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Out of curiosity, do you have any idea how the term "brick nogging" came about? To me that's a vertical PCB mount connector, and I cannot fathom the tortured tr

Out of curiosity, do you have any idea how the term "brick nogging" came about? To me that's a vertical PCB mount connector, and I cannot fathom the tortured translation path...

Terr_ 4y ago
I don't know enough to confirm it, but one potential explanation from a forum thread [0]: > As a native Chinese speaker, "brick nogging" is gibberish and completely incomprehensible to me. :-DD I was curious and just looked it up, apparently it was a mistranslation of "立贴". > "立" means "standing" or "vertical", and "贴" is the short-hand for "贴片", which means "pick-and-place" or "SMD", so it just means "vertical SMD". > One thing to know about Chinese is that one can create almost entirely arbitrary abbreviations and short-hands by combining characters from different words, a bit similar to Soviet and Russian government agency names like GosPlan, RosCosmos, or RosKomNadzor. > The result is often not found in the dictionary, or by coincidence, they may clash with another existing but obscure word in the dictionary. In both cases, machine translation would produce incomprehensible results. For example, in this case it happens to form a word from architectural history. [0] https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/where-does-all-the-weird-chinese-component-terminology-come-from/ https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/where-does-all-the-weird-...
crote 4y ago
Honestly, at this point I am just happy there is a well-defined name for it. Something like "vertical" could also be used to refer to a connector which is still aligned parallel to the board, but rotated 90 degrees so the insertion slot is oriented perpendicular to the board. This is usually called "side insertion", like [0]. Figuring out what stuff is called in the world of electronics is a surprisingly large part of the job. Part selection gets really difficult if you do not have a specific part number yet, but only have a generic concept you are looking for. [0]: https://www.lcsc.com/product-detail/USB-Connectors_Jing-Extension-of-the-Electronic-Co-918-518K2023D50001_C399934.html https://www.lcsc.com/product-detail/USB-Connectors_Jing-Exte...

Out of curiosity, do you have any idea how the term "brick nogging" came about? To me that's a vertical PCB mount connector, and I cannot fathom the tortured translation path...

Terr_ 4y ago

I don't know enough to confirm it, but one potential explanation from a forum thread [0]: > As a native Chinese speaker, "brick nogging" is gibberish and completely incomprehensible to me. :-DD I was curious and just looked it up, apparently it was a mistranslation of "立贴". > "立" means "standing" or "vertical", and "贴" is the short-hand for "贴片", which means "pick-and-place" or "SMD", so it just means "vertical SMD". > One thing to know about Chinese is that one can create almost entirely arbitrary abbreviations and short-hands by combining characters from different words, a bit similar to Soviet and Russian government agency names like GosPlan, RosCosmos, or RosKomNadzor. > The result is often not found in the dictionary, or by coincidence, they may clash with another existing but obscure word in the dictionary. In both cases, machine translation would produce incomprehensible results. For example, in this case it happens to form a word from architectural history. [0] https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/where-does-all-the-weird-chinese-component-terminology-come-from/ https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/where-does-all-the-weird-...

crote 4y ago

Honestly, at this point I am just happy there is a well-defined name for it. Something like "vertical" could also be used to refer to a connector which is still aligned parallel to the board, but rotated 90 degrees so the insertion slot is oriented perpendicular to the board. This is usually called "side insertion", like [0]. Figuring out what stuff is called in the world of electronics is a surprisingly large part of the job. Part selection gets really difficult if you do not have a specific part number yet, but only have a generic concept you are looking for. [0]: https://www.lcsc.com/product-detail/USB-Connectors_Jing-Extension-of-the-Electronic-Co-918-518K2023D50001_C399934.html https://www.lcsc.com/product-detail/USB-Connectors_Jing-Exte...