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Subject: Technical terms and rules of thumb
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Date: Mon, 16-Mar-87 09:15:16 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 16 09:15:16 1987
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I am hoping to write an article (or something) about the way in which
technical terms and 'rules of thumb' from professional, scientific
and recreational fields find their way into general speech, and
into people's view of the world in general -- or how such terms and
concepts could be useful in daily life.

Sounds broad, I know.  To help me refine the idea, as well as to
produce a pool of possible examples, I would welcome any suggestions,
especially short lists of terms and rules-of-thumb from your field
of expertise which you think are, or could be, in general use as
analogies or metaphors.

Simple examples are "getting to first base" from baseball (now
used in fields as diverse as business and sex), "redundancy"
from cipher theory, "garbage in garbage out" from you-know-where.

  Chris

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