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>I always bang on to my junior staff that their job was known as "analyst programmer" for a reason. I can't help but think about Tobias Fünke. Especially with
by carlmr 4y ago
>I always bang on to my junior staff that their job was known as "analyst programmer" for a reason.
I can't help but think about Tobias Fünke. Especially with you banging on your junior staff.
- OJFord 4y agoI suspect it's a British (perhaps commonwealth) colloquialism - 'to bang on [about something]' is to go on and on and on talking about it, with some implication of 'too much' or obsessiveness. (Also, notice it's 'bang on to' the staff, not 'bang on' them. That is, the staff are the indirect object; the thing which is being said - banged on about - is the direct object.)
- lifeisstillgood 4y agoYes, I bang on to my staff (talk endlessly to them) rather than bang my staff (have sex with them) ... or another colloquialism, to "bang my staff" which is a solitary activity that frankly you can guess from here.
- carlmr 4y agoI'm not sure you watched Arrested Development, but I was thinking about this scene where the character says he sees himself as the world's first analyst and therapist, analrapist for short. He always says things that are non-sexual but have an almost sexual ring to them. And while I did understand the bang on to from context, it was exactly the kind of thing he would be saying. Together with the analyst and programmer, analpro for short, or something of the sort.
- OJFord 4y agoAnd I explained it because (as a native BrE speaker as I suspected the one you replied to was) it didn't have any such ring to me at all, it read perfectly naturally. (I have seen Arrested Development fwiw. Didn't care for it, but I've seen it.)
- etblg 4y agoThe world's first combined analyst and programmer -- an Analrammer for short.
- carlmr 4y agoNice, I was thinking Analpro, but that's also good!