origins of "kludge"

[Pete Turnbull]

On Mar 30 2005, 16:27, Chad Fernandez wrote:

>  From watching JunkYard Wars, or Scrap Heap Challenge as it is called
in
> the UK, I thought Bodge was about the same as kludge, too.

Meanings tend to evolve with common usage.  Just as "kludge" is
becoming less derogatory in some circles, so "bodge" becomes more so,
especially as with "precision engineering", the art of the bodger (in
the sense of someone employed as such) disappears.  "Botch" still means
something that fails to work, "bodge" works, "kludge" works, but is
ugly.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
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