technical terminology in ordinary language

[Victor]

There is no "their" there ;-)

Bill Palmer wrote:
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> those homophones are tricky little devils, n'est-ce pas?
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>> Hmm... Having hung around both lawyers and engineers, I can certainly
>> attest to *engineers* using "camshaft" as a rather sarcastic euphemism.
>> Don't know about mechanics... As for "dispositive" and "colorable",
>> they've been making their way into TV commentaries for some time now.
>> Still, I have hardly heard it in "everyday chatter" anywhere outside of
>> lawyer groups and academia. I suspect that most people who watch legal
>> analysis on FNC are unlikely to adopt these two in there normal usage.
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>>    VS-)
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>> Arnold Zwicky wrote:
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>>> Lee Beck on Facebook:
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>>> Heard some lawyers throwing around the words "dispositive" and
>>> "colorable" in everyday chatter... Imagining how they would react if a
>>> mechanic used the word "camshaft" in a metaphoric way...
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