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Re: [OM] OT: Bumper Snickers

Subject: Re: [OM] OT: Bumper Snickers
From: Jez Cunningham <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 10:58:53 +0100
+1 appreciation.


On 21 April 2014 04:09, Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Indeed sir. I'm taking offence at all this, having tried to inject a
> little proper vocabulary into the list.
>
> 'Custom'  or far, far worse, 'customized' (with a zed) is something
> associated with things like motorcycles and chop shops and appears to mean,
> "we had a little fun rebuilding and repainting this heap of s**t to look
> seriously peculiar and now we're going to try and sell it off to you, once
> the cable show episode is in the can.
> 'Bespoke' has overtones of decent tweed tailoring and peat smoke and
> Purdeys and coachbuilding and means, "we made this to fit you, to your
> request, measurements and requirements..…Sir. Let us know if any minor
> adjustments are necessary, the next time you are up. Where would like us to
> send the account, if I might be so presumptuous?"
>
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> www.soultheft.com
>
> Author/Publisher:
> The SLR Compendium:
> revised edition -
> http://blur.by/19Hb8or
> The TLR Compendium
> http://blur.by/1eDpqN7
>
>
>
> On 21/04/2014, at 12:35 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
>
> > I don’t know why you use that term for “bespoke”, Ed.  It’s a much older
> word than “custom” in that context, and quite a bit more descriptive.
>
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