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To: Dr. David Gleitman who wrote (30214)	8/22/2000 5:31:03 PM
From: bonnuss_in_austin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 35685

LOL, Dr Gleitman ... sexual innuendo ... AND medical jargon is prevalent in at least two tech sectors in which I've worked. At TXN, in the computer/peripherals service division (TXN is long OUT of that market, but was in it rather big-time in early-mid 80s. They used some rather colorful terms for measuring financial/statistical performance such as "MTBF" mean time before failure ... and my favorite, "DOA." Meant how many components/or overall printer or overall mini-systems (no PCs yet in those days) were received by customers "dead on arrival." Ha. Talked about the "DOA rate" all the time. In interconnection market segment, I've interviewed many bespectacled electrical engineering types designing board-level connectors and such about new products in order to write news releases, newsletter announcements, direct mail pieces, etc ... They 'wax eloquent' during these interviews about such seemingly embarrassing subjects as "mating compatibility" ... and the "female receptacle" and the "male header" ... and the "integrity of the contact" and "surface mounting" (versus "board-level THROUGH-HOLE mounting") ... "withdrawals" (in durability testing <g> ... "maximal penetration" ... and, perhaps worst of all: "insertion force." Sometimes, it's hard for me to keep a straight face with all this LURID pornographic imagery flying around <g> ... and we're discussing LITTLE BITTY connectors ... some only the size of one's thumbnail ... Love the linguistics in tech ... and likely all other industries in which very bright people are working in design engineering. 'b-i-a' ###