Third Wave vocabulary... - Barista Exchange2024-03-28T17:11:28Zhttps://www.baristaexchange.com/forum/topics/third-wave-vocabulary?commentId=1688216%3AComment%3A425605&feed=yes&xn_auth=noMike Cannon said:Look to Star…tag:www.baristaexchange.com,2009-04-10:1688216:Comment:4272312009-04-10T20:37:25.740Zchistopher joshua rusuhttps://www.baristaexchange.com/profile/chistopherjoshuarusu
<cite>Mike Cannon said:</cite><blockquote cite="http://www.baristaexchange.com/forum/topics/third-wave-vocabulary#1688216Comment426507"><div>Look to Starbucks if you wish an accurate example of the bastardization of a word. The examples you've given are simply abbreviated forms of the original word and are still semantically correct. There is no ambiguity when I hear or say 'Spro', 'Cap', or whatever. How you've drawn a connection between a lack of appreciation for coffee culture and history…</div>
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<cite>Mike Cannon said:</cite><blockquote cite="http://www.baristaexchange.com/forum/topics/third-wave-vocabulary#1688216Comment426507"><div>Look to Starbucks if you wish an accurate example of the bastardization of a word. The examples you've given are simply abbreviated forms of the original word and are still semantically correct. There is no ambiguity when I hear or say 'Spro', 'Cap', or whatever. How you've drawn a connection between a lack of appreciation for coffee culture and history with the proliferation of new slang within the industry is... not apparent to me at all. Kind of sounds like you're being a fuddy-duddy (slang circa 1904). ;)</div>
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Touche! Look to Starbucks if you wish…tag:www.baristaexchange.com,2009-04-10:1688216:Comment:4265072009-04-10T05:26:49.900ZMike Cannonhttps://www.baristaexchange.com/profile/MikeCannon
Look to Starbucks if you wish an accurate example of the bastardization of a word. The examples you've given are simply abbreviated forms of the original word and are still semantically correct. There is no ambiguity when I hear or say 'Spro', 'Cap', or whatever. How you've drawn a connection between a lack of appreciation for coffee culture and history with the proliferation of new slang within the industry is... not apparent to me at all. Kind of sounds like you're being a fuddy-duddy (slang…
Look to Starbucks if you wish an accurate example of the bastardization of a word. The examples you've given are simply abbreviated forms of the original word and are still semantically correct. There is no ambiguity when I hear or say 'Spro', 'Cap', or whatever. How you've drawn a connection between a lack of appreciation for coffee culture and history with the proliferation of new slang within the industry is... not apparent to me at all. Kind of sounds like you're being a fuddy-duddy (slang circa 1904). ;) I'm not saying that I want to…tag:www.baristaexchange.com,2009-04-10:1688216:Comment:4263262009-04-10T01:24:10.474ZJonathan Jarrowhttps://www.baristaexchange.com/profile/JonathanJarrow
I'm not saying that I want to be a classic Italian cafe. I'm sure that their country is beautiful and their language romantic.<br />
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The point here is not how lazy Americans are, but how I dislike the modern slang. That's all.<br />
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<cite>Joshua "Yeshi" Longsdorf said:</cite><blockquote cite="http://www.baristaexchange.com/forum/topics/third-wave-vocabulary?page=1&commentId=1688216%3AComment%3A426317&x=1#1688216Comment426317"><div>Yes we are that lazy, we call french fries or pommes frites-fries,…</div>
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I'm not saying that I want to be a classic Italian cafe. I'm sure that their country is beautiful and their language romantic.<br />
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The point here is not how lazy Americans are, but how I dislike the modern slang. That's all.<br />
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<cite>Joshua "Yeshi" Longsdorf said:</cite><blockquote cite="http://www.baristaexchange.com/forum/topics/third-wave-vocabulary?page=1&commentId=1688216%3AComment%3A426317&x=1#1688216Comment426317"><div>Yes we are that lazy, we call french fries or pommes frites-fries, bicycles-bikes, caffe latte-latte, caffe or caffe espresso-espresso the list goes on. If you order just a latte in Italy you get milk. We don't actually use any of the proper names anyways so were not really bastardizing them by making them faster in a work environment.</div>
</blockquote> Yes we are that lazy, we call…tag:www.baristaexchange.com,2009-04-10:1688216:Comment:4263172009-04-10T01:08:48.652ZJoshua Longsdorfhttps://www.baristaexchange.com/profile/Yeshi
Yes we are that lazy, we call french fries or pommes frites-fries, bicycles-bikes, caffe latte-latte, caffe or caffe espresso-espresso the list goes on. If you order just a latte in Italy you get milk. We don't actually use any of the proper names anyways so were not really bastardizing them by making them faster in a work environment.
