@paulg in French bricoleur doesn't sound pretentious at all.
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@paulg funny considering lots of French people define themselves as hacker instead of bricoleurThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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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. amatuerThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg misspell/anglicize a new coinage to dial-down the pretense: a brickoler practicing brickolageThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg Makerista?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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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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@paulg interestingly, bricoleur isn’t pretentious at all in French and actually rather modest: a tinkerer would say “oh I’m just bricoling”.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg ... they were in dire need of a word, and that's what they found ... and used.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg Bricoleur is definitely not pretentious in FrenchThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg I assume that maker/hacker/tinker/macgyver are not specific enough?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg in French bricoleur is not pretentious at all, quite the opposite really.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg Well you just got me to google it. Thanks. Some audiences are better than others.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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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...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg The English word is "MacGyver." -
@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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@paulg I guess obviously foreign words always sound so. Like "entrepreneur" ;)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg is "bricoleur" pretentious? Original meaning is somewhere between "tinkerer" and "maker". -
@benjaminjoffe In Quebec, we would say "patenteux". http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=2165085&langid=6 …
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