Wednesday, October 13, 2010

English vs ENG-glish Lesson #2: On The Rocks


Every profession has jargon. Engineering and FMCG have some gems that are worth sharing.


English:
Ice = Crucial ingredient in most cocktails and alcoholic pleasures


ENG-glish:
ICE = Instrumentation, Control and Electrical. As in instrumentation engineers, control engineers and electrical engineers. In my experience, these guys (along with the maintenance teams), are the new engineering graduate's life line. At the plants that I worked at the ICE teams were generally made up of older engineers who had been there for years. They have a wealth of experience, practical ideas and dirty jokes.

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