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Can Engineers Speak English? Technology is a blessing, but can we please avoid 'technobabble'?
FrontPage Mag ^ | 01/05/2016 | Thomas Sowell

Posted on 01/05/2016 9:03:27 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: equaviator

If they don’t their stuff does not work right.

I am a systems engineer. I spend most of my time using very precise language to describe what a system needs to do. If I get it wrong the system does not work right. Vague language is the devil!


41 posted on 01/05/2016 10:59:50 AM PST by TalonDJ
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To: TalonDJ

Your problem is that you don’t have a phone. You have a tablet (probably a very small one) that can make phone calls (depending on the model, probably not nearly as well as a real phone).

Go find a phone, and get back to me.


42 posted on 01/05/2016 11:09:35 AM PST by PAR35
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To: SeekAndFind

I have a co-worker that says quadrant when pointing out something on a computer monitor. “In the upper right quadrant”.....
Some think they are smart by speaking like this when they are not.
Just gibberish to most people.


43 posted on 01/05/2016 12:56:30 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: TalonDJ

#QualityMatters


44 posted on 01/05/2016 1:11:09 PM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Nice!


45 posted on 01/05/2016 2:40:02 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: PAR35

“Go find a phone, and get back to me.”

Oh, pardon me. Well a ‘real phone’ has no ‘off button’ either. They are always on. They only have a hookswitch. The hookswitch does not turn anything ‘off’. It singles the switch board to start or end a call. The power is always on in the phone unless you unplug it from the wall.


46 posted on 01/05/2016 2:49:12 PM PST by TalonDJ
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