Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yeah! Hear, hear, Ted.... lens... lense.....Call it what it REALLY is- "That part we accidently wipe stuff off our fingers with......" Bob (anybody got some old underwear?) Keene >Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 19:15:09 -0800 >From: Ted Grant <tedgrant@islandnet.com> >Subject: RE: [Leica] Lens / Lense > >Ladies and gentlemen, > >For heavens sake, who the hell cares how you spell it, as long as all of >you understand a "lens" as usually used in our vernacular....meaning a >glass object attached to a box holding light sensitive film of some >variation therein being colour or B&W! Or what ever the hell you're using! > >The Canadian Press spelling for such an object is "Lens", so being a true >red blooded Canadian photojournalist, I guess all you folks spelling lense >instead of lens will be deemed spelling it wrong!:) Hey don't get all antsy >and everything with the flames, as we Canadians don't give a flying owls >hoop how you other folks spell it! After all, The Canadian Press is the >guide to Canadian/English/American spelling in this country.:) And if >you're confused, you should live here and take a spelling test! :) > >So there! :), Lens it is! Now no more spelling nonsense, just get your >asses out the door and shoot filum! :) > >ted > >Ted Grant >This is Our Work. The Legacy of Sir William Osler. >http://www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant