This thread lists all the mispronounced words during the build season. The true definition follows the word.
Automonous - Not controlled by others or by outside forces; independent.
Oscilator - a device that uses a cathode-ray tube or similar instrument to depict on a screen periodic changes in an electric quantity, as voltage or current.
Initiation - the format of sectors on the surface of a hard disk drive so that the operating system can access them and setting a starting position
Fas - not true or correct
Demominator - Arithmetic. that term of a fraction, usually written under the line, that indicates the number of equal parts into which the unit is divided; divisor.
Profesional Gracism - Gracious Proffesionalism
Sposicious - openly distrustful and unwilling to confide.
I think it would be more fun to make up definitions for the new word created from the mispronunciations…
Automonous - n. the frequent sound made by a team member not wearing a watch. ex: Do you know automonous? May also be pronounced Au-to moan-us to represent the sound the team makes when the robot malfunctions during the first 15 seconds of the match.
Profesional Gracism - n. the blessing said before Robotics competitions begin.
Sposicious - adj. describing the team member who always has another idea and starts every sentence with “S’pose we do this…”
What is with the bunny reference? Just yesterday my son had a dilemma and I asked him what the worst thing was that could happen to him as a result. His answer - They could send me to the bunny farm!
Ah, the jab of a fellow teammate! :rolleyes: Play nice please. I actually thought the misspelling was done on purpose as it fit in well with the theme of the thread, so I chose to ignore it.
Along with being webmaster, I also do the electronics. I had just finished labeling all the spike relays and had started wiring up the victors. One spike is labeled “A&M Sol.”, being that it controls the solenoid that shifts the AndyMark Shifter (Tangent that relates to the story: I have named all the electrical and mechanical components on the robot. The shifters ended up being Andy and Mark.) One of our mentors (Lurch, Northrop Grumman) asked what the label meant, and criticized me for it: “You should relay the information to the rest of the team when you label it like that. If I were to secretly name the wings on the B-2 the Moose, it just wouldn’t make sense if I were to say that the Moose flaps have a lot of drag.”
At this point, I’m on the floor. I turned from red to blue and eventually went back to wiring. The ramps from then on have been called the “Moose Flaps”.
“The Bunny has emerged” has to do with the same mentor (Lurch) and the ramps kind of. Stan from Scaled Composites in Mojave brought a Tyvek suit with the ramps so we could cut and drill them without getting carbon fiber embedded in our skin/clothes. For some reason the suit had been called a bunny suit. Lurch puts it on, cuts some stuff, and gets out of the suit screaming, “THE BUNNY HAS EMERGED!!”
Sposicious - openly distrustful and unwilling to confide.
Oscilator - a device that uses a cathode-ray tube or similar instrument to depict on a screen periodic changes in an electric quantity, as voltage or current.
Initiation - the format of sectors on the surface of a hard disk drive so that the operating system can access them and setting a starting position
Fas - not true or correct
Demominator - Arithmetic. that term of a fraction, usually written under the line, that indicates the number of equal parts into which the unit is divided; divisor.
The words above originated from mostly one of the programmers, as the other two programmers and I were programming the robot too late into the night with a lack of sleep and food. or maybe too much food?!
And don’t forget. “Betty the Awesome Panda”. (Again, Lurch’s words) As the arm on he bot was being tested One team member, Dan, was playing with some white board markers and was annoying Lurch (I believe) and was scolded: “Bad Panda!” which somehow evolved into “Betty the Awesome Panda”.
I think it originated earlier that day but I was off in another room programming.
How about the most annoying, most aggravating, most incorrectly used words in the written English language?
your - “you are” as in “your about to lose”
you’re - a possessive, as in “you’re robot is falling apart”
NOTHING AGGRAVATES ME MORE THAN WHEN I SEE THAT. Massive quantities of government funding should be allocated to eradicate this evil from our midst permanently.
You can also add “we’re” vs. “were” to that. Just plain wrong.