Yes we are that lazy, we call french fries or pommes frites-fries, bicycles-bikes, caffe latte-latte, caffe or caffe espresso-espresso the list goes on. If you order just a latte in Italy you get milk. We don't actually use any of the proper names anyways so were not really bastardizing them by making them faster in a work environment. Are we that lazy as americans…tag:www.baristaexchange.com,2009-04-09:1688216:Comment:4260372009-04-09T21:05:39.110ZHenryhttps://www.baristaexchange.com/profile/Henry
Are we that lazy as americans that we can't say "espresso" anymore and have to shorten it to spro?
Are we that lazy as americans that we can't say "espresso" anymore and have to shorten it to spro? I fully realize this Josh. Th…tag:www.baristaexchange.com,2009-04-09:1688216:Comment:4259022009-04-09T19:21:58.202ZJonathan Jarrowhttps://www.baristaexchange.com/profile/JonathanJarrow
I fully realize this Josh. There is certainly a massive difference between the American and the classic Italian versions of what coffee is and should be. Also, I'm not assuming that people don't know the origins of these words, but that the history of the words are being lost in the slang.<br />
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In this situation I'm more irked by the coffee professionals using this slang than customers. Just cause it seems that these people ought to know better. That said, I must also say that there is really…
I fully realize this Josh. There is certainly a massive difference between the American and the classic Italian versions of what coffee is and should be. Also, I'm not assuming that people don't know the origins of these words, but that the history of the words are being lost in the slang.<br />
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In this situation I'm more irked by the coffee professionals using this slang than customers. Just cause it seems that these people ought to know better. That said, I must also say that there is really nothing wrong with words like 'spro, cap, third wave, or whatever, other than the fact that I personally don't like them. As long as everyone knows what you're talking about, then the purpose of the word has been accomplished. I'm apparently adverse to change.<br />
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By the way, Ugly Mug and it's people are awesome.<br />
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<cite>Joshua "Yeshi" Longsdorf said:</cite><blockquote cite="http://www.baristaexchange.com/forum/topics/third-wave-vocabulary?page=1&commentId=1688216%3AComment%3A425578&x=1#1688216Comment425833"><div>I don't know if the words were changed in attempts to make them hip or cool. I would be willing to say out of convenience. Back in 2003 at my first roastery my business partner and I would write "spro" on the bags of espresso going to our cafe so we wouldn't have to waste labels used for wholesale on our cafe we did similarly when I went on to work at the Ugly Mug and I know others at the time were throwing it around as well. We didn't use it while serving customers. Also if there was a small chance that we were both working at the cafe we never wrote down orders we had a system for hollering drinks at each other, it was part of the show that our customers loved anyways just as a good server never writes a whole order we never called the full name one of the things we used was cap. It was never intended to bastardize the name. Of course I know the origin of the words and that cappuccino means little hood named after the capuchin monks. I don't know if it was ever meant to be a hip or cool thing. Also ordering espresso isn't authentic to the Italian ordering process. I would say the allotment of different sized cappuccini has done more to bastardize it than calling it cap.</div>
</blockquote> I don't know if the words wer…tag:www.baristaexchange.com,2009-04-09:1688216:Comment:4258332009-04-09T19:08:21.451ZJoshua Longsdorfhttps://www.baristaexchange.com/profile/Yeshi
I don't know if the words were changed in attempts to make them hip or cool. I would be willing to say out of convenience. Back in 2003 at my first roastery my business partner and I would write "spro" on the bags of espresso going to our cafe so we wouldn't have to waste labels used for wholesale on our cafe we did similarly when I went on to work at the Ugly Mug and I know others at the time were throwing it around as well. We didn't use it while serving customers. Also if there was a small…
