#uncommon word

[englishmoribund]

Demystifying "Stovepiped": A Visual Word for Talking About Siloed Information

Have you ever heard of the term "stovepiping"? No, it's not a term for making pipes that run to your stove, but rather a term used to describe a problematic communication issue. In this post, we'll dive into the history and definition of stovepiping and provide a silly example sentence to help you understand it better.

Etymology

The term "stovepiping" originally referred to the vertical pipes that carried smoke from wood-burning stoves to chimneys in homes and buildings. The resemblance of these pipes to a stovepipe hat - a type of tall, cylindrical hat worn by men in the 19th century - is also cited as a possible inspiration for the term.

Over time, the term was adopted as a metaphor for the flow of information within organizations. Just as smoke could only travel through a stovepipe in a single direction, information could only be transmitted within specific channels or silos, leading to a lack of communication and collaboration across different departments or individuals.

Today, the term "stovepiping" is often used to describe the negative consequences of such a compartmentalized approach to information sharing, such as inefficiency, missed opportunities, and a fragmented view of the overall picture.

History

Stovepiping became a popular term during the Cold War, where intelligence agencies were criticized for their inability to share information with each other. This siloed information sharing led to missed opportunities and intelligence failures.

Since then, the term has been applied to a wide range of situations in which information is siloed or compartmentalized. Stovepiping can occur within any organization, from small businesses to large corporations.

Definition

Stovepiping is a communication issue that occurs when information is siloed or compartmentalized within a specific department or individual. This can lead to a lack of sharing or communication with other relevant parties, resulting in a fragmented view of the overall picture and hinder decision-making processes.

Example Sentence

Here's a silly example sentence to help illustrate the concept of stovepiping: "Due to the stovepiped nature of our government agencies, it can be difficult to get a clear picture of how policies are being implemented across different departments."

Conclusion

Stovepiping is a communication issue that can have serious consequences for organizations. It's important to ensure that information is shared effectively and efficiently to avoid missed opportunities and failures. Understanding the history and definition of stovepiping can help organizations identify and address this issue.

[uncanny-tranny]

"If men got periods/needed abortion/got ovarian or breast cancer, those resources would be handed out like candy! They'd be more plentiful than ATMs!!"

You mean perisex cis men. You mean perisex cis men. Say what you mean.

I'm a trans man. I avoid all medical care because ninety percent of my doctors have not treated me properly because I am a trans man. I am acutely aware that doctors would be more than happy to not provide me care on the basis of my being trans, even if it costed my life.

Every time I so much as think about the doctors, I'm reminded of men like Robert Eads - of how my care is at the whim of the opinions a doctor has about my life. And because of my own past negative experiences, I hesitate to open my patient portal to schedule an appointment. When I have gotten a good doctor, it's not been the rule, it's the exception. I have a doctor right now who I'm lucky to see, who actually treats me like a human being. I'm celebrating that a doctor finally treats me like a person.

If you want to group all men as being the same, I hope you're willing to have that blood on your hands. Because that care is routinely kept away from men, and it's a real, tangible, systemic issue.

I don't talk about this because I see being trans as this negative thing, but because I want to continue living and I want my trans siblings to live. I understand the frustration that people have who say this - it's another systemic issue that also costs lives. However, I am alarmed at the trend of... forgetting or perhaps erasing that this is still an issue for men, that we literally aren't treated the same as somebody like a cis perisex woman. No doctor has ever treated me like one, and of that I know for a fact. And this is a simple fix - be clear about who you mean when you talk about a group of people or a specific phenomenon. That applies when you are talking about any group of people because, generally, these overgeneralizations will be useless because it can't apply to everyone, and might just hurt a group of people you may not even be intending on hurting.

[vero-niche]

what's bóbita ? because you use that frequently

like my first reflex was to search it on google and what came up is Spanish, so i'm like, okay maybe you don't mean "little silly one" even though it makes a LOT of sense to use that word here so i added "Hungarian" to my search which made me even more confused because two things came up; my dear and love Wiktionary who said that it's linked to fucking bird or plants and this fucker

and like, i'm there, watching a children's song (that's great to be honest), and the only conclusion i have is that y'all saw a word in Spanish, thought "wow it's really fucking cool" and used it ???? which, totally valid, every language goes and looks around and takes words that think it's cool and uses it, but Spanish ?????

