Being an Aussie its part of our culture to give close to pointless nicknames. If the name is slightly long and requires a slight amount effort to pronounce it correctly it's just not cricket to say the real name. Even when the name is short and easy to say we still have to change it to something more acceptable like Bruce into brucey.

Anything that's short and starts with ch just makes it more fun to down play the lethalness that about to befall an unwitting ship that has found its self at range 1 of an exposed target locked chirpy

"Rear Admiral Whatsisname"

since nobody else is a rear admiral, they'll know who i'm talking about.

I'm confused. On which planet(s) do they speak French in the Star Wars universe? I'm guessing it's the same planet where periods aren't placed inside quotation marks.

I'm confused. On which planet(s) do they speak French in the Star Wars universe? I'm guessing it's the same planet where periods aren't placed inside quotation marks.

It's an act of grammatical protest. It's absurd that the rules for quotation marks are different from parentheses; I apply the same rules to both. If the punctuation mark is part of the sentence that's being quoted, it goes inside, but otherwise it goes outside.

I'm confused. On which planet(s) do they speak French in the Star Wars universe? I'm guessing it's the same planet where periods aren't placed inside quotation marks.

It's an act of grammatical protest. It's absurd that the rules for quotation marks are different from parentheses; I apply the same rules to both. If the punctuation mark is part of the sentence that's being quoted, it goes inside, but otherwise it goes outside.

This reminds me of an argument my wife and I once had about this very topic, not Chippy we think Chippy should stay with Tim & Eric but rather punctuation. It ended with her throwing The Elements of Style at my head... Luckily, it is a small book.

I'm confused. On which planet(s) do they speak French in the Star Wars universe? I'm guessing it's the same planet where periods aren't placed inside quotation marks.

It's an act of grammatical protest. It's absurd that the rules for quotation marks are different from parentheses; I apply the same rules to both. If the punctuation mark is part of the sentence that's being quoted, it goes inside, but otherwise it goes outside.

I think your movement needs some kind of hashtag, but I'm concerned that people will believe it to be another form of grammatical protest.

#itsanoctothorp

English thing would be to say, "Chippy," slowly and with increasing volume...

Here I always thought that was an American thing

This thread had me singing, "Chim, chiminy, Chim, chiminy, Chim, Chim cheroo...I've got a Decimator with one, two, three crew..." All morning. To the tune of that Mary Popins song.

To the tune of that Mary Popins song.

Toot Sweets?

Crappy ipad link.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BGCmVDl46rY

Remember guys, french is the only language where they have academics who decide which words are real words and which are not. Its an elite club of a language, and you're not invited. (I'm aware the Academie Francaise has no legal power but still)

I speak some french, so I do know how to pronounce the good Rear Admiral's name correctly, but I'm going to anglicize it from now on because its funny.

We call him Admiral Chi-Chi, just to irk imperial fluff fanatics

I'm confused. On which planet(s) do they speak French in the Star Wars universe? I'm guessing it's the same planet where periods aren't placed inside quotation marks.

It's an act of grammatical protest. It's absurd that the rules for quotation marks are different from parentheses; I apply the same rules to both. If the punctuation mark is part of the sentence that's being quoted, it goes inside, but otherwise it goes outside.

This reminds me of an argument my wife and I once had about this very topic, not Chippy we think Chippy should stay with Tim & Eric but rather punctuation. It ended with her throwing The Elements of Style at my head... Luckily, it is a small book.

Least you've never had a three day argument trying to convince your wife (who has an engineering degree) that the bit of metal holding the DVD cabinet door open or closed *is* a 'spring' and that a spring doesnt have to be a 'while e cyote and roadrunner' style metal 'boing' coil and in this case is a cantilever spring.

Most ridiculous argument we ever had. She wouldnt back down even when shown websites and books that demonstrated she was wrong because quite simply 'you can't tell my wife *anything*' , unless its what she wants to believe.