Re: Why Dimensioning and Tolerancing Really Does Matter

On Fri, 20 May 2005 21:14:36 -0500, Tim K. wrote
(in article <gQwje.31469$VH2.16118@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

> I saw that in a change order package yesterday and what struck me was the
> conversion of two perfectly good nouns into verbs, just to change them back
> into nouns.

Hey, I didn't make up the name of the practice. Besides, everyone
knows how little engineers know of proper English anyway.

Back to the subject at hand, I took a 40-hour training class in it at
Boeing and was frankly amazed at both how much I learned and how much I
still had to learn about proper dimensioning and tolerancing for design
drawings.

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