spanish hater here i got forced to learn spanish for seven years and i can only say my name and insult someone

hdhdhshdtdttszs oh this is amazing, didnt know bóbita meant that in spanish 💞

yes it is in a children's song (originally a poem by weöres sándor) but it is also a legit valid name you can give to a girl, because of this very poem. the first verse of the poem goes like "bóbita, bóbita is dancing / angels are sitting around her / armies of frogs are playing the flute / armies of locusts are playing the violin." it is a very popular work that most hungarian kids are familiar with.

and i use it a lot bc that's my dear mutual @g0om's chosen name 😊

[mattysmarvel]

Charles and Carlos via The Today Show’s Tiktok

[please-let-this-work-oh-my-god]

1.9 POSTER 1.9 POSTER 1.9 POSTER

[rochellehassan]

The Spell for Unraveling (book 3 of The Buried and the Bound trilogy) has a cover! behold!

i think this is my favorite one yet! i love the stained glass background so much <3 the artist is helen mask, who's done an amazing job on all three covers for this trilogy.

[apollos-olives]

english is so dumb i have to search up what words mean every week

[eroticcannibal]

"80% of homeschooling resources are produced by fundamentalist cults" is an absolutely stupid brain dead thing to say. Saying "Homeschooling resources" as if it means something. Yes something labelled specifically to appeal to people in fundamentalist cults will be made by them. Everyone else is using EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES.

[beanieman]

I hate how spellchecking programs will mark down your work for using words that are "too big" or "too uncommon." For multiple reasons, seeing a word you've never seen before and then using context clues to define its meaning is a good thing.

For one, you can't learn what a word means if you don't know it exists. People expand their vocabulary by seeing new words and going, "Oh! I didn't know there was a word for that. That's neat." And two, it's important for media literacy that someone can look for context clues.

Someone should be able to figure out what the word "accumulate" means from seeing it in the sentence "She wanted to accumulate as much money as possible." And if big words are discouraged, then people are less likely to learn that skill because it's not being actively taught. Which is a blow to media literacy overall.

To further prove my point, I put this post in Grammerly and I was given a 73% readability score. The words they docked off points for were "accumulate," "uncommon," "vocabulary," "discouraged," and, most ironically, "literacy."

[gennsoup]

Where does the music end and love begin?

Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

[everysongineverykey]

i dunno it kinda bothers me sometimes to see characters who are referred to with they/them pronouns in games described as "ambiguously gendered" or "gender left unclear" or "gender unstated" by fans and stuff like. yeah absolutely they are sometimes that. sometimes the creator had a gender in mind for them while creating them and just didn't think to talk about it in the game. but also, like. sometimes characters can just be nonbinary? and it makes me kinda sad that everyone's first reaction to they/them pronouns in games is "oh, they have a binary gender, it's just up to the player/not stated in-game".

[detectivehole]

its not so much that tumblr humor translates well to irl for some reason bc in a lot of ways it very much does not. its that the tumblr accent is very real its just not noticeable enough for anyone unfamiliar to think its anything but humor

[st4rstudent]

i feel somewhat responsible for this, even if i’m not the one saying these things. I’m genuinely so sorry.

No need to apologize! It's not one singular person doing it and truth be told I don't think it's a large majority that thinks that (albeit the ones that do are quite vocal). I didn't mean to upset anyone or anything when complaining about it, I was just letting off some steam.

Having a yap session under the cut sorry I feel like rambling under your ask anon.

