Gerry wrote:
On May 14, 4:42 pm, George M. Middius cmndr _ george @ comcast .
net wrote:
Gerry said:

Actually Gerry didn't, and wouldn't want to, say:
RIAA is a bodge to correct another bodge.

I said it.

What Gerry said was
What the hell is "bodge"????

And then George replied:
It's obviously some bit of Brit slang. I've never heard it before but
the meaning is plain.
My suggestion is to find a 12-year-old child who earns a B average in
school and ask the child to clue you in.

And Gerry stubbornly insisted:
It was not 'obvious' at all.

George:
Yes it was.

Gerry:
No - it was not. It's an archaic word not used on a regular basis in
America. Webster's 1956 Dictionary describes bodge as an obsolete
version of the word botch.

Some snips of childishness for bandwidth, then George asks, reasonably
in the circumstances:
Sort of, but not precisely. Is English not your first language?

Gerry:
American English is.
but the meaning was not at all clear in the original post.

George:
Was too. Blazingly obvious.

Gerry:
The whole initial post is rather muddled and unclear because of such
uncommon verbiage as bodge.

Lovely.

Yo, Gerry, I'm a professional communicator. I say exactly what I mean,
no more, no less. If you do not follow, it is because either a) I
intended for you not to understand or b) you are a thicko below my
horizon. You might consider that everyone else understood what I
meant. The only acceptable excuse for not understanding me when I
speak that plainly is that you are unfamiliar with the technicalities
underlying RIAA emphasis and de-emphasis, in which case you should,
rather than attack my language, say you don't understand, and you will
receive a courteous explanation from the few remaining on RAT who
still honour the open-door principles of the ARRL.

Andre Jute
The trouble with most people is not what they don't know, but what
they know for certain that isn't true. ---Mark Twain