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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?
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
Happy Birthday TheDonF! || Whaddya know about Rochester, NY?

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