Gentlemen, please. Ladies, too. Can I have a minute of your time?

The words, "plan" and "plane" have different meanings. They are not interchangeable.

To plan something, is to prepare for a future event.

In our sailboarding context, to plane means to glide, or soar. Derivations of "plane" include "aeroplane", and "aquaplane". In
the 1930's, the Hudson Motor Car Company sold a model called a Terraplane; presumably, it could glide over the Earth.

The present participles of plan and plane are "planning" and "planing", respectively. Present participles are the "ing" words.

So, why mention this? Well, I seem to be reading about a lot of sailboards that are planning. Planning what, I ask? As inanimate objects, I don't think that sailboards are capable of planning anything. Or, at least, that's my experience. But, I might be wrong.

Consider some extracts from recent Seabreeze posts, all from different authors.

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poster A said..
. . . At the lower ends, it really depends on your ability to get a board planning in marginal conditions, but . . .

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Poster B said..
. . . This can be done on any style of board with footstraps in planning conditions. If you can jump it . . .

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Poster C said..
. . . I was fully planning so would of (sic) ended really bad (sic) if my 40cm fin had hit him!

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Poster D said..
. . . Nobody wants to sails (sic) non-planning, nobody. the designers of this "convertible" are trying to rid of this non planning sailing which is awesome . . .

(I didn't understand any of that)

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Poster E said..
. . . Several sailors, one Kite and one W/S continually overtook me fully planning up wind . . .

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Poster F said..
. . . if a break is crowded, it's the first who is planning on a swell outside the break . . .

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Poster G said..
. . . in less than perfect conditions, fast, smooth gybing, early planning and a reasonable amount of hidden volume . . .

(and, as a last example; I think the point has been made)

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Poster H said ..
. . . Thats (sic) a massive board and you wont (sic) get planning better on anything else! . . .

Oh, well, I suppose it could be worse. Here's something from the kite forum:-

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anonymous kiter said ..
. . . no slap or facespray in the chop. Plains really early and adds a good 5+ knots to any kites (sic) low end. . . .

Good grief!!!

Don't get me started on batterns....

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Reflex Films said..
Don't get me started on batterns....

Or jibing...

Bloody ozzies and there spelling!

So do 3 Battern wave sails get planning slower or is their not to much difference?

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Bristol said..

The present participles of plan and plane are "planning" and "planing", respectively. Present participles are the "ing" words.

I may be corrected, but I think these "ing" words are the "gerund" rather than present participle. I do however appreciate the principle (not principal) or your post.

A bit of edumacation never hurt nobody.

Clarence

I'm off too cheque the sales for sail.

Seriusly...

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clarence said..

Bristol said..

The present participles of plan and plane are "planning" and "planing", respectively. Present participles are the "ing" words.

I may be corrected, but I think these "ing" words are the "gerund" rather than present participle. I do however appreciate the principle (not principal) or your post.

A bit of edumacation never hurt nobody.

Clarence

Geralds are so confusing!

www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/participles-and-gerunds

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william said..
So do 3 Battern wave sails get planning slower or is their not to much difference?

I brought some 3 battern sale's and they do get you're bored planning earlier but if mooslim's have they're way shakira law will stop that.

I just thought it depended on what shcool went to?

Seriously though, why is phonetic spelt with a silent P????

Plain English, it can be a bugg@r to grasp!

Are those examples misspelled or misspelt?

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Waterloo said..

Plain English, it can be a bugg@r to grasp!

Don't you mean, plane English?

its plain simple ,he was planning to get planing

Guilty.

truble macking mouch cense off annie ov this.

So do I assume that I'm not the only person in the world who puts apostrophes in SMS messages?

(hmm- had to look-up the plural of "apostrophe")

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william said..
So do 3 Battern wave sails get planning slower or is their not to much difference?

know defrence

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MikeyS said...
So do I assume that I'm not the only person in the world who puts apostrophes in SMS messages?

(hmm- had to look-up the plural of "apostrophe")

At least you didn't call them apostrophe's!

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mathew said..

william said..
So do 3 Battern wave sails get planning slower or is their not to much difference?

know defrence

tar

to many words and engrish to comprehend ...I'm just gunna my boreds and go for a sale

Why does my family larf wen i want to go to jelton or cross the ralway (geraldton and railway)? Thats wat we say in straya. Planing is Not helped by autocomplete or spell check on your phone, but is helped by planning to use a big sail with many battens. Made it!

Planning/ planing. Jybing/jibing. Don't care. We understand. Just don't give me ****e like. "Planning the implementation of a directional modality reset (jibe) given a state of suboptimal surface continuities (chop) necessitates enhanced learnings in directional orientation (good balance)".

One of the reasons I love the windsurfing community is the lack of judgement of others who participate in this diverse recreational endeavour. I'm not sure if you are being light hearted about your difficulty in reading/comprehending/understanding a simple grammatical error but it's not hard for the reader to "autocorrect" this while reading. In the context of windsurfing it's pretty obvious (even to someone who is so bored reading windsurfing forums that they have to nit pick spelling and grammatical errors) what the writer is trying to convey.

For whatever reason some people didn't have the privilege of a decent State education, let alone a Grammar School education. They may not even be aware of the mistake.

Consider also most computers and devices "autocorrect" and spellcheck as you write. The word "Planning" would generally be used far more frequently than "Planing". It makes sense that many of these grammatical errors are as a result of this.

If you are so bored that you need to vent on this (obviously I am) I have intentionally left several errors in this post. Have fun finding them (should fill your day).

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Piv said..
Why does my family larf wen i want to go to jelton or cross the ralway (geraldton and railway)? Thats wat we say in straya. Planing is Not helped by autocomplete or spell check on your phone, but is helped by planning to use a big sail with many battens. Made it!

Isn't it amazing.. we spend so much time being taught English and grammar and yet we can read this? Why all the education..

Clarence,

I like your picture of "Scuffy the Tugboat". That takes me way back to my early childhood. I loved that story. My mom used to read it to me all the time. That's a classic lil golden book!!

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musorianin said..
Planning/ planing. Jybing/jibing. Don't care. We understand. Just don't give me ****e like. "Planning the implementation of a directional modality reset (jibe) given a state of suboptimal surface continuities (chop) necessitates enhanced learnings in directional orientation (good balance)".

...gybe!!! (with a 'g')

(and gaol)

This calls for my favorite Spell checker poem - been a while since I posted it.

Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.

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musorianin said..
... "Planning the implementation of a directional modality reset (jibe) given a state of suboptimal surface continuities (chop) necessitates enhanced learnings in directional orientation (good balance)".

A clever melange of mustelidian speech elements, nicely obtuse, but nothing compares with Deepak Chopra. He is literally awesome.

wisdomofchopra.com/

me was homee shooeld at mts issa statee hi whatsths speeling plaanng wong