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Author Message Doug Brinley AIA CSI CDT CCS Senior Member Username: dbrinley Post Number: 114 Registered: 12-2002 Posted on Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 12:00 pm:    Stunk, stank or stinked? Nathan Woods, CCCA Senior Member Username: nwoods Post Number: 13 Registered: 08-2005 Posted on Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 12:04 pm:    Depends... "It Stunk", "It was mighty Stank", alternate: "It Stank to high Heaven!" George A. Everding, AIA, CSI, CCS, CCCA Senior Member Username: geverding Post Number: 64 Registered: 11-2004 Posted on Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 12:29 pm:    Present: Stink Past: Stank or Stunk Past Participle: Stunk One advantage of online communications...you can't receive a scented email...yet. Brett M. Wilbur CSI, CDT, AIA Senior Member Username: brett Post Number: 66 Registered: 12-2004 Posted on Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 12:37 pm:    Does that mean its: Think Thank, and Thunk? or is it thinked? Nope, its thought, I think. Thanks. Alright, so that joke went thunk! David Axt, AIA, CCS, CSI Senior Member Username: david_axt Post Number: 541 Registered: 03-2002 Posted on Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 01:56 pm:    Drink Drank Drunk Wayne Yancey Senior Member Username: wyancey Post Number: 66 Registered: 05-2005 Posted on Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 04:08 pm:    A skunk sat on a stump, The skunk thunk the stump stunk, The stump thunk the skunk stunk How many 'Ss' are in that? Lynn Javoroski Senior Member Username: lynn_javoroski Post Number: 240 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 04:12 pm:    none Anne Whitacre, CCS CSI Senior Member Username: awhitacre Post Number: 243 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 04:14 pm:    then again, there is skink skank skunk... David Axt, AIA, CCS, CSI Senior Member Username: david_axt Post Number: 542 Registered: 03-2002 Posted on Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 07:18 pm:    Doug, Hedor Apesto' Apestaron' Doug Brinley AIA CSI CDT CCS Senior Member Username: dbrinley Post Number: 115 Registered: 12-2002 Posted on Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 07:36 pm:    Your spanish is not my french, Monsieur Axt. Buona sera! David Axt, AIA, CCS, CSI Senior Member Username: david_axt Post Number: 543 Registered: 03-2002 Posted on Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 08:21 pm:    Don't worry Doug. In 20 years specifications will be written in Spanish. Mark my words. (marque mis palabras.) J. Peter Jordan Senior Member Username: jpjordan Post Number: 125 Registered: 05-2004 Posted on Thursday, September 15, 2005 - 09:20 am:    expert witness deposition, President's column or field report? David Axt, AIA, CCS, CSI Senior Member Username: david_axt Post Number: 544 Registered: 03-2002 Posted on Thursday, September 15, 2005 - 01:46 pm:    Peter, This is my personal belief and safe bet. Just look at the statistics. Hispanics are the fastest growing population in the US. I read a report that said that one in 7 people in the US are Hispanic. Look at any technical bookstore and you will see Spanish/English construction dictionaries and several books translated in Spanish. Heck, our very own CSI is working on a Spanish Masterformat 2004! Doug Brinley AIA CSI CDT CCS Senior Member Username: dbrinley Post Number: 120 Registered: 12-2002 Posted on Thursday, September 15, 2005 - 01:57 pm:    Our LA projects were entirely bilingual. Managers spoke and wrote english (kinda -ha). Foremen were bilingual and smarter than the managers. Labor 100% spanish-speaking. Most productive team of people I've seen anywhere; excellent craftsmanship. The excellent specs (I was not a spec writer at the time :-> ) got as far as the fax machine (sent to subs blitzkreig-like), then were relegated to the waste paper basket. Maybe two copies of specs at the job; $15M project; 4 months. Lots of pointing and doodles. In short - you're right. It's an invasion. We're better for it.