I have been severely rebuked by a gentleman who wishes to be known as an "attendee" at the Birmingham Workshop. He assures me that his nautical ambitions are zero and that he has never been on a punt in his life.
Pity he is not a reader of this list, nor of dictionaries it would seem. There is nothing nautical about a punt, dangerous on the briny. This is a serious matter. Over the years the term "punter" has been used for the non-traders, non-Quanta committee members who attend workshops. It does have derogatory connotations, but I find "attendee" far to formal a word. If there is anything deprecatory about the term it is of the traders, suggesting as it does that anything on offer is a bit wager, will it work or not. At 14:16 08/10/2007 +0100, you wrote: >An important part of the planning of QL is 21 was a "lady's programme". On >the website I wanted to use the term "partner programme", which I felt was >the better modern usage. JM objected to this. Sarah Gilpin held us >figuratively apart and tactfully suggested "guest programme", which is what >we used, Suggests to me she or the guest of indeterminate gender was on their own, a game of patience perhaps ? Or was "partner programme" a dating game ? _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
