Vent - please ignore

The optics of this seem wrong but I need to curate the below comments before I can revert to them.

The one I like is the guy who is known as a "High Powered Team Leader" [HP or KW ? ]. these people dont have meetings with their "Teams", they have "Face Time " ! Since many of them talk through their butt, the meetings must be very interesting indeed.

Roll on the next buzz words !

PS, I forgot about "Touch Base", but I suppose that,s old had by now.

..and don't talk to me about "Workshops" unless they've got lathes and things in them.

"Reach out, come on girl, reach on out for me
Reach out, reach out for me
I'll be there,"

Four Tops 1967

H

This might be me living in sheffield too long... but I have my own linguistic bugbear.

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"Knifemaker" and "Bladesmith"...

NO!, Bad american hobbyists and pretentious blacksmithing youtubers who don't want to make anything big or difficult, Bad!

The term for a person who makes knives and bladed instruments is a "Cutler", and I'll die on that lexical / dictional hill if I have to*.

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*Hope it doesn't come to that though, it's only words!

What makes you think Americans would what a Cutler is? Or Cutlery? Or what a table knife is for other than cutting things up.

They call cutlery 'flatware' over there, don't they?

Rob

My linguistic bête noire is the term "Maker" (which my son uses just to wind me up), which may be even worse than the misuse of "Enormity" (I have even heard it used to describe size on the BBC - perhaps their transmitters are powered by the subterranean rotation of Lord Reith), a word that seems to be on the same trajectory from pejorative to praise that "Sophisticated" has already taken.

Brian G

(This may however just have been replaced as an annoyance by the near impossibility of typing a circumflex with a tenkeyless keyboard that doesn't have a numlock button).

Yep and over here worked in the trade the other stuff they call 'hollware'

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Yes, Harry … I even posted the video

We are evidently “not on the same page”

MichaelG.

I keep running into signs saying "footway closed" but as I am on the pavement I ignore them. No doubt they are preparing us for when they start using the American meaning for the latter.

We could invent a few and see if they catch on. Shoesmith is at least flagged as not in the dictionary, for now. So off to use my toothedcutter to de-unify a resistant material for use in my roundifier before finishing off in my rotary-flatifier.

Going forward

Quantum leap to describe a “big” change ?

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I can never understand why this upsets people

My father was a Scientific Instrument Maker

Some of my ancestors were Candlestick Makers, others were Furniture Makers and Cabinet Makers

What is so offensive about making things ? … it seems an honest occupation.

Your [presumably] preferred term ‘Engineer’ has become so ambiguous that it is almost worthless.

MichaelG.

Glitch when not talking electronics

Up and running when not talking computing

Hi, talking about cutlery, my late bother called them "fighting irons" something that I've adopted some times. (hope that doesn't offend you Jelly)

Regards Nick.

Footway has been valid British English since 1526. That was when Henry VIII delivered proper old-fashioned royal scandals. No messing, off with their heads!

A pavement is only a pavement if it is paved, which the footway outside my house isn't. No such thing as a 'Pavement Closed' sign.

Anyone know the difference between a Bridle Path and a Horseway? Or between tramways, tramroads, tramlines, and railway lines? Oh, and a footway isn't the same as a footpath...

Dave

Don't get me started on “ can I get...?

This discussion seems to be "Unprecedented"

Howard