Two Questions

[sakon76]

First, one of grammar. Is the all-too-frequent error of "your" instead of "you're" a spelling mistake, or a grammar one? I think it counts as both, but Wonderful Husband and I weren't totally sure.

Second, as I work at finishing up Summer Job 9, I am assuming NEST has a few doctors on staff. But presumably they would have military rank. How would one refer to such a person? What rank would they likely hold?

Any insight into either of the above greatly appreciated.

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[riahn kate bailey (from livejournal.com)]

ADMS = Assistant Director Medical Services
DADMS = Deputy Assistant Director of Medical Services
DDGMS = Deputy Director General Medical Services
DDMS = Deputy Director Medical Services
DG = Director General (Medical Services)
DGAMS = Director General Army Medical Services (at War Office, London)
DGMS = Director General Medical Services
DMS = Director Medical Services
EMO = Embarkation Medical Officer
GDMO = General Duties Medical Officer (a junior army doctor attached to a field unit before commencing higher specialist training)
MCD = Military Clinical Director (a senior army Consultant)
MSO = Medical Support Officer (a non-clinical military officer who hold command and staff positions)
MO = Medical Officer
OMO = Orderly Medical Officer
PMO = Principal Medical Officer
RMO = Regimental Medical Officer (normally an army General Practitioner with additional training in Pre-Hospital Emergency Care and Occupational Medicine)
SMO = Senior Medical Officer (normally a senior army General Practitioner)
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[flybystardancer.livejournal.com]

First question... It's most often called a spelling mistake, but I agree that there could be a very good argument for it being a grammar mistake too.

[roseembolism.livejournal.com]

Since the words aren't misspelled, but rather misused, I'd call it a grammar error.

[ajremix.livejournal.com]

In my experience, those in the medical fields are either referred to as 'Doctor', 'Nurse' or 'Corpsman' if they're not referred to by rank- HM1, HMC, etc. Of course I only dealt with a very small field of the Navy. It may be different in Air Force or Army or with surgeons and the like.

I also agree with the above comment- your and you're seem more like grammatical errors rather than spelling, though I could see an argument for both (and i'd probably knee-jerk call it a spelling error myself).

[haamel.livejournal.com]

Time is actually made of geodesics, which are only circular in special regions like near black holes. Mostly, they are (nearly) straight lines. ^_-

[ghilledhu.livejournal.com]

Grammar. If you know the correct usage, you're less likely to type the wrong version. Though that can happen as well.

[haamel.livejournal.com]

That's a hard one. Certainly, "your" <=> "you're" is no mere typo, especially given the nontrivial effort of striking "'" immediately after "o". If one believes that the speaker thinks of the contraction of "you are" as a single word, then substituting that word's spelling with that of another single word would be a bona-fide misspelling. If on the other they have accidentally used a possessive where they wanted a pronoun-verb contraction (or vice versa), that is a grammar error which supersedes spelling concerns.

I believe my dad, a full MD commissioned offer, was a Lt. Cmdr. by the time he departed the Navy.

[dragondancer515.livejournal.com]

1) My vote is that it's both, personally.

2) Depends on the rank of the individual and also on who is addressing him/her. *ducks out really quick to ask Mom - since Dad's in Cleveland right now - for specifics* Yes, the military branches have their own doctors. When someone joins the military, s/he might already be a doctor or whatever other profession, or might be educated /into/ that profession as part of their service, like my dad became a bio-med tech (repairman for any and all medical machinery from infant incubators to x-ray equipment) while he was in the Air Force. So the doctor will rise through the ranks like any other person, and what his rank is depends on what he's reached. It'd also depend on the /position/ he or she holds - if they're a director in a certain department, they might be "Captain So-and-so, Director of Medical Services" or just "Director So-and-so" (especially to a civilian). As for what he's /called/ when being talked about or directly addressed, again depends on who's addressing him/her. Another military person would call them by their rank - that's a military requirement. A civilian, OTOH, wouldn't be expected to know how to read insignia to know the doctor's rank, so s/he'd just call them "Dr. So-and-so". The Autobots might or might not use rank or call him/her Doctor, depending on the 'Bot. Like for instance, Prime would have probably made it a point to learn the humans' ranking system so he could address someone properly, whereas say Sideswipe couldn't give less of a shit.

...*hopes all that made sense* 9,9

[sakon76.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Yes, that made sense, and since it's Sam referring to the doctor in question, I'll default to him just going with "doctor." Thank you very much!

[dragondancer515.livejournal.com]

YAY Glad I could help! 8D