Admittedly, I do think there are reasonings for people thinking this way. A lot of the focus with Clash has been on the cogs, especially after the 1.3 update. Which I can't say I blame them! Managers were something new and exciting and (from what I can tell) really separated them from the other servers. I don't blame them for wanting to put focus on that because that was their thing. Alongside other things, but majorly when you hear Clash the managers are mentioned in someway shape or form. But as we all know, toons ended up taking the short stick from this. This isn't helped by the gameplay itself, being mainly a fetch-quest deal so you often only talk to npcs once or twice unless if they're repeated ones and the taskline wasn't entirely accessible on the wiki for a while (shoutout to the wiki maintainers. The taskline script is a savior). Which I'm quite excited to see if they deal with this issue with the rewrite. I imagine they will, but anyways. Social media posts would often contain more managers than toons, which I also believe they're starting to fix. And ontop of this, I believe most of the team in the early era of the sever is gone, so there's been some stuff lost in the change. So yeah, dialogue/writing has been kind of rocky. AGAIN- I am completely aware of the rewrite going on and I am not judging them harshly based off of their current state. I'm very appreciative of the fact that they took the time to listen and are focusing on trying to fix it up. And then there's also fandom mischaracterization- especially of the cogs. Forgive me for mentioning mischaracterization because normally I wouldn't really care (I've mischaracterized characters before..especially in my younger years. I think it's just a process of learning an having fun and I hate to limit anyone because of it). With that being said, there's a lot of baby-fying and coddling of the managers. Especially with those who have more 'sympathetic' stories (Misty, Chip, Winston specifically). Don't get me wrong, I like these characters and I can appreciate the story they're trying to tell, but I feel like so many people will hear their dialogue and then misplace their anger. People get mad at Bessie for trying to protect HER lighthouse or at the Elders for trying to keep YOTT safe (lets not forget Winston was there to brainwash toons). Yes, yes technically there would've been better ways to do it but consider this: The toons are scared. Their homes, stores, lives are being taken over by a big corporation that has more resources that they do. They don't have the privilege of waiting, seeing, and gathering. And then people forget that the company has such a huge role in both toons and cogs lives. If you're mad over the mistreatment of Misty or the fact that Winston is still in the dungeon, your anger should be directed at the company who doesn't care. I may be completely wrong in saying this, but I feel like the stories with almost all of the managers is a reflection of the company. The toons are only trying to protect themself and their environments and yet this seems to go forgotten when people start bashing them. And of course, I'd consider myself a toon guy so me saying all this and complaining may come off as "I HATE the cogs and everyone who posts only about them!" and for clarification that's not true. You all know how much I like that little brain thing. The cogs are interesting, their designs are fun, I don't blame people for liking them because I do too. I just wish that the thought process behind so many of these discussions wasn't so cog focused because I believe that this anger at the toons for, RIGHTFULLY, defending themselves helps push this mischaracterization of them as a whole. That they're mean, boring, unlikeable while the opposite is true. Yes there are some, what I'd consider, "filler" dialogue from the shopkeepers. This is just because of the gameplay. But there are some funny and cute moments with them if people would just listen and read.

Which also brings me into another point: people skip the dialogue. I've caught myself doing this before (on my first account. I have 4 accounts total, so I reread the dialogue on like 3 of them). But people will complain about lack of toon personalities while doing this. It's like reading through a comic book, only looking at the drawings, and then complaining because there "isn't a storyline". Luckily, there's been efforts to keep track of the dialogue on the wiki but I doubt a lot of people are going through and reading the entire script. It just feels very disingenuous to criticize the dialogue when you haven't even read it. Likewise, people don't seem to read the blogposts either. This is both from a dialogue aspect and from an update aspect (people continuously asking about hammerspace/mix-and-match under unrelated posts).

[skunkes]

video game i cannot even play has inflicted me with 2 characters and both specific and general details about them that have harmed me with pinpoint accuracy regarding my own ocs. and tastes.

[tj-crochets]

Hey y'all! One more weird question for you, then it's back to craft updates. Well, okay, one more post with a few questions - if you sleep wrong and wake up sore/in pain, is that soreness A. your whole body B. bad muscle tension/knots and C. does it cause muscle spasms D. unrelated to previous injuries - also, does that soreness last more than a day? - does eating an truly absurd amount of salt significantly reduce muscle tension for you? Basically I am trying to figure out if sleeping wrong and it causing like multiple days of bad muscle pain and issues is common, or if it's something wrong with me or my bed*, and if the ridiculous amount of salt fixed the problem or if it was just a coincidence of timing, because if it's a salt thing it tells me which doctor I should talk to about it (the endocrinologist) Wait wait one more question: do your muscles ever get tense to the point where they do not want to function correctly, like "legs buckle out from underneath you" tense? Okay I was wrong, one more. Do you get muscle spasms in your temples, and if so, do they make you dizzy? *I mean I know there's something physically wrong with me. Several somethings. I am just trying to figure out if this in particular is related or just happens to everyone

[velaraffricate]

another really cool thing: the plural suffix -saa ends up looking like an infix in some cases due to vowel deletion and metathesis. *inqwa, *inqwasaa > ivə, izva; *kwunkaa, *kwunkaasaa > kuga, kuzga; *khaari, *khaarisaa > kaale, kaasla. seeing irregularity arise spontaneously as a natural consequence of sound changes is neverending fun. i spend so much time just running random words thru the algorithm and seeing how they change with different affixes