On behalf of the bat I am honored!That is just guano loco!
A new word
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I looked up preventative thinking it odd that some don't care for the word & preventive is the alternative.
I guess I lived in a different environment where "preventative" was very much used. I pulled an over 20 year hitch in industrial maintenance & the spelling is used almost exclusively, & seen in most if not all service manuals.
Personally I could care less of however its spelled. As long as it's close it get's the point across for me. Just find it strange to see this word another way when I've read/said it one way probably >10,000 times.
I guess I lived in a different environment where "preventative" was very much used. I pulled an over 20 year hitch in industrial maintenance & the spelling is used almost exclusively, & seen in most if not all service manuals.
Personally I could care less of however its spelled. As long as it's close it get's the point across for me. Just find it strange to see this word another way when I've read/said it one way probably >10,000 times.
I worked as a tech writer for a couple decades, and worked on many Preventive Maintenance manuals.
I can kind of tolerate "preventative" as a noun, as in "Such and such medicine has been been shown to be an effective preventative." But it bangs on my ear when used as an adjective.
But then I'm a word guy. I made my living with words one way or the other my whole career. I take professional pride in the correct usage of words.
Okay, I told TLMS (a native Nicaraguan) about your new word (mierdador for plumber). She thought it was pretty funny. But she actually liked my definition for it better (a notorious slinger of BS). I think it's gonna be used here around the Snakepit from now on.FABULOUS! I'm gonna teach that one to The Lovely Mrs. Snake.
Or maybe the definition could be someone who is a notorious slinger of BS!
She liked cacador for plumber, too.
She tells me the actual Spanish word for plumber is fontanero/a.
I ran the words cacador and mierdador past my buddy Luis here at work and he got a good laugh.
There are a lot of words out there that are rarely used. So when we hear them we question if they are actually real words. I think what is more interesting is that once a word like physicality is heard. So many people jump on the band wagon and start using it. It seems like they believe that if someone has to look up a word they use in the dictionary. It makes them look a step above everyone else. I remember hearing the word physicality for the first time on Dancing with the stars years ago. Now it is a word you can’t go a day without hearing someone say it. Maybe I’m just getting old and don’t like change.
caryc
Hawkeye
You mean your physicality is lessening?
Menticality too! Yout' is a distant memory and I ask the grey bearded man in the mirror what happenedYou mean your physicality is lessening?
I watched part of one of these new fangled webinars a couple months ago trying to figure out if a software program for my drone would do what I wanted and in the first 10 minutes.. the folks putting this thing on came jump with:
Digital Twins. (this is a digital drawing of a picture of something by the way)
Vertical Assets (this is a tower)
and the best was: " Intelligent replicas of reality".... (this is a digital drawing of a tower or such)
Digital Twins. (this is a digital drawing of a picture of something by the way)
Vertical Assets (this is a tower)
and the best was: " Intelligent replicas of reality".... (this is a digital drawing of a tower or such)
caryc
Hawkeye
You totally lost me.
That was my point.. these 'highly intelligent' folks who design the drones were explaining how to use them to inspect towers and I was totally lost because they kept using these terms that I presume they had 'invented' for their specific field.
I guess one way to look at it is I did not understand the language. It happens all the time in my business... I speak chimney. Often a chimney sweep will go to someone's home and start explaining the repairs that need to be done to the chimney and they will use terms the the average home owner doesn't understand.
I guess one way to look at it is I did not understand the language. It happens all the time in my business... I speak chimney. Often a chimney sweep will go to someone's home and start explaining the repairs that need to be done to the chimney and they will use terms the the average home owner doesn't understand.
It's not really quantitative it's more of a state. It can change. My Physicality 40 years ago Rock Climbing and Motorcycle Racing now it's Chair Rocking and Stuff Riding.You mean your physicality is lessening?
Physicality isn't a word most would use. It's features would be tall, short, fit, muscular, fat etc and possibly an overall assessment of fitness for a given task.
To mix old and new, I'd say, "...your physicality is attenuating."You mean your physicality is lessening?
Of course, unnecessarily complicated language has been around for a long time.
From my GI days, I recall a DI accusing me of, "...urinating in the prevailing westerlies."
While "...do what I say, not what I do," morphed into, "...homo sapiens who reside is structures of super-headed silicon should not propel objects constructed of basalt."
From my GI days, I recall a DI accusing me of, "...urinating in the prevailing westerlies."
While "...do what I say, not what I do," morphed into, "...homo sapiens who reside is structures of super-headed silicon should not propel objects constructed of basalt."
I'm more Gravitationally Enhanced than I used to be.
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My youngest called mayonnaise “hamaise”
One time he was playing at a playground. He said the other boys said he was “really tiny”. He mis heard them say he was retarded.
Like him, I struggled with talking until I learned to read. Being mostly deaf. I never heard words right. Once I could spell them I could pronounce them.
I think I was 10 before I realized it was penis not peanut. I thought it was the same word. So I’m not likely to make fun of other people’s shortcomings. Plus I’m portly myself. I’m probably over sensitive to it.
My apologies to @Mobuck
One time he was playing at a playground. He said the other boys said he was “really tiny”. He mis heard them say he was retarded.
Like him, I struggled with talking until I learned to read. Being mostly deaf. I never heard words right. Once I could spell them I could pronounce them.
I think I was 10 before I realized it was penis not peanut. I thought it was the same word. So I’m not likely to make fun of other people’s shortcomings. Plus I’m portly myself. I’m probably over sensitive to it.
My apologies to @Mobuck
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To paraphrase Slim Pickens in Blazing Saddles... "Golly Mr. Baseball! You use yore tongue perrtier than a twenty dollar hore" !!! (Couldn't resist)
