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Re: Common operational misconceptions
From: Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:56:21 -0500 (EST)
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From: "Jimmy Hess" <mysidia () gmail com>
RJ45 is really an example of what was originally a misconception became so widespread, so universal, that reality has actually shifted so the misconception became reality. When was the last time you ever heard anyone say "8P8C connector?" Joe public caught on to "RJ45", so now that word means something different in common usage than what it was specified to be. When was the last time you heard someone say 8P8C connector in reference to Ethernet?
WADR: horseshit. I, in fact, just wrote a cabling RFQ yesterday for a new building, and *I* write "8P8C male modular connector". So, in short: if you *actually need to be saying it*, you actually need to be saying it correctly, because you're talking to people who know the difference. They won't say anything, mind you, and you'll get what you want; they'll just think you're a clueless dilettante. Cheers, -- jr 'yes, I'm a prescriptivist[1]' a [1] The *point* of language is communication; this is impossible if words "mean what people want them to mean, no more, no less". -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra () baylink com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274
Current thread:
- Re: Common operational misconceptions, (continued)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Sven Olaf Kamphuis (Feb 17)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions R. Sami (Feb 17)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Keegan Holley (Feb 16)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Octavio Alvarez (Feb 19)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions nanog (Feb 21)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Scott Weeks (Feb 17)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Bob Vaughan (Feb 17)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Jimmy Hess (Feb 20)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Lamar Owen (Feb 21)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Robert Bonomi (Feb 21)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Jay Ashworth (Feb 21)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Jimmy Hess (Feb 20)