From: seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com   
      
   On 9/1/14, 5:37 PM, William Vetter wrote:   
   > On Monday, September 1, 2014 8:02:05 AM UTC-4, Jacey Bedford wrote:   
   >   
   >> as well as discovering that there is no word in the USA equivalent to   
   >>   
   >> the British 'boffin'. (We ended up with 'scientist' but that really   
   >>   
   >> doesn't cover it.)   
   >>   
   > If you mean boffin in the sense of research technician, there is.   
   >   
      
   	The context in which I've heard "Boffin" seems to imply "really bright   
   scientist guys who're doing this awesome work we're reporting on", or,   
   in a negative context, "crazy scientists doing this loony stuff".   
      
      
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