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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Leeke, Preservation Consultant
> Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 11:15 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Nuthin' like Nomenclature
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> JRhodes writes:
> >>I've never ceased to be amazed at
> the amount of miscommunication that occurs among project participants when
> definitions are not agreed on as a very first step.
> Even back in the old days
> when I was
> a full time tradesperson I used to try to gather everyone
> together early in
> the project and make sketches and write in the names everyone one was
> calling the various building parts.
<snipperoo>
> But they were all
> still looking at me like I'm supposed to know what to do about six short
> shafts. I put my pencil in my pocket, tossed my clip board on the steps,
> sauntered over to the back of my pickup, and pulled out my trusty old-time
> column stretcher.
I think it's time to add a new sig line to my collection....
_____________________________________________________
Dan Becker, Executive Director "The workman ought often to
Raleigh Historic be thinking, and the thinker
Districts Commission often to be working."
[log in to unmask] -- John Ruskin
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