re: #151 Nyet

So apart from propaganda, general writing and accidental or deliberate insults trade specific jargon can be pretty insulting. So many awful terms in my industry, Chinking the oven an awful term for slipping ceramic tiles into the cracks in a burnout oven. “Bombing” castings, a chemical stripping process. Hollywood sets have a host of terrible terms for certain things. Chinese the lights has to do with the barn door panels on lights, narrowing to s lit. Non ethnic, but dead cat or dead kitten is the term for the fluffy cover on a mic to cut wind noise.

Of course there was that pal of mine that openly talked of putting the Jew back in jewelry as a hard working Jewish subcontractor. NOT a term I would use! But the term may likely really be from jewels.