Popular Woodworking Magazine: When you learn woodworking through reading – books, magazines and websites – you often have no idea how certain words are pronounced. And so when you finally encounter fellow woodworkers in the flesh and have a conversation, there can be a language barrier.
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As someone typically involved in management and not very much construction, I do not always know the name of the tool I am using in the shop. And sometimes, people will ask me to do something with x tool and I will not know how to say the name again or what the tool is. After this article, I will be able to pronounce various tools that I have said and used before, but now say the names correctly. This is very important in the shop because someone could ask you for something and you might hear something else and that tool might hurt them. Having everyone on the same page and having everyone safe are both very important when working with lots of different types of tools.
Talk about nit-picky. English is one of the worst languages in terms of complexity. Rules have exceptions and exceptions have exceptions, and pronunciation is no different. Don't get me wrong, its important to pronounce names and terms in such a way that others can understand, otherwise language would be useless and tasks would completed in an untimely and o inefficient manner. Still, it really isn't that difficult to correct someone's pronunciation of a certain word when working with wood if they don't say it correctly.
I found this article both funny, and potentially useful. But not incredibly useful, given that most of these tools and terms are those that I've never used. That said, this sort of thing, with people mispronouncing words, drives me out of my mind. When you're trying to communicate something to someone who has no idea what you're saying is absolutely infuriating, especially when it's an issue of pronunciation.
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