[BITList] english as she is writ

[CT's]

"but why do they think it (and an aircraft carrier in a previous e-mail) is 
propelled by a nuclear reactor?" you asked, hugh

because the composer of the piece was american - and clearly not schooled in 
the proper use of the english language - as wot we 
are.............................





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From: "HUGH" <chakdara at btinternet.com>
Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 4:01 PM
To: <bitlist at lists.bcn.mythic-beasts.com>
Subject: Re: [BITList] more Nuclear Submarine

> Colin,
>
> A complex beast and no mistake, but why do they think it (and an aircraft
> carrier in a previous e-mail) is propelled by a nuclear reactor.  We might
> as well say a diesel ship is propelled by the daily service tanks.  I was
> only aboard one submarine, in drydock, completing in Scotts for the
> Australian navy, and it was claustrophobic.  We were weighed on and 
> weighed
> off.  The lads in Scotts' DO sub department worked to a different script
> from the rest of us.  A cast gunmetal pipe didn't raise one of their
> eyebrows - such were often necessary to solve a problem where a 
> conventional
> pipe was impossible to produce.  And come the day when all was done, they
> went onto nightshift for weeks to sketch measure and photograph the inside
> so as to bring the drawings into line with the many many "to place" items.
>
> Hugh.
>
>
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