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Why Workplace Jargon Is A Big Problem How many of the terms have you heard/used recently? -------------- Good Luck To get the most from your Tek-Tips experience, please read FAQ181-2886 Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something. - Plato

Perfect word for this group. -------------- Good Luck To get the most from your Tek-Tips experience, please read FAQ181-2886 Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something. - Plato

I was in the grocery store over the weekend and I came across a product labeled "Yeast Rings". Most people, I suspect, know this product by another name. Any guesses to the more common name? -------------- Good Luck To get the most from your Tek-Tips experience, please read FAQ181-2886 Wise...

Dictionaries change: This is literally the end of the English language Given that the cited definition is self-referential, what does that really do to the definition? -------------- Good Luck To get the most from your Tek-Tips experience, please read FAQ181-2886 Wise men speak because they...

The Alot is Better Than You at Everything -------------- Good Luck To get the most from your Tek-Tips experience, please read FAQ181-2886 Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something. - Plato

This poem was forwarded to me, and I thought it would be fun to share. http://imgur.com/gallery/BYY3FYN -------------- Good Luck To get the most from your Tek-Tips experience, please read FAQ181-2886 Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something...

Do the following two sentences convey the same meaning? Thoughts? -------------- Good Luck To get the most from your Tek-Tips experience, please read FAQ181-2886 Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something. - Plato

I am converting a number of FoxPro tables to SQL Server 2008 using the OpenRowSet function. The original tables didn't have key fields defined as identities, and some of them have duplicate values. As expected, the insert command bombs on those; however, when I remove the duplicates from the...

I hope everyone has a fearless Friday, the 13th. -------------- Good Luck To get the most from your Tek-Tips experience, please read FAQ181-2886 Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something. - Plato

It's been a while since we've given our newer members an opportunity to introduce themselves - in fact, it's been so long the original thread is now closed. Therefore, to all our newer members, Welcome to Making an Impression. Please take the time to read our forum description, and then, we...

I'm trying to execute an external program from Apache/PHP, and the PHP scrips hangs up on the exec command. Details: Windows 2008 R2, Apache 2.4, and PHP 5.2.17 The executable was building Visual FoxPro 9.0, SP2. The exe currently resides in the Windows\System32 directory. It's only there for...

I'm trying to execute an external program from within a PHP script, and the PHP scrips hangs up on the exec command. Details: Windows 2008 R2, Apache 2.4, and PHP 5.2.17 The executable was building Visual FoxPro 9.0, SP2. The exe currently resides in the Windows\System32 directory. It's only...

http://www.omniglot.com/ I haven't had the chance to get through the entire yet, but it looks very interesting. -------------- Good Luck To get the most from your Tek-Tips experience, please read FAQ181-2886 Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say...

It should come as no surprise that the word of today is quadrennial. -------------- Good Luck To get the most from your Tek-Tips experience, please read FAQ181-2886 Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something. - Plato

Phrases That Signal Workplace Hierarchy Thoughts? -------------- Good Luck To get the most from your Tek-Tips experience, please read FAQ181-2886 Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something. - Plato

Not only do words and how they're used affect the connotation of the message, so do numbers and how they're represented. Numeracy: The Educational Gift That Keeps on Giving? -------------- Good Luck To get the most from your Tek-Tips experience, please read FAQ181-2886 Wise men speak because...

Books That Are Never Done Being Written Worth reading. -------------- Good Luck To get the most from your Tek-Tips experience, please read FAQ181-2886 Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something. - Plato

The AP (Associated Press) article has been printed in many papers, More U.S. women having twins; rate at 1 in 30 babies, but I wonder what it really means. If 1 in 30 is a twin, does it mean that the other 29 are not twins? If so, then when is the other twin counted? In the next 30? Does is...

Does anyone know the etymology of the phrase: "shake a dead cat"? Thanks. -------------- Good Luck To get the most from your Tek-Tips experience, please read FAQ181-2886 Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something. - Plato

Will the English language ever die? It's a good read. -------------- Good Luck To get the most from your Tek-Tips experience, please read FAQ181-2886 Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something. - Plato