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20 February 2008

Wordy Wednesday: Work Jargon →[More:]

I'm an English teacher at a private language school.

- alphabetize
- get-passives
- progressive (or continuous) aspect
- branding acetate

And you?

post by: mdonley at: 12:58 | 32 comments

I didn't realize "alphabetize" is jargon. Huh.

posted by JanetLand 20 February | 13:14

problematize
metrics
earned revenue
original fabric
any number of architectural, textile, and ceramic terms (redware! creamware! blue featheredge! linsey-woolsey! waistcoat! spencer! dentil molding! egg-and-dart! fanlight!)

posted by Miko 20 February | 13:16

Yeah, I learned "alphebatize" in grade-school library class; it just seems like the easiest way to say "put into alphabetical order."

posted by Miko 20 February | 13:17

- nonobviousness
- docket
- patentability
- prior art
- prosecution history estoppel
- 1449, 101, 102(a), 102(b), 102(e) [don't ask what happened to (c) and (d)], 103(a), 112 first paragraph, 112 second paragraph
- NTFMP, RCE, IDS, PCT, MPEP and sometimes FUBAR

I got plenty more but that's quite enough already.

posted by Joe Invisible 20 February | 13:19

fapping
is ammended and the following is added
non-premium bearing
mandatory state-specific
pulling from form-gen

posted by rainbaby 20 February | 13:32

"12 MRSA section 11205, as amended by PL 2005, c. 106, section 27, is further amended to read:"

posted by JanetLand 20 February | 13:36

monetize
utilize
Pee-Dee-Eff used as a verb.

posted by dabitch 20 February | 14:16

most of biology is jargon.

posted by gaspode 20 February | 14:22

granular....this database structure really allows for greater granularity.

I've often asked, just to be a jerk, "so the old data structure...it was chunkier?"

posted by richat 20 February | 14:30

As a translator, I get to use everybody else's jargon. Fortunately, I'm rather good at forgetting it, so I can't give you any examples.

posted by Daniel Charms 20 February | 14:39

RMST
pull list
ILLiad
Ariel
tray

We're pretty simple here.

posted by sperose 20 February | 14:44

fapping

*beavis and butt-head laughter*

posted by Joe Invisible 20 February | 14:45

Sub-debt
Leverage
Spreads
Provisions
Net interest margin
Fixed charged coverage
IRR

...yeah, it's mostly jargon over in finance too.

posted by mullacc 20 February | 14:45

* hardening off
* ting ting
* blown

posted by iconomy 20 February | 15:06

* model-based
* kludge (verb) or kludgy (adjective)
* ISO
* red-line (verb)

As a firm that works with military/DoD contracts, most of our jargon is abbreviations. Ones I've dealt with today:

* DMWR
* MMPDS
* NASM

posted by muddgirl 20 February | 15:18

*crunchy crunchies
*zingoz/kinzcash
*pattycake

posted by jrossi4r 20 February | 15:19

ROFL at the zingoz and kinzcash! My god, with a 6.5 year old and a 4 years old (today!) daughters I know of which you speak.

Now, I would like the award for today's least graceful sentence please.

posted by richat 20 February | 15:41

Happy Birthday, little richat!

jrossi, I envy you your job. I miss that job!

We need to hold a contest to see if anyone can figure out what we all do for a living/where we work. Some of these are very intriguing...

posted by iconomy 20 February | 16:07

It's true, many of these are odd, to say the least!

/still waiting for his award

posted by richat 20 February | 16:28

* outreach to (used instead of "call on the phone," "send e-mail to," or "mention to")
* piece (used when referring to work tasks, i.e. saying "I need to work on the community piece" when you need to call the local church)

posted by halonine 20 February | 16:45

richat:

≡ Click to see image ≡

posted by iconomy 20 February | 16:48

(A mixup of lingo from various parts of my job)

aspergillus/penicillium-like
play event
re-entry period
signal word
air-o-cell
critical fall height
dead hung
LEL
inert ingredients
guestimate
vomitory
stachy
ppb (parts per billion)
single axis swing
hemp house
runaway batten

posted by danf 20 February | 16:49

oh. .

and "mouse". . .used as a verb

posted by danf 20 February | 16:51

Leverage
Transversal
Corporate
Synergies

*sigh*

posted by TheDonF 20 February | 17:04

Yay! Happy birthday to the youngest richat! And if you ever run into a unicorn named Katrina in the tournament arena that's me...er, I mean, my kid.

I really do like my job most of the time. I'm starting realize what a truly temporary assignment it really is. *sniff*

posted by jrossi4r 20 February | 20:10

I love my award. I've got my newest 4 year old off to bed, and now I can go see Iggy, my littlekin panda....er I mean, the kids.

posted by richat 20 February | 20:17

pre-bump
fabe
work
the iggy
ecw the cam
laser jail
poke and twist
bury
powder
shoot

posted by jtron 20 February | 23:12

'hemp house,' danf? What's that, where you spend your lunch hour?

And jtron, do you work in pro wrestling? I have been trying to find a good book on the subject.

From my job: patron, serial, bib-level, MARC, webopac.

This could make a neat trivia quiz kinda thing.

posted by box 20 February | 23:21

box, a "hemp house" is a theater that has all of it's rigging with hemp ropes, usually with sandbags, as opposed to the steel "cages" that house most counterweights.

posted by danf 20 February | 23:29

I'm very vaguely acquainted with both kinds of theater, but never heard those terms. Thanks, danf.

posted by box 20 February | 23:38

'but I've,' even.

posted by box 20 February | 23:38

Flipping, as in sending a trouble ticket from an analyst back to a programmer when the programmer's fix wasn't right, or to another analyst who knows certain aspects of the application software better than oneself.

posted by PaxDigita 21 February | 07:46

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