Vernooij, CP - SPLXM wrote: >Not so strange. That's what you get, when you take a normal word, that has a >normal meaning to everybody and use it for a very special niche thing that >lives fully outside of normal lifes of 95% of the people.
Of course. There are dictionaries for each field/career/study etc... Here at IBM-MAIN members are discussing/using terms about z/OS, OS/390, MVS, etc. AFAIK, Medical terms are not used much here for example, the last time I checked. :-D >Don't be surprised that the 'normal' people suppose the 'normal' meaning of >this normal word. I once made an error where I asked a parent of a Down syndrome child where he will put his child. In a 'normal' or 'special' school? He asked me a counter question: "What is 'normal'?" Oooooops... >We have elections coming up and a survey showed that many people don't know >the meaning of terms that are used only in parliament and on political >talkshows on TV. Here in sunny South Africa we are using the term 'voting station', not 'polling station' during elections. Why? 'polling' sounds much like 'police'. :-D Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
