m-m-m Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 a consensus must be reached!! cast your vote!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m-m-m Posted July 28, 2008 Author Share Posted July 28, 2008 mics seems like the best option to me, but from time to time I see people using "Mikes" .... which just doesn't seem right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waterboy Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 Agreed, sir. Mics to me as well. Just my humble 2¢ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MtL Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 Micrphonez. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MtL Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 Oh wait, you asked for abbreviated.... Anal-Electric trannies? Analog Electrical Transducers.... Err. No? Micz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m-m-m Posted July 28, 2008 Author Share Posted July 28, 2008 so far everyone seems to be in agreement. I made fun of someone once for asking "what kind of mikes do you guys use" so I told him the truth ... In one of the bands I'm in we have one mike and he plays drums, and then in the other band I'm in we have a workhorse Mike that plays guitar and sings. I thought it was worth at least a haha or a ' ' but I was treated like I had just farted at church. I don't go to that forum too much anymore .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
el-bo Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 what's wrong with farting in church... ??? all gods children must fart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChicoSatis Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 Of Mics and Men...ya know what I'm saying? If you do please let me know because I don't. Definitely MICS though. I've always used that and always will. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8E8s Posted July 29, 2008 Share Posted July 29, 2008 Funny post. I always wondered the same thing. Thanks for the laughs guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pantomimeHorse Posted July 29, 2008 Share Posted July 29, 2008 I have far more difficulty with the present participle of the verb, "to mic", than with the plural. - Do we say, for example, "miking up" or "micing up" ? Is there a hyphen, as in "mic-ing up" ? This becomes significant in the written word, as for an article in a magazine or web publication. - C Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m-m-m Posted July 29, 2008 Author Share Posted July 29, 2008 I have far more difficulty with the present participleof the verb, "to mic", than with the plural. - Do we say, for example, "miking up" or "micing up" ? Is there a hyphen, as in "mic-ing up" ? This becomes significant in the written word, as for an article in a magazine or web publication. - C wow ... never thought of that one. If this were a poll for that I would vote for mic-ing .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fader8 Posted July 29, 2008 Share Posted July 29, 2008 what's wrong with farting in church... ??? Nothing. As long as you've mic'd it. "Mice" is no good, as it implies a particular mic'ing technique. As a general rule of thumb when truncating a word, an apostrophe replaces what you've omitted. The crux of the biscuit, as Frank Zappa would say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ski Posted July 29, 2008 Share Posted July 29, 2008 Indeed! As in: • mic'ing • mic'd Other terms: synch (or sync) • synching • sync'd • or the long-winded "synchronized" Definitely not "sinked" or "sinkted". And "sinkteded" is, as Monty Python might say, "right out". EQ • EQ'ing • EQ'd • EQ's But I'd like to get your collecting take on "EQ-ing". Does that look right to you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camillo jr Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 Indeed! As in: EQ • EQ'ing • EQ'd • EQ's But I'd like to get your collecting take on "EQ-ing". Does that look right to you? Ah, we see here yet again the common misuse of the possessive 'ess' to mean a plural. What is the world coming to? As for Mics, I'm happy using miked or mic'd for the past participle. And EQ-ing looks good to me too. Standards? What standards? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ski Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 Ah, we see here yet again the common misuse of the possessive 'ess' to mean a plural. What is the world coming to? The world is going to hell in a handbasket, one plu perfect past participle plural at a time. But on a more [ahem] serious note does "EQs" look right? I dunno. Not sure. Somehow "EQ's" looks better. On second thought, EQs is looking OK to me now. Must be this non-serif font... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pantomimeHorse Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 Elingish is one of the few lnagauges taht can be udnertoosd wihtuot the ltteers bnieg in the rihgt oredr. Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are; the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit poorbelms. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by itslef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Ceehiro ! - C Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m-m-m Posted July 31, 2008 Author Share Posted July 31, 2008 Elingish is one of the few lnagauges taht can beudnertoosd wihtuot the ltteers bnieg in the rihgt oredr. Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are; the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit poorbelms. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by itslef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Ceehiro ! - C geez ... you shure know how to derail a thread with unimportant gibberish. why don't you learn to stay on-topic!!! jsut kdidgnig of cuorse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beer Moth Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 Just like music. Sight reading ish. Excusew me ,I'm not fully sorted st the mo. psakeign fo whhic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChicoSatis Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 Elingish is one of the few lnagauges taht can beudnertoosd wihtuot the ltteers bnieg in the rihgt oredr. Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are; the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit poorbelms. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by itslef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Ceehiro ! - C Wow. I actually was able to read that with no problems. I guess there research was correct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joel-schmoel Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 Lets not get bogged down by semantics...let's call them meeces and start a new trend Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m-m-m Posted August 1, 2008 Author Share Posted August 1, 2008 Lets not get bogged down by semantics...let's call them meeces and start a new trend that will work great ... then when I talk to someone that has a lot of microphones that all suck I can tell 'em that their 'meeces sound like feces' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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