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Phillip Blanchard
 Post subject: 'Creatives' Wanted
PostPosted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 12:47 am 
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South Africa's hottest celebrity news mag is looking for an experienced copy editor to join its eclectic team of creatives at heat Towers in Sandton. If you're a passionate English boffin who is proud to know where every apostrophe and comma should go - we want to meet you! (Bizcommunity)

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Wayne Countryman
 Post subject: Re: 'Creatives' Wanted
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Do you deny being "a passionate English boffin"?

[Not I have any idea what that means]
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Wayne Countryman
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Depending on the source, a boffin is a research scientist. Or, simply an expert in something.
But geekiness seems to be a part of this British slang.

Perhaps someone who speaks English English, or any English dialect better than I do, will enlighten us.
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trimtofit
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From OED:

3. Brit. colloq. In weakened use: an intellectual, an academic, a clever person; an expert in a particular field; esp. such a person perceived as lacking practical or social skills. Cf. EGG-HEAD n.
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Wayne Countryman
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Thanks, trim.

Clearly the "esp." aspect doesn't apply to Our Charming Fearless Leader.
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