I don't know if the words were changed in attempts to make them hip or cool. I would be willing to say out of convenience. Back in 2003 at my first roastery my business partner and I would write "spro" on the bags of espresso going to our cafe so we wouldn't have to waste labels used for wholesale on our cafe we did similarly when I went on to work at the Ugly Mug and I know others at the time were throwing it around as well. We didn't use it while serving customers. Also if there was a small chance that we were both working at the cafe we never wrote down orders we had a system for hollering drinks at each other, it was part of the show that our customers loved anyways just as a good server never writes a whole order we never called the full name one of the things we used was cap. It was never intended to bastardize the name. Of course I know the origin of the words and that cappuccino means little hood named after the capuchin monks. I don't know if it was ever meant to be a hip or cool thing. Also ordering espresso isn't authentic to the Italian ordering process. I would say the allotment of different sized cappuccini has done more to bastardize it than calling it cap. Well said Brett. To be honest…tag:www.baristaexchange.com,2009-04-09:1688216:Comment:4256052009-04-09T16:16:33.004ZJonathan Jarrowhttps://www.baristaexchange.com/profile/JonathanJarrow
Well said Brett. To be honest, I don't care for the hipster infiltration of coffee as a fad. Of course, it was once a popular fad to purchase coffee for a penny at shops in Europe and spend hours philosophizing and arguing (hence the name: Penny Universities). I suppose I just fancy that idea as more productive for a society.<br />
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Well said Brett. To be honest, I don't care for the hipster infiltration of coffee as a fad. Of course, it was once a popular fad to purchase coffee for a penny at shops in Europe and spend hours philosophizing and arguing (hence the name: Penny Universities). I suppose I just fancy that idea as more productive for a society.<br />
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<cite>brett felchner said:</cite><blockquote cite="http://www.baristaexchange.com/forum/topics/third-wave-vocabulary?page=1&commentId=1688216%3AComment%3A425578&x=1#1688216Comment425578"><div>I couldn't agree more with you Jonathan about the beauty that lies in some of these words. I'm sure you and I both and all other baristas alike go into a cafe that we do not work at and order drinks in the same way they were ordered many years before us. Lets also remember however that it's 2009! Hipsters multiply in a way that breaks all laws of modern science. My thoughts are that if they want to call it a "cap" or "spro" (the ladder I'm guilty of using on many occasions) then so be it. As long as they respect its roots and heritage and hopefully grow out of the slang at some point.</div>
</blockquote> I couldn't agree more with yo…tag:www.baristaexchange.com,2009-04-09:1688216:Comment:4255782009-04-09T15:55:02.390Zbrett felchnerhttps://www.baristaexchange.com/profile/BrettF
I couldn't agree more with you Jonathan about the beauty that lies in some of these words. I'm sure you and I both and all other baristas alike go into a cafe that we do not work at and order drinks in the same way they were ordered many years before us. Lets also remember however that it's 2009! Hipsters multiply in a way that breaks all laws of modern science. My thoughts are that if they want to call it a "cap" or "spro" (the ladder I'm guilty of using on many occasions) then so be it. As…
I couldn't agree more with you Jonathan about the beauty that lies in some of these words. I'm sure you and I both and all other baristas alike go into a cafe that we do not work at and order drinks in the same way they were ordered many years before us. Lets also remember however that it's 2009! Hipsters multiply in a way that breaks all laws of modern science. My thoughts are that if they want to call it a "cap" or "spro" (the ladder I'm guilty of using on many occasions) then so be it. As long as they respect its roots and heritage and hopefully grow out of the slang at some point.