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Re: For those that get hung up on semantics
Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2016 2:35 pm
by G26ster
jmorris wrote:mojo84 wrote:WildBill wrote:mojo84 wrote:WildBill wrote:G26ster wrote:I know I'm old, and my eye sight isn't the best, but I swear the package says "COUPS" Now we have 3 to choose from, magazine, clip, coup(s)
I guess my eyes are worse than yours. It does say coups, but I can't find what language it is.
I can't figure out the language either.
I believe it's French. My online translation shows coups = shots.
That was my first thought also. The two years of French I took in high school does me zero good nowadays though.
Yes, the info on the packaging is in both English and French. Magazine/Magasin and the description at the bottom of the package. Must be Canadian packaging.
Reminds me of the movie Canadian Bacon, with Dan Aykroyd playing the Canadian motorcycle cop, who stopped John Candy's truck with all sorts of foul insults to Canadians painted on it, because the insults were in
English only!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyO1ILQAGsU
Re: For those that get hung up on semantics
Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2016 3:23 pm
by bblhd672
I'm looking for the clip that holds my magazine together...
Re: For those that get hung up on semantics
Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2016 4:59 pm
by WildBill
bblhd672 wrote:I'm looking for the clip that holds my magazine together...
Re: For those that get hung up on semantics
Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2016 7:18 pm
by wheelgun1958
Suppressor.
Re: For those that get hung up on semantics
Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2016 7:51 pm
by ScottDLS
ATF calls them silencers... Maybe they call magazines clips. Or in ATF speak... high capacity ammunition feeding devices.
Re: For those that get hung up on semantics
Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2016 9:00 am
by mojo84
AndyC wrote:For those WHO get hung up on semantics
FIFY ;)
I don't want to commit a great faux pas. Does this make you the semantic or grammar police? It's very important I accuse you of being the appropriate one.
Re: For those that get hung up on semantics
Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2016 11:45 am
by WildBill
I must be bored. What can I say?
Some of the older forum members remember articles in Guns & Ammo Magazine written by Elmer Keith.
He was a very famous writer and story teller. Here are a couple of quotes from one article July 1969 issue.
Note that he also uses the word "magazines" three times in the same article.
In spite of the long-spur grip safety, and the arched grip housing, they always tended to eat away the web of my
hand between thumb and forefinger. The girls who loaded clips for me used to tape my hand heavily in the web.
I have Captain W.R. Strong’s old Springfield Armory Model 1911 that he bought through the NRA for the sum of $14.25 before
World War I. Bill, a brother of General George V. Strong, head of G-2 durng World War II, carried that gun through the
Chateau Thierry fight. He told me he used seven clips in that fight and did not think he missed a shot as the Germans were
coming over the parapet at point-blank range.
The .22s like all auto pistols, are again totally dependent on perfect ammunition. A dud ties them up and both
hands are necessary to clear the jam. Clips are slow to load with ammo but fast to load into the gun.
Re: For those that get hung up on semantics
Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2016 12:00 pm
by mojo84
WildBill wrote:I must be bored. What can I say?
Some of the older forum members remember articles in Guns & Ammo Magazine written by Elmer Keith.
He was a very famous writer and story teller. Here are a couple of quotes from one article July 1969 issue.
Note that he also uses the word "magazines" three times in the same article.
In spite of the long-spur grip safety, and the arched grip housing, they always tended to eat away the web of my
hand between thumb and forefinger. The girls who loaded clips for me used to tape my hand heavily in the web.
I have Captain W.R. Strong’s old Springfield Armory Model 1911 that he bought through the NRA for the sum of $14.25 before
World War I. Bill, a brother of General George V. Strong, head of G-2 durng World War II, carried that gun through the
Chateau Thierry fight. He told me he used seven clips in that fight and did not think he missed a shot as the Germans were
coming over the parapet at point-blank range.
The .22s like all auto pistols, are again totally dependent on perfect ammunition. A dud ties them up and both
hands are necessary to clear the jam. Clips are slow to load with ammo but fast to load into the gun.
I see the word "clips".
Yes, you must be bored.
Re: For those that get hung up on semantics
Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2016 12:35 pm
by surprise_i'm_armed
By the way, if a US flag is flown from a ground-mounted pole,
and it has to be brought 1/2 way down to honor some deceased person(s),
this flag is at half STAFF.
It won't be at half MAST in this case since only vessels have MASTS.
SIA
Re: For those that get hung up on semantics
Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2016 1:42 pm
by G26ster
mojo84 wrote:WildBill wrote:I must be bored. What can I say?
Some of the older forum members remember articles in Guns & Ammo Magazine written by Elmer Keith.
He was a very famous writer and story teller. Here are a couple of quotes from one article July 1969 issue.
Note that he also uses the word "magazines" three times in the same article.
In spite of the long-spur grip safety, and the arched grip housing, they always tended to eat away the web of my
hand between thumb and forefinger. The girls who loaded clips for me used to tape my hand heavily in the web.
I have Captain W.R. Strong’s old Springfield Armory Model 1911 that he bought through the NRA for the sum of $14.25 before
World War I. Bill, a brother of General George V. Strong, head of G-2 durng World War II, carried that gun through the
Chateau Thierry fight. He told me he used seven clips in that fight and did not think he missed a shot as the Germans were
coming over the parapet at point-blank range.
The .22s like all auto pistols, are again totally dependent on perfect ammunition. A dud ties them up and both
hands are necessary to clear the jam. Clips are slow to load with ammo but fast to load into the gun.
I see the word "clips".
Yes, you must be bored.
I imagine "clips" is a carryover from the M1 Garand, and similar rifles, where "clips" were loaded directly into the breach. Easy to see why folks, especially old timers, use the the word interchangeably. A lot of them carried M1 Garands and are simply used to the word "clip" as the device that loads ammo into any firearm.
As for WildBill being bored, I think most of us are, or we'd be out doing something useful
Re: For those that get hung up on semantics
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2016 9:49 am
by Abraham
A clip is a pin for holding women's hair in place aka a barrette.
Re: For those that get hung up on semantics
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2016 3:26 pm
by surprise_i'm_armed
Northeastern version of a piece of the highway = breakdown lane.
Southern version of the same = shoulder.
When I report someone broken down in the breakdown lane, TexDOT
does not understand me.
It's all in what you are used to.
SIA