Re: [YAEUT] Lexical variation survey

Ph. D. wrote:
> Tristan McLeay wrote:
>>
>> Indeed garbage trucks are called that here too (where they collect the
>> rubbish); the people who operate them are generally called "garbos" or
>> "garbologists" in jest. ("Garbo", like "ambo", is a word that doesn't
>> really have an expanded form that I can think of.)
>
> In the United States, they're called "garbagemen."
>
> Back in the 1970s, they started to refer to themselves
> as "Sanitation Engineers." Now there already was a group of real
> engineers called Sanitation Engineers. They were the ones who designed
> sewage treatment plants. So they had to change their name to
> "Environmental Engineers."
Blech!

To me, an "Environmental Engineer" is the technician who works on the
life support system aboard a starship or an orbiting space station, or
inside a pressure dome on some moon somewhere.

But, I admit, I watch way too much space opera.  :D :D :D

>
> --Ph. D.

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