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Re: Selected high-tech jargon, with applications

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From: Dave Martindale
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1987 08:24
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In article <1920@ucbcad.berkeley.edu> max@eros.UUCP (Max Hauser) writes:
>Here are some choice high-tech jawbreaker terms, culled in the
>course of considerable work in engineering:
>
>3. Steel-backed Babbitt journal bearings

Careful with this one; auto mechanics (and industrial mechanics in general)
ought to know what these are, and you wouldn't want them laughing at you,
now would you?  Be sure to reserve the terms for people with "higher"
educations than that, and beware of people who do their own car maintenance.
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From: dave@onfcanim.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,sci.lang,sci.physics
Subject: Re: Selected high-tech jargon, with applications
Message-ID: <15421@onfcanim.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 18-Oct-87 03:24:06 EST
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Posted: Sun Oct 18 03:24:06 1987
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