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eevblog is a good youtube channel with interesting stuff about electronics but holy crap the fact that "tr*nny" is australian EE slang for transistor really grates sometimes

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@Felthry this is also fun when you're into cars and people constantly use that word for transmissions.

by that I mean not fun at all. I had no idea this was happening with other words too.

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@mell Seems to only be in Australian usage that we've seen? Certainly no engineer we know in the US uses it, and we know a fair few

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@Felthry and also here in America people call car transmissions that as well

censored transphobic slur, but not being used as such 

@Felthry it’s straight up just the one guy though lol

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@ticky is it? we don't know any other australian engineers

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@Felthry he’s straight up the only one who I’ve seen use it compulsively, and he’s been asked to reconsider it repeatedly and never even acknowledged it lmao

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@ticky bleh :<

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