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jeff hammond

Funny. I sometimes hear "lathe" used as a verb in shops … but I have never before heard "bandsaw" used that way. Maybe it is a regional thing?

nah.. not regional.. i think it's fair to say the vast majority of tradespeople worldwide just make up words as they see fit..

shura

just by the way,

we germs have some funny terms in literary language. For example in the army a wheelbarrow is called "einachsiger Dreiseitenkipper" which could translate to "mono axial three side tipper". No idea if this sounds funny in english, but every time i come across a barrow I can't help it.

sorry for off topic

hellnbak

I hurt myself trying to say that. You will be hearing from my attorney.

livemixer

@unknownuser said:

nah.. not regional.. i think it's fair to say the vast majority of tradespeople worldwide just make up words as they see fit..

It is also fair to say that every word was made up by somebody sometime. The ones that become popular enough get put in dictionaries so people like me can post annoying references to them when someone claims they aren't real words.

jeff hammond

@livemixer said:

It is also fair to say that every word was made up by somebody sometime. The ones that become popular enough get put in dictionaries so people like me can post annoying references to them when someone claims they aren't real words.

true..
fairly recently, the word 'meh' has made it into the dictionary.. meh..

then there's this one:

google |ˈgo͞ogəl|
verb [ with obj. ] informal
search for information about (someone or something) on the Internet, typically using the search engine Google:I recently googled my 7th grade teacher and found his current e-mail address| [ no obj. ] : she spent the afternoon googling aimlessly.

oh.. and then there's ain't..
you know how many people in the past have told me that's not a word..

pbacot

It ain't a word.

jeff hammond

@pbacot said:

It ain't a word.

you're probably right but i don't care
sometimes it's the exact right word to use..

[edit]
mac dictionary is giving me this:

ain't |ānt| informal
contraction

am not; are not; is not: if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

[originally representing London dialect.]
• has not; have not: they ain't got nothing to say.
[from dialect hain't .]

usage: The use of ain't was widespread in the 18th century and is still perfectly normal in many dialects and informal contexts in both North America and Britain. Today, however, it does not form part of standard English and should not be used in formal contexts.

i've never owned a suit&tie my entire life so i should be a-ok

[[and even more off topic ..i'm really liking this 3finger tap gesture in mountain lion.. tap on a word and the dictionary/thesaurus/wiki pops up ]]

jpalm32

Nice rust texture! Looks good!

livemixer

@unknownuser said:

[[and even more off topic ..i'm really liking this 3finger tap gesture in mountain lion.. tap on a word and the dictionary/thesaurus/wiki pops up ]]

Speaking of the OS X dictionary/thesaurus, if it weren't for the inline spell-checker that underlines words not in it in red as I type & offers corrections if I right-click on them, my posts would be full of misspellings & typos, & I would be revealed as the "spelling-impaired" person I really am.

Curious fact: the 3rd party software Apple uses to power its own user support forums includes a snippet of Javascript code that turns off the OS X in-line spell-checker in the reply editor! There are some things I don't like about the phpBB software that runs this forum but I am very happy it doesn't do that!

pbacot

Jeff: "mac dictionary is giving me this:

ain't |ānt| informal
contraction"

I was just kidding Jeff (by using it as a word). I think Twain pretty well cemented it into the language. It just ain't proper to use with real folks.