6959 Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 From the workshop: - Using 'G-cramps' to 'cramp' things together, rather then clamp them. - Cutting a 'slither' rather than a sliver. - Using a 'fillet' of solder in a joint rather than fill it with solder. David G-cramp is used for woodwork G-clamp is used in engineering source Uncle Tom Godfrey, CEGB training school, East yelland, 1960. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spikey Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 Talking of doors ... Spotted last week on a side door of an office block in Tunbridge Wells which is surrounded by scaffolding, a notice reading "TEMPORARY ACCESSIBLE ACCESS" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew F Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 A big drawn out "Amaaazing!" is used to describe things that range from mediocre to crushingly banal. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcm@gwr Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 My boss has recently started using the phrase "from the get go" (...and I really don't care if it should be hyphenated or not), in otherwise normal conversations. Does anyone know how this can be stopped with minimal damage to: a) My work environment b) My boss c) My career d) My health (if I try to maintain outward calm) Any help would be appreciated. Say to him,(in the style used on foreign holidays, while attempting to converse with the locals)....................... "Do you speak English!" 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
laurenceb Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 One of our local rags had the headline "Carnage in carpark". Death toll - nill, it was just that people were stuck in the carpark because of badly designed traffic lights. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauliebanger Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 Anyone else noticed the proliferation the so called 'Multi-Purpose Bridge'? How many purposes can any particular bridge have? And what about that old magazine favourite 'Free Gift'? It has the distinction of being both a tautology and a falsehood. Best regards, Paul 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ikks Posted April 17, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 17, 2018 So different to us men.... Thank goodness!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ikks Posted April 17, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 17, 2018 We need some blue sky thinking on this. Agree.........where's the crap button!!!!!!!!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Marlin Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 For a while, in order to stamp out the expression, I replaced instances of 'going forwards' in various documents with 'ambling crabwise'.It worked. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
62613 Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 Anyone else noticed the proliferation the so called 'Multi-Purpose Bridge'? How many purposes can any particular bridge have? And what about that old magazine favourite 'Free Gift'? It has the distinction of being both a tautology and a falsehood. Best regards, Paul We had a box of J-cloths in the E.R. of a ship I sailed on too many years ago to remember. The box proclaimed that its contents had '1001 uses'; the other E/C with me pointed out that in fact they only had two; wiping up and cleaning stuff; although they made great headbands for keeping sweat out of your eyes! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BoD Posted April 17, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 17, 2018 I am confused (easily, I know) when someone refers to 'strict guidelines'. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jjb1970 Posted April 17, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 17, 2018 I is confused now and can't not figure oot whether we agreeded that the meaning of words changes so we shouldn't not nah mock idiots or weather we should laugh at the sort of half wits who dive'knackered wot words mean. Know wot I mean, like? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauliebanger Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 I is confused now and can't not figure oot whether we agreeded that the meaning of words changes so we shouldn't not nah mock idiots or weather we should laugh at the sort of half wits who dive'knackered wot words mean. Know wot I mean, like? I know what you mean, but I do not like. Beat regards Paul 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
34theletterbetweenB&D Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 My boss has recently started using the phrase "from the get go" ... There used to be a postard available featuring a beautiful tropical island, emblazoned 'From Thegetgo'. On the reverse it had the usual sort of explanatory caption to the effect of 'On Thegetgo we make Manana look like express delivery'. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Hughes Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 There used to be a postard available featuring a beautiful tropical island, emblazoned 'From Thegetgo'. On the reverse it had the usual sort of explanatory caption to the effect of 'On Thegetgo we make Manana look like express delivery'. An Irish Government Minister a few years back is supposed to have remarked that the Irish language had no word which conveyed the same sense of urgency as mañana. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
