website to promote National Mass Retuning Day

"Roderick Stewart" wrote in
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In article , Bill Wright
wrote:
Another hobby horse of mine , I hate the word scanner for both the
instrument,
and the enthusiast/operator and stubbornly call them communication
receivers
and SWLs respectively.

Scanners are for document reading, surely? And what about metal detector
users being known as detectorists?

A scanner can also be a mobile television control room, the reason for
this
no doubt lost in the mists of time. It always seemed like a daft choice of
word to me.

Rod.

Yes I know. I once referred to an ENG vehicle in GTV Quay Street car park
as a "small scanner" a crew member told me it wasn't one and not to presume
I had any knowledge of the industry. Never mind, that guy was probably made
redundant at the same time as Super16 or something.

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Graham.

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On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:30:24 +0100, Peter Duncanson
wrote:

Making a wild guess, the idea might be that a person in that control
room is scanning the screens showing the output of the cameras.

There was a thread about this some years ago but I've forgotten the
outcome.

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Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow, overlooking Lochs Long and Goil in Argyll, Scotland.
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"J G Miller" wrote in message
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On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:30:24 +0100, Peter Duncanson wrote:

The word scan was around long before all this technology.

As far back as 1981 there was even a movie titled "Scanners".

http://www.imdb.COM/title/tt0081455/

Ah, the exploding head film.

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Max Demian

Bill Wright said...

And what about metal detector
users being known as detectorists?

On the news tonight one item mentioned that a young girl had "truanted"

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Ken O'Meara
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I just quickly scanned the subject line and read it as "National Mass
Returning Day" :-)

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Dave Saville

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UnsteadyKen wrote:
Bill Wright said...

And what about metal detector
users being known as detectorists?

On the news tonight one item mentioned that a young girl had "truanted"

and some years ago on R3 an American said a piece had be "compositionised".

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"J G Miller" wrote in message
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Digital UK are now operating a web site to promote the activities of
the National Mass Retuning Day (NMRD).

http://www.tvretune.co.UK/

I do not understand why the web site is saying that an antenna upgrade
may be required for the NMRD event when various postal codes are entered
to specify various locations which are currently in very strong DVB-t
signal areas.


I can see that this is going to cause an awful lot of aggro along the North
Somerset coast area, where Wenvoe and Mendip overlap, as without doubt over
the years thousands of receivers will have been tuned in by aerial riggers
or tv engineers using a C/D filter to eliminate the Wenvoe transmissions
(which otherwise annoyingly usually take priority in the programme list) or
they have been (often) painstakingly winkled out using the edit facility in
the install menu.

"UnsteadyKen" wrote in message
m...
Bill Wright said...

And what about metal detector
users being known as detectorists?

On the news tonight one item mentioned that a young girl had "truanted"

"There's no noun that can't be verbed."

--
Max Demian

Max Demian wrote:
"UnsteadyKen" wrote in message
m...
Bill Wright said...

And what about metal detector
users being known as detectorists?

On the news tonight one item mentioned that a young girl had
"truanted"

"There's no noun that can't be verbed."

But they often serve a useful purpose. What longwinded expression would you
need to put in place of 'truanted' in the above or, for example,
'helicoptered' if she'd been transported by helicopter somewhere?

On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:57:42 +0100, "Norman Wells"
wrote:

Max Demian wrote:
"UnsteadyKen" wrote in message
m...
Bill Wright said...

And what about metal detector
users being known as detectorists?

On the news tonight one item mentioned that a young girl had
"truanted"

"There's no noun that can't be verbed."

But they often serve a useful purpose. What longwinded expression would you
need to put in place of 'truanted' in the above

"played truant" is the original phrase. In the US they "play hookey".
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/play_truant

I don't know why "play truant" went out of fashion and was replaced by
"truanted".

In Belfast it would be "mitched".
Apart from the obvious spelling mistake this definition is OK:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/defin...hin+%2Cmitched


or, for example,
'helicoptered' if she'd been transported by helicopter somewhere?

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Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)