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From: "Jimmy Hess" <mysidia@gmail.com>
RJ45 is really an example of what was originally a misconception became so widespread, so universal, that reality has actually shifted so the misconception became reality. When was the last time you ever heard anyone say "8P8C connector?"
Joe public caught on to "RJ45", so now that word means something different in common usage than what it was specified to be. When was the last time you heard someone say 8P8C connector in reference to Ethernet?
WADR: horseshit. I, in fact, just wrote a cabling RFQ yesterday for a new building, and *I* write "8P8C male modular connector". So, in short: if you *actually need to be saying it*, you actually need to be saying it correctly, because you're talking to people who know the difference. They won't say anything, mind you, and you'll get what you want; they'll just think you're a clueless dilettante. Cheers, -- jr 'yes, I'm a prescriptivist[1]' a [1] The *point* of language is communication; this is impossible if words "mean what people want them to mean, no more, no less". -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274