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I should start off by pointing out that I obsess sometimes. This one has been bugging me for years.

Hobbiest would mean that you are the most hobby, as in earliest means that you are the one who is most early.

() A suffix used to form the superlative of adjectives and adverbs; as, smoothest; earl(y)iest.

The proper spelling is "hobbyist" as in "ist" meaning one who does or one who is skilled in or occupied with.


	1. a person who does, makes, or practices (the thing specified): words so formed correspond to verbs ending in -ize or nouns ending in -ism moralist, satirist
	2. a person skilled in or occupied with;So saying you are a hobbyist is accurate; saying you are hobbiest is just arrogant. ;')


OK, got that bit of nonsense off my chest.

Steve Greenfield

LOL!  Steve,  I have given up on trying to understand the English language, spelling or 
otherwise.  During the past twenty years or so I have been working mostly with people 
with English as their second language.  Trying to explain to them spelling and such is 
enough to drive a person crazy.  Try to explain to a Polish person how to polish something  
using the written words in English - makes for a lot of laughs. 

Or such phrases, I too went to two different stores to get two bottles of wine...

Chris - a guy with too many hobbies,does that make me a hobbiest or a hobbyist?









--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Steve Greenfield <alienrelics@...> wrote:
>
> I should start off by pointing out that I obsess sometimes. This one has been bugging 
me for years.
> 
> Hobbiest would mean that you are the most hobby, as in earliest means that you are the 
one who is most early.
> 
> () A suffix used to form the superlative of adjectives and adverbs; as, smoothest; 
earl(y)iest.
> 
> The proper spelling is "hobbyist" as in "ist" meaning one who does or one who is skilled 
in or occupied with.
> 
> 
> 	1. a person who does, makes, or practices (the thing specified): words so formed 
correspond to verbs ending in -ize or nouns ending in -ism moralist, satirist
> 	2. a person skilled in or occupied with;So saying you are a hobbyist is accurate; 
saying you are hobbiest is just arrogant. ;')

> 
> 
> OK, got that bit of nonsense off my chest.
> 
> Steve Greenfield
>

>
> OK, got that bit of nonsense off my chest.
>
> Steve Greenfield


but would you be a trekkie or a trekker.....

On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:06:09 +0100, you wrote:

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>> OK, got that bit of nonsense off my chest.
>>
>> Steve Greenfield
>
>
>but would you be a trekkie or a trekker.....

There's actually a difference....

Harvey

2008/10/24 Harvey White <madyn@...>:
> On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:06:09 +0100, you wrote:
>
>>>
>>> OK, got that bit of nonsense off my chest.
>>>
>>> Steve Greenfield
>>
>>
>>but would you be a trekkie or a trekker.....
>
> There's actually a difference....

Actually yes, and its a age/nationality thing, growing up in the uk
and watching tos, yes thats a real descriptive term, i'm a
trekkie.........

with the advent of tng and the net and US acronyms trekker was born,
but i dont like the newer term.

anyhow too OT!