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The NY Times had an very nice graphic showing how the U.S.S. Intrepid aircraft carrier would be moved from Pier 86 off the West Side in Manhattan, towed down the Hudson, and then docked in Bayonne for repairs. Sadly, the Intrepid's move was canceled because the six tugboats ("combined 21,790 horsepower") can't move the huge vessel!
Planners had selected today for the move, because it's the highest tide of the year, but high tide had nothing on 24 years of sitting in the Hudson. We imagine this is the Intrepid's silent protest about leaving the Big Apple.
There's video on CNN
Photograph of tugboats trying to pull the Intrepid by Jason DeCrow/AP
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Re: the NYT graphic. What's with "fo'c'sle"? Did the graphic artists have a Klingon fixation? Stop trying to be fancy and just use the original and proper spelling: forecastle. Yes, you're not supposed to pronounce it four-castle, but most people won't know how to pronounce fo'c'sle either. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. Looking at the two graphic designers credited, they each use ligatures or diacriticals in their names. Just have to make things more difficult in the name of ethnic "accuracy." Not to sound like an ugly American, but in this country, don't expect me to write or type your name the non-standard way you want me to. 26 letters plus commas, periods and hyphens are all I use, period. That goes for Jennifer 8. Lee, too.
No one cares Brightliner.
I think they knew this would happen and the always publicity hungry Intrepid people saw a way to make the story get more attention from the media.
Brightliner:
graphic designers, art directors and the creative-like are typically not responsible for copy content or spelling. They're designers, it's in the title. Leave it at that.
If you're having issues with spelling and or copy content, your comments would be better suited for the NYT letters to the editor, not a gothamist.com "comments" diatribe.
Here's a quick link to NYT opinions for your grievances: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/opinion/index.html
I look forward to reading your published NYT piece. Godspeed.
How about instead of either fo'c'sle or forecastle, we all agree just to call that part of a ship "Steve"?
Even the mud of the Hudson knows, given the electorate's mood, this is the wrong day to be glorifying militarism.
the best comment of the day:
"The Intrepid stands for everything we believe in ... our freedom and our values," Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said at the sendoff ceremony before the tugs began their work."
our values are stuck in the mud!
Go America!!
the real problem is that the tugboats hate freedom.
Poor Hillary, dumber than Hudson mud.
Brightliner:
This, from the OED (2nd ed., 1989), proves you wrong: "Also written fo'c'sle, after sailors' pronunc."
pickles,
I'm not wrong. I was well aware the spelling existed. But "fo'c'sle" is not the original and proper spelling as I noted. It's an acceptable spelling, but only for the pretentious landlubbers trying to act like they're sailors. It's a waterlogged variation of l33t speak. Go ahead. Take "fo'c'sle" to anyone on the street and ask them to pronounce it. Is that fo-see-slee? Fockslee? Fuh-see-sull? If people can't pronounce it or even spell it, then what's the point? At least they can say forecastle, even if it's an incorrect pronunciation, and (here's the point again) that's how it was ORIGINALLY spelled.
Kojak,
Yeah, nobody seems to care about doing anything right anymore. And everyone wonders why the world is so fu'c'ked up.
pickles,
I'm not wrong. I was well aware the spelling existed. But "fo'c'sle" is not the original and proper spelling as I noted. It's an acceptable spelling, but only for the pretentious landlubbers trying to act like they're sailors. It's a waterlogged variation of l33t speak. Go ahead. Take "fo'c'sle" to anyone on the street and ask them to pronounce it. Is that fo-see-slee? Fockslee? Fuh-see-sull? If people can't pronounce it or even spell it, then what's the point? At least they can say forecastle, even if it's an incorrect pronunciation, and (here's the point again) that's how it was ORIGINALLY spelled.
Bob,
That'd be news to the graphic designers I've worked with. If something is in a graphic, they're responsible for it, period. Even if it came from someone else, they can't just say it's someone else's misspelling.
Kojak,
Yeah, nobody seems to care about doing anything right anymore. And everyone wonders why the world is so fu'c'ked up.
Brightliner we all get it your knowlegable in the field of "Boating" and all that other mess .{You figure out the terminology) . The bottom line here is , The reason they couldn't tow the Intrepid out of it's port is because there is just to much shit on the riverbed . Let's be real about it, Everytime we flush a portion of that shit goes into the river ! Over the years it begins to pile-up . Guess that's another bill for the city to get stuck with .
"Shitty River"