An act of spontaneous repair or fabrication of an item or system sometimes used in a humorous or self deprecating fashion.
Solving a technical issue in a temporary manor until a permanent replacement can be acquired if that is even possible.
Usually accomplished without proper engineering knowledge or training, without proper materials and components, or without proper tools for the job at hand. More often lacking all three.
A skill typically employed by individuals who can be described as 'born engineers' or as being naturally gifted with a 'head for tinkering'. These individuals likely could have done well in the STEM fields if they ever had the resources or opportunity to attend the proper schooling or purchase the proper tools and training.
Commonly used in rural environments found in and around economically depressed areas near the Appalachian Mountains in the United States.
Synonymous with the term 'Redneck Engineering', or in urban environments 'Improvisational Engineering' or 'Jury-rigging'.
The products of Appalachian Engineering are sometimes, but not necessarily always, considered ramshackle or slapdash.
Sometimes used in conjunction with some variation of the phrase "Hold my beer, I got this".
When criticized the resulting products of Appalachian Engineering are defended with the phrase, "If it looks stupid but it works then it is not stupid", although it very well might be dangerous if you aren't careful with it.
Solving a technical issue in a temporary manor until a permanent replacement can be acquired if that is even possible.
Usually accomplished without proper engineering knowledge or training, without proper materials and components, or without proper tools for the job at hand. More often lacking all three.
A skill typically employed by individuals who can be described as 'born engineers' or as being naturally gifted with a 'head for tinkering'. These individuals likely could have done well in the STEM fields if they ever had the resources or opportunity to attend the proper schooling or purchase the proper tools and training.
Commonly used in rural environments found in and around economically depressed areas near the Appalachian Mountains in the United States.
Synonymous with the term 'Redneck Engineering', or in urban environments 'Improvisational Engineering' or 'Jury-rigging'.
The products of Appalachian Engineering are sometimes, but not necessarily always, considered ramshackle or slapdash.
Sometimes used in conjunction with some variation of the phrase "Hold my beer, I got this".
When criticized the resulting products of Appalachian Engineering are defended with the phrase, "If it looks stupid but it works then it is not stupid", although it very well might be dangerous if you aren't careful with it.
Noun:
"That is a mighty fine bit of appalachian engineering you've got there."
"She used her appalachian engineering skills and fixed that optical drive with a rubber band, and an eraser taken from a number two pencil."
"That is a mighty fine bit of appalachian engineering you've got there."
"She used her appalachian engineering skills and fixed that optical drive with a rubber band, and an eraser taken from a number two pencil."
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Palinphonics
Definition:
The applied science and engineering of Retrograde Acoustics (Reverse Speech). Derived from the Ancient Greek palin ("back" or "again") and phonics ("sound").
Unlike Pareidolia (where the brain hallucinates words in random noise) or simple Backmasking (hiding a recorded message), Palinphonics is the active practice of Phonetic Steganography. A Palinphonic Engineer intentionally sculpts the pronunciation, cadence, and glottal stops of a forward-spoken phrase so that it forms a completely different, intelligible message when subjected to temporal inversion (played backward).
This requires a mastery of "Phonetic Mirroring"—understanding that a hard "R" in the forward dimension becomes the attack of a vowel in the reverse dimension.
Example:
Professor: "How do you hide a brand name inside a normal sentence using Palinphonics?"
Engineer: "Watch this. I'm going to use the 'Cheese-Dealer Cipher.' If I pronounce the phrase 'SAY CHEESE TO DEALER' with specific micro-manipulations on the vowels, and then you spin the record backward, the phonetic output becomes 'REELest DJs'."
Forward: "Say Cheese To Dealer"
Reverse Decode: "REELest DJs"
Explanation:
"Dealer" (pronounced Deel-err) reverses to form the acoustic structure of "REEL-est."
"Cheese" (phonetic Cheez) reverses into Zeech, creating the sibilance for "DJs."
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Palinphonics
Definition:
The applied science and engineering of Retrograde Acoustics (Reverse Speech). Derived from the Ancient Greek palin ("back" or "again") and phonics ("sound").
Unlike Pareidolia (where the brain hallucinates words in random noise) or simple Backmasking (hiding a recorded message), Palinphonics is the active practice of Phonetic Steganography. A Palinphonic Engineer intentionally sculpts the pronunciation, cadence, and glottal stops of a forward-spoken phrase so that it forms a completely different, intelligible message when subjected to temporal inversion (played backward).
This requires a mastery of "Phonetic Mirroring"—understanding that a hard "R" in the forward dimension becomes the attack of a vowel in the reverse dimension.
Example:
Professor: "How do you hide a brand name inside a normal sentence using Palinphonics?"
Engineer: "Watch this. I'm going to use the 'Cheese-Dealer Cipher.' If I pronounce the phrase 'SAY CHEESE TO DEALER' with specific micro-manipulations on the vowels, and then you spin the record backward, the phonetic output becomes 'REELest DJs'."
Forward: "Say Cheese To Dealer"
Reverse Decode: "REELest DJs"
Explanation:
"Dealer" (pronounced Deel-err) reverses to form the acoustic structure of "REEL-est."
"Cheese" (phonetic Cheez) reverses into Zeech, creating the sibilance for "DJs."
Tags:
#Palinphonics #AudioEngineering #ReverseSpeech #REELestDJs #Steganography #SoundDesign #Linguistics #BackmasKiNG
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