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Re: Do you use the term SWAG in your teaching?



On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 11:41:59 -0600 Charles Bell <charbell@BELLSOUTH.NET>
writes:
Do you use the term SWAG in your teaching?
or swag ( scientific wild a s s guess).
No hurt intended.
I was sure that this term was very standard communication.
Like "take a swag" at it.

I was challenged recently and told that I could not "say" that word
anymore. When I looked it up and did a search on it, it does not seem
to show
up? Well, you know how I felt. So I was wondering.
This world is a strange place.


I ran up against the same kind of objections when I referred to
precise lab measurements that were only about "+/- 3 rch"
accurate. I don't use that term any more either.

Herb Gottlieb from New York City
(Where our measurements are not always perfectly precise either.)