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Just curious-- does numismatic terminology subconsciously creep into your professional writing?
Longacre
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I was curious if any of the people on these boards who write for a living find that numismatic terminology or writing styles enter into your professional writing obligations on occasion.
Not to get into many details, but after re-reading a document I wrote, I found that there were a lot of QDB-esque statements in it, and I did not even realize that I was doing it. For example, QDB frequently writes that for their auctions, “opportunities abound” for acquiring rare coins. He also writes that, “the auction beckons”, and “rarities continue apace”, among other items.
I found that I recently wrote in a technical memo the following: “…expenditures in India will continue apace in 2009…” and “new opportunities for expansion in China abound…”, and finally, “the developing markets in Russia/CIS beckon…”.
I suppose that I will worry if I start to describe a tax position taken as “excessively rare and complex”.
Not to get into many details, but after re-reading a document I wrote, I found that there were a lot of QDB-esque statements in it, and I did not even realize that I was doing it. For example, QDB frequently writes that for their auctions, “opportunities abound” for acquiring rare coins. He also writes that, “the auction beckons”, and “rarities continue apace”, among other items.
I found that I recently wrote in a technical memo the following: “…expenditures in India will continue apace in 2009…” and “new opportunities for expansion in China abound…”, and finally, “the developing markets in Russia/CIS beckon…”.
I suppose that I will worry if I start to describe a tax position taken as “excessively rare and complex”.
Always took candy from strangers
Didn't wanna get me no trade
Never want to be like papa
Working for the boss every night and day
--"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
Didn't wanna get me no trade
Never want to be like papa
Working for the boss every night and day
--"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
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The computer world provides a rich lexicon of English 2.0 words, whose semantics will seem clear to someone versed in the art.
I always try to avoid using a foreign technical paradigm in my communications.
It's just easier for someone to interpret a context when you use the correct lexicon.
It leads to a higher overall throughput when you target and optimize your data interchange.
We'll hold monthly scrum meetings on this subject.
<< <i>I found that I recently wrote in a technical memo the following: “…expenditures in India will continue apace in 2009…” and “new opportunities for expansion in China abound…”, and finally, “the developing markets in Russia/CIS beckon…”. >>
This is actually pretty normal sounding at a planning level in any biz.
It would make me laugh to describe technical API documentation whilst using "rare coin marketing speak". But, nobody would get it.
Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
Does taking the history on a patient for the Dr. and writing on the form "ingested a Nickel" count?
-wes
Too many positive BST transactions with too many members to list.
Dan
<< <i>Not I. I never allow numismatic terminology NGCsucks to subconsciously enter into any of the writing thatcoinisAT that I do for work or elsewhere. That's just the gradeflation sign of a weak mind. >>
If Kevin Nealon were dead, he'd be rolling in his grave...
superlative adjectives you'll ever need.
I don't think they use the same one more than twice.
Actually, if you think about it, that takes a lot of creativity to achieve.
JT
I collect all 20th century series except gold including those series that ended there.
Garrow
Although this is good news, I wish now that I had found a way to add my favorite QDB-ism in the memo-- "the red carpet is rolled out for you."
Didn't wanna get me no trade
Never want to be like papa
Working for the boss every night and day
--"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
<< <i>I was curious if any of the people on these boards who write for a living find that numismatic terminology or writing styles enter into your professional writing obligations on occasion.
Not to get into many details, but after re-reading a document I wrote, I found that there were a lot of QDB-esque statements in it, and I did not even realize that I was doing it. For example, QDB frequently writes that for their auctions, “opportunities abound” for acquiring rare coins. He also writes that, “the auction beckons”, and “rarities continue apace”, among other items.
I found that I recently wrote in a technical memo the following: “…expenditures in India will continue apace in 2009…” and “new opportunities for expansion in China abound…”, and finally, “the developing markets in Russia/CIS beckon…”.
I suppose that I will worry if I start to describe a tax position taken as “excessively rare and complex”. >>
This is more than "Hero worship", Longacre.
You really need to get a life.
You may not understand your infatuation with QDB, but when he gets a PPO out on you for stalking, that should wake you up.
Ray
Regarding the QDBisms, I have them all memorized, so any usage tends to be deliberate on my part. IIRC I used one in my last book, something about overstuffed chairs.
<< <i>LA - it sounds like you've "achieved an era of good feeling."
Regarding the QDBisms, I have them all memorized, so any usage tends to be deliberate on my part. IIRC I used one in my last book, something about overstuffed chairs. >>
Maybe QDB can get a two-for-one deal on the PPOs.
Didn't wanna get me no trade
Never want to be like papa
Working for the boss every night and day
--"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)