Conference thebay::joyoflex

    'Fraid .0 seems a little bit ambiguous.  Engineers have bugs, and of
    course the word has been adopted and made famous by programmers. Since
    the general population (other than engineers, and perhaps scientists)
    doesn't use the word as slang this way, I see how it is jargon.
    
    To say that painters have holidays certainly sounds to me like jargon;
    I had never heard that slang usage, and would not have guessed.
    
    However, a typographical error is merely a KIND of error, with no
    slang involved.  And surely the words "corrections" and "errors"
    themselves are not jargon, even if they are coded in Latin.
    
    If you're looking for KINDS of errors, such as transposition,
    misspelling, Spoonerism, Freudian slip, etc., then of course a
    thesaurus will be best.
    
    If you're really looking for only jargon, then "bug" and "holiday"
    from .0, plus more of this sort, are suitable.  I can't really think
    of any though.  As jokes, of course we misuse the word "feature" or
    say "obscure feature," "undocumented feature," etc.  Maybe
    "irreproducible result."
    
    The words "crosstalk" and "chatter" also seem to be jargon, although
    they are not slang.

    "noise"

    Thanks for the replies.            
    
    re .1 (Norm) I _am_ looking for jargon for errors: terms_of_art used
    by one group to describe their mistakes, which have no meaning, or a
    different meaning, to those outside the group.
    
    You are probably right about typos, corrigenda, and errata. `Bug'
    is, today, a jargon term, since most people still think of insects,
    but I suspect that its status is changing. Painter's holidays are
    spots which they missed while painting; certainly this is not what
    most people expect a holiday to be.

    G'day,
    
     I suspect the 'holidays' is a naval term....  certainly it was a naval
    person from whom I heard it first.
    
    Also (describing my painting) it ' Wasn't so bad that a blind man
    wouldn't be pleased to see it!'
    
    
    Then there was the bacon slicer that got a little behind in her work...
    
    derek
    
    

    And oh yes, having just read the note about an air traffic
    controller's violation of jargon, let's not forget our industry's
    other famous jargon word:
    
    CRASH

    CRASH:
    
    Now there's a good medical term!

    No, you mean `iatrogenic pathology', which is medical jargon for
    `whoops, we cut off the wrong leg'.
    
    b

    I went to a dermatologist because sunlight, for unknown reasons, was
    giving me s skin rash.  He told me I had "idiopathic photodermatitis"
    which is medicalese for "for unknown reasons, sunlight gives you a
    rash."
    
    					andrew

    Yes, I did mean "crash" as a medical term, as in "crash cart", the cart
    that holds all the medical paraphernalia for dealing with heart attacks.

    Now if the heart attack was induced by the doctor, I suppose we would
    be dealing with an iatrogenic something-or-other.

    Parents have children
    
    Husbands have mistresses
    
    Wives have lovers
    
    Actors are 'just resting' when unemployed
    
    
    Nick

     I think they call it hiatus. 8^)

    >Husbands have mistresses
                   ----------
                   wives
    
    >Wives have lovers
                ------
                husbands
    
    After all, they consider their lovers to be compensation for
    the effects of their previous mistakes.
    
    
    >Parents have children
    
    No dispute about this one.
    
    You know why programming is like sex?
    
    
    One mistake, and you have to support it for a lifetime.

    My husband is a plasterer, and I have heard him and his associates
    refer to mistakes (of other plasterers, of course) as "cat faces".  
    These are smile-type streaks in the set plaster, visible only in a 
    certain light, but nevertheless unintended.
    
    - cj