This thread reminds me of that scene for "My Fair Lady" where Henry Higgins sings "Why Can't the English Teach Their Childre How to Speak"
Slang., lingo, jargon, hackneyed colloquialisms, bizarre abbreviations, computer terminology and online cute abbreviations, endless technobabble and millions of acronyms, military words, communications language that originated with morse code, and kinda "buzz-words" that some folks think will make an outsider an instant insider are all ever-present. Every profession, business, art, craft, hobby, sport, has photography is no exception. Some are passing fads and some stick forever. It is a fact of life and we just gotta live with it. Fortunately, some of the really annoying ones fade away but eventually will be replaced with new ones.
I remember when portrait photographers were considered "low-class" if they told clients "I'm gonna shoot your kid, soup the negs, pull some proffs, and then you'll pick the shots one you like for blowups and yes, I will retouch the diaperrash! Now the upscale snobbish crowd wod say NO!!! We photograph you, children, create a set of "previews" or worse"debut prints" ("Proofs" are a dirty word) from which you can select for our Masterpiece collection of fine portraiture"! We don't retouch- we ENHANCE! God forbid you should ask for a "deposit" or a retainer, it is an "INVESTMENT! No wonder folks are shooting selfies for family pictures. Oh, and photographic consultants or salespersons were called "proof passers". They were carefully chosen among folks who were up to the ears in debt, desperate for money, and only given commission on sales! SHARKS!
Thumbnails, Why not toenails? The next time one of my assists says "copy that-boss "I will escort him to the roof and throw him off!
Flash GUN?- watt are we using flash powder in a T-Gun that is triggered with flint! Is it I.S.O, I-sew, I-so- who cares? An electronic flash unit, a Speedlight, a mono-light, or a studio flash unit is not really a STROBE. An actual stroboscopic light source is a rapidly repeating flash that is used for photographic motion studies, special effects, automotive engine timing, emergency lights atop a police car, or warning lights on road hazard barricades. OH, did anyone actually mash potatoes with a Metz "flashgun"!
Why is a low-profile, non-retro-focus lens call a "pancake"- do we clean it with maple syrup?
Ever been on a motion-picture production set. Do the age beer in a KEG-light. After you mount a huge Panavision camera on a TOP-HAT- do you place it on the camera operator's head? I have work still on several of these sets and it took me weeks to decipher their lingo.
"Nifty-Fifty" sounds more friendly than a 50mil. sound more lie is a 50mm Browning heavy machine gun that was developed during WWII.
Barndoors belong in the farmyard, snoots are par of an anteater, what's so beautiful about a "beauty light" to look lie a round stainless-steel sink with a drain at the center, with its built-in stopper in the raised position. Why not call it a "sink light"? If you still do a film in the darkroom, you cou use it alternately as a print washer!
My many the 50 is considered a "normal" but who around here is "NORMAL"? Photographers are supposed to be eccentric. That is what would happen if drilled another hole, off-center on a vinyl record and played it on your concentric turntable
Even the cuss words have changed and vary with ethnic and national roots. When I drop a heavy tripod in my foot, I can yell BOLIX, BUBKIS. or a few French-Canadian terms that pertain to artifacts of the church and nobody gets offended.
My advice, if a word annoys you, don't use it or encourage it, others will follow suit. If you broadcast the fact that doesn't like it- some folks will use it more to annoy you!
10-7 Good Buddy or QRT!
This thread reminds me of that scene for "My ... (