On May 14, 7:08 am, George M. Middius cmndr _ george @ comcast .
net wrote:
Gerry said:

RIAA is a bodge to correct another bodge.
What the hell is "bodge"????

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.


It was not 'obvious' at all. I seriously doubt that any 12-year-old
American child has ever heard or used that word before. What I'm
gathering from others' interpretations is that it would seem to mean
"cobble together", but the meaning was not at all clear in the
original post.

Gerry said:

RIAA is a bodge to correct another bodge.

What the hell is "bodge"????

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.

It was not 'obvious' at all.

Yes it was.

I seriously doubt that any 12-year-old
American child has ever heard or used that word before.

Not the point.

What I'm
gathering from others' interpretations is that it would seem to mean
"cobble together",

Sort of, but not precisely. Is English not your first language?

but the meaning was not at all clear in the original post.

Was too. Blazingly obvious.




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

RIAA is a bodge to correct another bodge.
What the hell is "bodge"????
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.
It was not 'obvious' at all.

Yes it was.

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.


I seriously doubt that any 12-year-old
American child has ever heard or used that word before.

Not the point.

YOU brought it up...


What I'm
gathering from others' interpretations is that it would seem to mean
"cobble together",

Sort of, but not precisely. Is English not your first language?

American English is.


but the meaning was not at all clear in the original post.

Was too. Blazingly obvious.

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

Gerry wrote:

On May 14, 7:08 am, George M. Middius cmndr _ george @ comcast .
net wrote:
Gerry said:

RIAA is a bodge to correct another bodge.
What the hell is "bodge"????

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.


It was not 'obvious' at all. I seriously doubt that any 12-year-old
American child has ever heard or used that word before. What I'm
gathering from others' interpretations is that it would seem to mean
"cobble together", but the meaning was not at all clear in the
original post.

From wikipedia


Bodge is British slang for a clumsy, messy, inelegant or inadequate solution
to a problem. (See also Kludge.)

IAn

RIAA is evil.... :-)


What the hell is "bodge"????


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.

Sounds like our word "Kludge". To throw something together to do
something, even though it won't be elegant or efficient from a systems
level point of view.

In article . com,
Gerry wrote:

On May 13, 6:33 pm, Andre Jute wrote:
Seeing all the posts about RIAA filters, I can only say I hope none of
the participants passed on the gene of obsessive shortsightedness that
draws audiophiles into the wastelands of RIAA. Vinyl discs are bad
enough when good clean CD's are available, but RIAA is a bodge to
correct another bodge. Two bodges don't make it right.

Andre Jute
uses only CD and so has time for more music

What the hell is "bodge"????

It may not be completely accurate, but as a working definition I think
of "bodge" as a British synonym for "kludge".


Regards,

John Byrns

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Surf my web pages at, http://fmamradios.com/

John Byrns wrote:
In article . com,
Gerry wrote:

On May 13, 6:33 pm, Andre Jute wrote:
Seeing all the posts about RIAA filters, I can only say I hope none of
the participants passed on the gene of obsessive shortsightedness that
draws audiophiles into the wastelands of RIAA. Vinyl discs are bad
enough when good clean CD's are available, but RIAA is a bodge to
correct another bodge. Two bodges don't make it right.

Andre Jute
uses only CD and so has time for more music

What the hell is "bodge"????

It may not be completely accurate, but as a working definition I think
of "bodge" as a British synonym for "kludge".

I would say it is more than "a working definition". "Kludge" is an
exact equivalent of "bodge". However, as I explained elsewhere,
personal experience (I haven't looked it up yet) inclines me not to
believe too much in a strict line of demarcation down the middle of
the Atlantic on this one. Both words appear in my experience to have
currency on both sides of the Atlantic.

Regards,

John Byrns

--
Surf my web pages at, http://fmamradios.com/

Andre Jute
"Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the
world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that
but not with all those flies and death and stuff."
--- Mariah Carey.

Gerry wrote:
On May 13, 6:33 pm, Andre Jute wrote:
Seeing all the posts about RIAA filters, I can only say I hope none of
the participants passed on the gene of obsessive shortsightedness that
draws audiophiles into the wastelands of RIAA. Vinyl discs are bad
enough when good clean CD's are available, but RIAA is a bodge to
correct another bodge. Two bodges don't make it right.

Andre Jute
uses only CD and so has time for more music

What the hell is "bodge"????

I think John Byrns has already given the American as "kludge".

Though I seem to recall that I first heard the word "bodge" used by
one of my mechanics at Talladega when I was young and reckless enough
to ask "Why?" It turned out there was a man called Bodger, though I
want to stress immediately that I never met him, just in case he turns
out to be a street myth.

My own bodger, kept in my hot rod toolchest (I used to hotrod old
Bentleys), was given to me by an American mechanic. It is a First
World War British Army knife. The bodger part is the fold-out bayonet.
These knives were once seen in every mechanic's toolbox. A common
American version with the younger mechanics, until they had the money
to buy the British Army knife, was tire iron ground round and to a
spiky point at one end.

HTH.

Andre Jute
Impedance is futile, you will be simulated into the triode of the
Borg. -- Robert Casey

Andre Jute said:

What the hell is "bodge"????

I think John Byrns has already given the American as "kludge".

The correct spelling is "kluge" (rhymes with stooge).



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Krooscience: The antidote to education, experience, and excellence.

George M. Middius wrote:
Andre Jute said:

What the hell is "bodge"????

I think John Byrns has already given the American as "kludge".

The correct spelling is "kluge" (rhymes with stooge).


Is that right? Jenn and Bob Morein will enjoy this. In the movies
there a transition called a few-gew by moom pitcher pipple and a fewg
by anyone else, and spelled fugue by both parties. An example is when
you hear a phone ring in one scene and in the next scene see it ring
in a diffeerent setting; that's a few-gew.

All the same I think I'll stick with kludge because I would hate for
people I need to consider me stuck-up.

On your analogy, perhaps a bodge should be pronounced "booger" by us
edjicated people.

Andre Jute
"Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the
world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that
but not with all those flies and death and stuff."
--- Mariah Carey.