 

[chrisluki]

I admire somebody who puts themself out there and has a go Chris. Too many people use the "cooda, wooda"tecnhique in this world. Keep trying, it will be better each time.

I have done a reasonable amount of public speaking in my employment and in other aspects of my life....from small to big groups of over 300 at times. A person who I had a lot of respect for once said to me that if you believe in what you are saying and have adequately perpared there is no need for notes. Wing it without them and see what happens. If its crap, just tape over it.

Good luck, Anthony

Great advice. If nothing else I am passionate about this!

 

[yankinoz]

Enjoyed it. Nice one! Particularly liked the porn music intro! Nothing really to add, I think it's a good start. Looking forward to the next one. Another person might have you for the apostrophe in "IBU'S" but I'm not going to be that grammar nazi

In both the UK and US both IBUs and IBU's turn up in academic and popular publications. Same for other acronyms. In this and some other uses an apostrophe does not indicate possession.

Herr Goebbels

 

[AJS2154]

I take your word for that Herr Goebbels, but from a logic point of view, it seems odd that adding an apostrophe does not apply when attached to an acronym. English is confusing for somebody who speaks it as a first language......it must be so terribly confusing for anybody trying to learn it as a second language.

Another example of confusing plurality. A single hair is a hair, the collective noun for many hairs is hair. Only when you start thinning and have almost no hair left is it then known as hairs......i only have a few hairs left!!

 

[MastersBrewery]

wait a sec, do you write "I've learned my ABCs"? or "I've learned my ABC's"? While there is no 'hard and fast' rule on these sorts of things, the most common way of pluralizing multiple capital letters, as in IBUs, is to omit the apostrophe. The apostrophe is used to indicate possession and is only (umm, only in well-edited publications) used to indicate plurality when following a single capital letter, as in: "I got straight A's in grammar class." You'll find exceptions, of course, so you have to be the judge as to whether you want to use an indication of possession to indicate plurality.

In this case IBU is a unit of measurement such as metres, miles, litres or gallons mutiples of any unit are implied and therefore when using an acronym of measurement the apostrophe and the S are superfluous.