Re: Fine Tuning Shifting

On Fri, 16 Aug 2024 13:51:44 -0400, Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
wrote:

No one I've ever worked with in my 40+ years in this industry has ever
been called 'sparky' except for the aforementioned intern. Your inane
claim is about a valid as claiming I'm not an engineer because I don't
call fiber optics light lines.
>
 It was also used to refer to Radio operators and Liebermann could
verify that if he wasn't more interested in protecting your intelgrity
from your own comments.

Sparky was a slang name for the electric chair in US prisons:
<https://greensdictofslang.com/entry/ylyhrla>

Sparks was a slang name for a spark gap radio operator or a
theater/film lighting operator:
<https://greensdictofslang.com/entry/2fsl4qy>

I spent a large part of my working career in the 2-way radio business
and don't recall anyone being called sparky or sparks.  Same with ham
radio and broadcast engineering.  Such names sound good in movies and
videos, but elsewhere are treated as derogatory.

I've previously mentioned that I can easily determine whether someone
has had relevant experience in any trade, profession or disciple by
inspecting the manner in which they handle industry specific names,
acronyms, jargon, technologies, buzzwords, trademarks etc.  Someone
with experience will use all of these correctly.  Someone pretending
to have relevant experience will always make a mess of it.  (Yes, I do
mean always).  Even someone with extensive prior experience, but no
recent experience, will have problems because the jargon often change
with time.  Tom's misuse of industry jargon and inventing new terms,
is a good example of not having any experience.

"Better to Remain Silent and Be Thought a Fool than to Speak and
Remove All Doubt"
<https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/17/remain-silent/>





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