Patricia Ramirez on wed 11 aug 04
Thanks to:
Joseph Herbert, Lou in Colorado, Jeanette Harris, Mike Gordon, sdr, Wayne,
Steve Slatin, Anne Webb, Lili, Randy Peckham, Muddauberone, sorry if I miss
someone.
In Spanish RIO meas "river". Because off you kindness now I know that I
cannot use a river in my glasses, will be better to use Red Iron Oxide.
Thanks again everybody.
Patricia.
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De: Joseph Herbert
Para: Mailing List Clay Art
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Enviado: Viernes, 06 de Agosto de 2004 09:19 p.m.
Asunto: Red Iron Oxide, Oh, yeah. I knew that.
> Patricia Ramirez wants to know what RIO means.
>
> It means Red Iron Oxide.
>
> This points out one of my very favorite pet peeves: the inappropriate use
of
> abbreviations and acronyms. The argot, jargon, pol speak, code, slang,
and
> all other short cut speech that people use daily facilitate communication
> with those in the know and isolate those who are not so blessed. The
> perpetuation of such usage in an "Instructive Environment" like clayart
is,
> as this case illustrates, non-productive. The users of the abbreviation
get
> that good clubby feel and the non-initiate gets the embarrassing, "you
> didn't know that, dummy?" feeling. Very nice.
>
> I work in an industry that is awash in acronyms and I have a bet with
myself
> that I cannot settle. I believe that a careful, objective testing of the
> staff would show that every single person would not know the correct
meaning
> of at least one acronym and an average lack of accurate knowledge might
run
> more toward 2% or 3%. This is just a feeling and there is no support for
> the idea at all, and there is probably not anyway to ever know - but I
think
> it is true.
>
> Most people, unlike Patricia, just go on and never admit or recognize that
> they don't know. The most dangerous are those that think they know the
> meaning and really do not. There is a web site somewhere that devotes a
> section to mis-heard song titles and lyrics. A favorite from personal
> knowledge was from a hand written jukebox label, "Against the Win" a Bob
> Seger tune.
>
> Straight speaking (good language use) and straight thinking go together.
> Can you accurately express your thoughts even to yourself with language
you
> don't truly understand?
>
> Joseph Herbert
>
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