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brodiejlb
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England
Posts: 99		 #41 | Posted: 14 Jun 2019 22:42
AlanBarr:
So I feel the magazine would be better renamed as either Model Engineer's Workshop or Model Engineers' Workshops.

Alan, I fancy that "Workshop(s) of Model Engineer(s)" might fit most eventualities. Of course, we would still face the conundrum - is he/she an engineer of models or are the engineers actually models?

Spankedjenny
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Posts: 278		 #42 | Posted: 15 Jun 2019 07:01
brodiejlb:
Alan, I fancy that "Workshop(s) of Model Engineer(s)" might fit most eventualities. Of course, we would still face the conundrum - is he/she an engineer of models or are the engineers actually models?

Or exemplars of their profession.

AlanBarr
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England
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Posts: 659		 #43 | Posted: 15 Jun 2019 09:48
Spankedjenny:
Or exemplars of their profession.

That reminds me of the old joke about a man who overheard his wife describing him as 'a model husband', and he was so proud he couldn't resist looking up 'model' in the dictionary and found it was 'a small imitation of the real thing'.

AlanBarr
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Posts: 659		 #44 | Posted: 15 Jun 2019 09:52
brodiejlb:
is he/she an engineer of models or are the engineers actually models?

Yes, language is so ambiguous it's amazing we can communicate at all.

galt54
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Posts: 438		 #45 | Posted: 15 Jun 2019 13:45
AlanBarr

I can tell when my wife is swearing in the Vietnamese language. Even though I only speak five words of vietnamese, and those five are not swear words. My wife's tone of voice is enough to make her understood!

myrkassi
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Posts: 661		 #46 | Posted: 16 Jun 2019 01:04
What is the difference between a cat and a comma?

A cat has claws on the end of its paws, while a comma is a pause at the end of a clause!

Does that clear it up?

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