2Far ★ Posted October 15, 2018 Share #1 Posted October 15, 2018 At first glance, how do you pronounce "unionized"? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prophet Zacharia Posted October 15, 2018 Share #2 Posted October 15, 2018 8 minutes ago, 2Far said: At first glance, how do you pronounce "unionized"? I’m horrible with phonetic spelling, but yoon-yun-ized, as in workers, not atoms with added or subtracted electrons. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted October 15, 2018 Share #3 Posted October 15, 2018 Something about the union of unionized atoms being electronifying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted October 15, 2018 Share #4 Posted October 15, 2018 yoon yun ized 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prophet Zacharia Posted October 15, 2018 Share #5 Posted October 15, 2018 Just now, jsharr said: yoon yun ized Copy cat. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted October 15, 2018 Share #6 Posted October 15, 2018 'Conscripted' As in, conscripted in the Union Army. I'm listening to a Grant bio... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted October 15, 2018 Share #7 Posted October 15, 2018 3 minutes ago, Prophet Zacharia said: Copy cat. So I agree with you. Is that so bad? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prophet Zacharia Posted October 15, 2018 Share #8 Posted October 15, 2018 1 minute ago, jsharr said: So I agree with you. Is that so bad? No, you are wise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted October 15, 2018 Share #9 Posted October 15, 2018 38 minutes ago, 2Far said: At first glance, how do you pronounce "unionized"? At first glance, is there a second pronunciation? I'd think we'd need a hyphen for un-ionized???? Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentonMakes Posted October 15, 2018 Share #10 Posted October 15, 2018 Yoon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prophet Zacharia Posted October 15, 2018 Share #11 Posted October 15, 2018 2 minutes ago, Razors Edge said: At first glance, is there a second pronunciation? I'd think we'd need a hyphen for un-ionized???? Tom So you’re the kind of person who can’t follow simple instructions? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted October 15, 2018 Share #12 Posted October 15, 2018 3 minutes ago, Prophet Zacharia said: So you’re the kind of person who can’t follow simple instructions? That's why he is the perpetual n00b. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted October 15, 2018 Share #13 Posted October 15, 2018 Yoonse guys don’t know what it’s like to be unionized. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prophet Zacharia Posted October 15, 2018 Share #14 Posted October 15, 2018 Just now, Longjohn said: Yoonse guys don’t know what it’s like to be unionized. I am often not fully charged on a Monday morning. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2Far ★ Posted October 15, 2018 Author Share #15 Posted October 15, 2018 7 minutes ago, Longjohn said: Yoonse guys don’t know what it’s like to be unionized. I don't know about that, I'm a pretty stable guy, even if I have to say so myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Page Turner Posted October 15, 2018 Share #16 Posted October 15, 2018 ...I been a union thug, so I guess that means I'm a terrible person. The dog likes me, though. (That might just be because he wants to go for a walk now. ) 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Further Posted October 15, 2018 Share #17 Posted October 15, 2018 8 hours ago, 2Far said: "unionized"? Good... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted October 16, 2018 Share #18 Posted October 16, 2018 8 hours ago, TrentonMakes said: Yoon. Yutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
12string Posted October 16, 2018 Share #19 Posted October 16, 2018 I pronounce it "unionized". Unless I mean the other word, then it's "unionized". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
az_cyclist Posted October 16, 2018 Share #20 Posted October 16, 2018 close to be retired. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2Far ★ Posted October 16, 2018 Author Share #21 Posted October 16, 2018 38 minutes ago, az_cyclist said: close to be retired. Running on those Italian racing slicks called "Baldinos"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
az_cyclist Posted October 17, 2018 Share #22 Posted October 17, 2018 21 hours ago, 2Far said: Running on those Italian racing slicks called "Baldinos"? nah, still running Continental 4000 SIIs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickinMD ★ Posted October 17, 2018 Share #23 Posted October 17, 2018 I'm a chemist with a graduate degree from IIT, but I may never have called anything un-ionized, though it's a good word. I just called it neutral! Water, etc. can be deionized. But a solution that isn't ionic is generally called nonpolar or nonelectrolytic. On the other hand, since I spent most of my working career as a public school teacher, I was unionized and spent some years as my school's union rep. In Maryland, teachers do not have the right to strike and when, in the '80's, the state pointed out the State Teachers Pension was too high to be sustainable, the teachers unions quickly voted to reduce the pension benefits going forward. Now, with the teachers and local systems contributing 14.65% of salary to the pension, it's said that if an incompetent manager ran the fund, it wouldn't run out of money for at least 40 years. We also get no benefits from the pension - low-cost but near-Cadillac retiree health insurance is subsidized by the working teachers taking a hit in pay when contract negotiations are done. Working teachers will never stop supporting it because they know they'll get the same huge-company-low-rate and subsidized insurance when they retire, whereas states that pay such benefits could decide to stop them. So our system works for me! So we don't have as much confrontation between the teachers unions and the school boards and governments in Maryland compared to most states except in some places where the pay is particularly low - like Baltimore City where teaching is so stressful that they can't find enough applicants and 10%-15% of the teachers are recruited from the Philippines. They should all get combat pay there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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