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    Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 13 Nov 2014

    I wish there were a less pretentious alternative to "bricoleur." It's an important idea but I can't bring myself to use that word.

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      1. Pierre A Fournier‏ @pafournier 13 Nov 2014
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        @paulg in French bricoleur doesn't sound pretentious at all.

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      1. ntoper‏ @ntoper 13 Nov 2014
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        @paulg funny considering lots of French people define themselves as hacker instead of bricoleur

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      1. Dakota LJ Ferguson Smith‏ @dakotasmith 13 Nov 2014
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        @paulg Words like bricoleur seem to get eventually downgraded by society to lower the value of the contributor see: tinkerer & esp. amatuer

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      1. Gordon Mohr  👁 👁‏ @gojomo 13 Nov 2014
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        @paulg misspell/anglicize a new coinage to dial-down the pretense: a brickoler practicing brickolage

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      1. #JeSuisGoogle+‏ @ProfJeffJarviss 13 Nov 2014
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        @paulg Makerista?

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      1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 13 Nov 2014
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        @paulg tinkerer cc: @pmarca

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      2. Noah Tye‏ @noahlt 13 Nov 2014
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        @paulg take @amac's lead

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      3. Alexander Macgillivray‏Verified account @amac 13 Nov 2014
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        @noahlt @paulg "tinkerer" (see @EdFelten's https://freedom-to-tinker.com/ ) is good but I concluded bricoleur is better.

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      1. Laurent Giroud‏ @laurentgiroud 16 Nov 2014
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        @paulg interestingly, bricoleur isn’t pretentious at all in French and actually rather modest: a tinkerer would say “oh I’m just bricoling”.

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      1. Tarjei‏ @oulipopo 13 Nov 2014
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        @paulg ... they were in dire need of a word, and that's what they found ... and used.

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      1. AX31‏ @ax31bz89tw47 13 Nov 2014
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        @paulg Bricoleur is definitely not pretentious in French

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      1. Karl Knutson‏ @reedrelay 13 Nov 2014
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        @paulg I assume that maker/hacker/tinker/macgyver are not specific enough?

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      1. Eugene Van den Bulke‏ @3kwa 13 Nov 2014
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        @paulg in French bricoleur is not pretentious at all, quite the opposite really.

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      1. Erik Van de Water‏ @ErikVDW1 13 Nov 2014
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        @paulg Well you just got me to google it. Thanks. Some audiences are better than others.

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      1. Liberty‏ @LibertyRPF 13 Nov 2014
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        @paulg do you find it pretentious just because it's French? Because to french-speakers, it's not more pretentious than, say, entrepreneur...

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      2. Ryan McCourt ❌‏ @MarcCountry 13 Nov 2014
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        @paulg The English word is "MacGyver."

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      3. YawarAmin.re‏ @yawaramin 14 Nov 2014
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        @MarcCountry @paulg how quickly people forgot MacGuyver. The epitome of a hacker. Deserves to run again to raise the national IQ.

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      1. Benjamin Joffe‏ @benjaminjoffe 13 Nov 2014
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        @paulg I guess obviously foreign words always sound so. Like "entrepreneur" ;)

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      2. Benjamin Joffe‏ @benjaminjoffe 13 Nov 2014
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        @paulg is "bricoleur" pretentious? Original meaning is somewhere between "tinkerer" and "maker".

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      3. Sebastien Provencher‏ @sebprovencher 13 Nov 2014
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        @benjaminjoffe In Quebec, we would say "patenteux". http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=2165085&langid=6 …

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