@George,
I've been told that there is video--although i've not seen it myself.
@Setanta,
Setanta wrote:
I've been told that there is video--although i've not seen it myself.
Audio, too.
But I can't understand it.
@George,
Quote:The use of nominal in aerospace has nothing to do with names, nouns, or
interest rates. It does, however, have to do with small or trivial deviations
from a planned performance.
The use of nominal in aerospace generally means that a test, rocket launch,
satellite deployment, etc. is going within previously determined limits and
can still be expected to come to an acceptable outcome. If all continues as it
has been going, the test will demonstrate that the item under test will work as
expected; the rocket will achieve the proper orbit; the satellite's solar arrays,
antennae, etc. will open. The rocket is where it is supposed to be and going as
fast a it should this long after launch, the thrust is correct, and success is
expcected.
When the announcer of a rocket launch says that everything is nominal, she
really means that the flight is going normally, or as expected, so far. The
announcer remains calm throughout the flight, even if it ends with an
explosion, perhaps calling an obvious disaster an anomaly.
So there you have it. Pick a word, re-define it in not less than three paragraphs, and offer it to the public.
Really sensible.
@McTag,
My guess, McTag, is that you're pulling a linguistic leg or maybe a couple of them.
I'm off to bed soon.
But before I go, I have decided to reassign "bed" to mean "a 48-hour party with showgirls, celebrities, sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll"
@McTag,
Quote:But before I go, I have decided to reassign "bed" to mean "a 48-hour party with showgirls, celebrities, sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll"
At your age, such an escapade might not give you time to make it stick in the language. Good night, sleep tight between boinks and snorts, McTag.
@George,
McTag is going to have BP Bear over for a night of adnominaling and ubernominaling.
Another word I was unfamiliar with previous to working at this place is
"azimuth". I must have come across it in geometry, but if so, I'd totally
forgotten it.
It's fun to say it with a lisp.
Azimuth is a word which was invented to torment adolescent midshipmen attempting to learn navigation in the era of sailing ships.
@Setanta,
What is the azimuth of this isthmus, Mister Christian?
Very good . . . not many people know that Fletcher Christian was a midshipman.
@McTag,
McTag wrote:Nominal" on its own conveys no such meaning, except perhaps to the insiders of this particular dialect usage.
It's been a bit odd reading along on this nominal digression, as nominal in the "close enough" sense is standard usage here. Perhaps there are more insiders than outsiders on this issue.
I saw a book at the Goodwill yesterday that i didn't pick up, but i should have. It was an account of the Bounty mutiny by William Bligh.
Another bit of wordly silliness from the Widget factory.
At a meeting about performance reviews, our boss informed us that there
would be more gradations. The example he gave was for the rating "Fully
Competent". Now there are "low", "mid" and "high" levels of "Fully
Competent".
I asked my boss, "What part of 'Fully' don't they understand?"
@ehBeth,
Quote:It's been a bit odd reading along on this nominal digression, as nominal in the "close enough" sense is standard usage here
You are obviously as nutty as George and his coworkers.
@JTT,
I guess it's a whole nutty globe.
I'm ok with that.
@JTT,
JTT wrote:
. . . You are obviously as nutty as George and his coworkers.
George? Nutty?
Where on earth did you get that idea?
His coworkers on the other hand are obviously Loony Tunes.
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