E3109 Posted April 21, 2018 Share Posted April 21, 2018 The US habit of altering verbs to nouns, such as 'Foul Point' rather than 'Fouling Point'. Gets my goat that, mind you the term 'sparking plug' sounds rather quaint, even to my ears. Still, it could be worse. And it is. 'Da Yoof' seem to be replacing the word 'feelings' with 'feels'. FEELS, ffs! Thanks a lot, Katy Perry and any number of talentless, caterwauling no-marks who got lucky. PS.... '#1' in lieu of 'No1'. I fear we're fighting a losing battle here. Or maybe that should be 'a lose battle'. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted April 22, 2018 Share Posted April 22, 2018 (edited) The US habit of altering verbs to nouns, such as 'Foul Point' rather than 'Fouling Point'. Wot's a 'Foul Point'? This is not in the US Lexicon, at least as far as I know, nor is 'Fouling Point'. But in British Railway usage "trap point" is OK? "Foul" itself is an interesting word. I've seen it as an adjective, verb and noun. Adjective: "The weather was foul yesterday." "That's a foul smell." Noun: "The referee decided the aggressive tackle was a foul and held up the yellow card." Verb: "The loose gear wheel fouled the pinion and the mechanism seized." None of these are Americanisms. Edited April 22, 2018 by Ozexpatriate Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Posted April 22, 2018 Share Posted April 22, 2018 My boss has recently started using the phrase "from the get go" (...and I really don't care if it should be hyphenated or not), in otherwise normal conversations. Does anyone know how this can be stopped with minimal damage to: a) My work environment b) My boss c) My career d) My health (if I try to maintain outward calm) Any help would be appreciated. Fight fire with fire, get hold of a text on incomprehensible Yankee slang and start using it wherever and whenever opportunity presents itself... This should put you in a position to make a deal with your boss.. On the other hand... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
E3109 Posted April 22, 2018 Share Posted April 22, 2018 Wot's a 'Foul Point'? This is not in the US Lexicon, at least as far as I know, nor is 'Fouling Point'. But in British Railway usage "trap point" is OK? "Foul" itself is an interesting word. I've seen it as an adjective, verb and noun. Adjective: "The weather was foul yesterday." "That's a foul smell." Noun: "The referee decided the aggressive tackle was a foul and held up the yellow card." Verb: "The loose gear wheel fouled the pinion and the mechanism seized." None of these are Americanisms. The clipped form of grammar is the Americanism I was referring to, nothing to do with traps as such, the word 'point' in this phrase means 'position' rather than 'turnout'. As in, the fouling point is the point at which a train would be foul of an adjacent line. Or would it be fouling? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockershovel Posted April 22, 2018 Share Posted April 22, 2018 (edited) From the workshop: - Using 'G-cramps' to 'cramp' things together, rather then clamp them. - Cutting a 'slither' rather than a sliver. - Using a 'fillet' of solder in a joint rather than fill it with solder. David A fillet of solder, in context, is a technical term relating to the practice of applying solder (or weld) in a controlled, regular line or infill of defined dimensions. You might well apply a fillet of solder in making up a brass loco kit, but in welding specifications the “fillet” is the capping layer which gives a regular finish to the weld, and aids in shedding water or other contaminants Edited April 22, 2018 by rockershovel Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacific231G Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 (edited) Talking of doors ... Spotted last week on a side door of an office block in Tunbridge Wells which is surrounded by scaffolding, a notice reading "TEMPORARY ACCESSIBLE ACCESS" Though this seems like a nonsensical tautology, accessible in this context probably means "accessible to wheelchair users and others unable to use steps". Accessible has simply become a more concise way of saying that just as "accessible toilet" doesn't mean that the architect has finally discovered the importance of providing doors. The alternative "disabled access" is less sensitive to those who require it, wouldn't include pushchairs and in any case could imply that access is blocked. I could well see an overseas visitor assuming that a "disabled toilet" is out of use. In this case "Temporary accessible entrance" might have been more elegant but appropriate abbreviation on signs is hardly new. "All tickets must be shewn" (or shown on lesser railways) clearly didn't mean that passengers had to produce their theatre, tram, and any dry cleaning tickets as well as their railway tickets and "passengers must not cross the tracks" doesn't imply a lifetime to be spent on the wrong side of them. One apparently growing usage that does irritate me is the dropping of the gerund as in "The British Swim Team", or "Go Sky Dive" (seen recently at Old Sarum Aerodrome along with "Go Fly" for the flying school there) Edited April 26, 2018 by Pacific231G 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Bernard Lamb Posted April 26, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 26, 2018 A fillet of solder, in context, is a technical term relating to the practice of applying solder (or weld) in a controlled, regular line or infill of defined dimensions. You might well apply a fillet of solder in making up a brass loco kit, but in welding specifications the “fillet” is the capping layer which gives a regular finish to the weld, and aids in shedding water or other contaminants Not quite going by the way the word was used amongst welders that I knew. A fillet weld was a term applied to the whole weld of a particular type and not just to the capping layer. It was usually used when two pieces of metal were welded together at around the 90 degree angle and would be further defined by leg length and throat thickness. A butt weld was the term used for welding two pieces of metal side by side. This would normally entail them having a v ground out where the weld was to go and would be completed with a capping weld. Bernard Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 A fillet weld was a term applied ... when two pieces of metal were welded together at around the 90 degree angle ... A butt weld was the term used for welding two pieces of metal side by side. ... That too is my understanding. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jjb1970 Posted April 26, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 26, 2018 I used to write class rules and the society I worked for had a house style which was almost like a Victorian dialect and which loved double negatives. One day I was asked to review a rule change proposal which used a triple negative, it was almost unreadable. I am not a fan of double negatives but a triple negative was absurd. Sent it back with an instruction to have another go. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Classsix T Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 A triple negative?! Do share jjb, I don't think I've ever been exposed to one! Sorry, I don't never think I've been exposed to one. Ow, my head! C6T. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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