"ARCHITECT TO PLEASE VERIFY GLASS TYPE"
or
"ARCHITECT TO IDENTIFY GLAZING TYPE"
We've beeen arguing over this for the last little while in our office. Just wanted to know what you bright and educated folk thought.
The first one is incorrect in that it splits the infinitive with "please," a word utterly unnecessary in the assumed context. Split infinitives are not technically wrong, but 99% of them are incorrect stylistically, as is this one. The second incorrectly uses "glazing" instead of "glaze."
On the other hand, AFAIK, glass and glaze are different things, so there's nothing to choose between them on that basis. Verifying something and identifying something are also slightly different shades of meaning, so one would have to know the intent to choose there.
Bottom line: they both suck.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
quote:
Willias thought about the meaning of life:
First one sounds like engrish, second one sounds like you're asking an architect to inspect a donut.
Hehehehe.
Anyways, Bloodsage I'm trying to lay out a floor plan for a school in Jackson Missouri, and I'm trying to figure out how the windows are going to fit in the wall. The architect does not indicate what type of glass he wants to use, so I can't decide what frame to use in the wall.
edit: There are some windows that have the glass type labeled, however there are discrepancies in the wall sections. Some same 1" tempered glass, and some say 1" insulated glass for the same window. Lechium fucked around with this message on 10-16-2006 at 11:17 AM.
Sentow, Maybe fucked around with this message on 10-16-2006 at 11:14 AM.
"Glass type to be verified by architect," would leave no doubt, but if the shorthand is common, then, "Architect to verify glass type," will work, too.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
quote:
Channeling the spirit of Sherlock Holmes, Maradon! absently fondled Watson and proclaimed:
how about just "VERIFY GLASS TYPE"
I assumed multiple people would be using the plan, and it might be necessary to specify who should do what.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
quote:
Bloodsage thought this was the Ricky Martin Fan Club Forum and wrote:
I assumed multiple people would be using the plan, and it might be necessary to specify who should do what.
You would assume correctly good sir. There are the glaziers, the sub contractors, the guy who orders the parts, and the guys in our back shop who build it.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
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