It is easy to remember the difference between sill and stool. You can sit on a stool. Not too many people cling to the exterior of a building to sit on the narrow ledges typical of window sills.
It’s more important that the terms used on the drawings and in the specifications are consistent, than if they’re noted as “sill” or “stool”.
Keep in mind, that if someone has problems with tegularity, they also likely will have problems with stools.
Perhaps, as champions of “building knowledge”, we should be educating our colleagues and co-workers as to proper terminology? It’s always a good thing when we all use words with a complete understanding of their meaning. It definitely would help forestall misunderstanding. It’s fine to play around with word meanings, but maybe we should be using and teaching the right meaning.
Dave, that has got to be the best specifier joke of all time. Thanks for the laugh!
Lynn, I’m sure you and most specifiers have taken advantage of the many “learning moments” presented in the course of a project to explain a variety of things, which, unfortunately, are considered of no value in school.
Going the other direction, specifiers can no doubt learn much about the interrelationships of multi-planar brutalism and disruptive defenestration from any new graduate.
Sheldon, you had to look those up, didn’t you?
Not the individual terms, Ron, but if such a thing as multi-planar brutalism exists, I don’t know what it is. As for defenestration, I’m certain it’s always disruptive.
Defenestration definitely is disruptive. It is the act of throwing someone or something out of a window. The term was coined for one incident: the “Defenestration of Prague,” May 21, 1618, when two Catholic deputies to the Bohemian national assembly and a secretary were tossed out the window (into a moat) of the castle of Hradshin by Protestant radicals. It marked the start of the Thirty Years War.
Yep. I don’t recall when I came across the term, but it seems like it should mean “removal of windows” rather than throwing something through them. Yet another confusion of terminology!
I thought everyone had a list (short or otherwise) of candidates for defenestration.