I am involved in planning for three TAPPI conferences. I am on the technical program committee for the Nanotechnology Conference (Espoo, Finland, September 27-29, 2010 TAPPI Nanotechnology) and the Advanced Coating Fundamentals Symposium. (Munich, Germany, October 11-13, 2010 TAPPI ACFS). I am also chairing the technical program committee for the Coating and Graphic Arts Division's contribution to the 2011 Papercon. The call for papers will be released soon for Papercon.
We are trying something different in planning for the Papercon technical program. We have put together the session structure and will work to fill it. It is designed to meet our conference attendees needs. We will also have an interactive poster session to provide opportunities for networking. Stay tuned for the call for papers!
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Proper English
I have a bit of a complaint about the use of the English language found in papers, presentations, articles and memos when the subject is the paper industry. This is a general pet peeve that I have in working within the paper industry or should I say paperindustry? As you just noticed I put these two commonly found words next to each other together. I am sure you didn't like it very much. Many words are being put together in reports and such in the paper industry. I really don't like it. It is hard to read. I wonder if there are other industries that do this as well?
A few more examples where the English language is hacked by putting words together that don't belong together are basecoating, topcoating, coatweight, papermachine, freesheet, topcoat,basecoat, lightweight, heavyweight, lightscatter and so many others. To me why not then extend this to other commonly found words that are next to each other like rampup, beenresolved, greasebarrier, oxygenbarrier, waterbarrier, paperindustry, sizepress, milltrial, pilotcoater, tropicalconditions, salesgroup, pigmenttechnology, technicalguide, particlesize, conferencecall and so on. Ugly and hard to read isn't it?
So please refrain from doing this pet peeve of mine (or is it petpeeve?). Here is what I prefer in place of putting two words together to create a new one:
- top coat
- base coat
- base paper
- light scatter
- coat weight
- free sheet
- light weight
- heavy weight
- paper machine
Drop some comments if you have a different opinion or are in support of this one.
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