30 Mar
2005
30 Mar
'05
11:34 p.m.
On 31/03/2005, at 7:27 AM, Chad Fernandez wrote:
Pete Turnbull wrote:
My usage (remember I lived in the UK when I was young) would be that a
bodge would be a crude, inelegant, possibly temporary, fix where as a
kludge is a more elegant work around for a problem.
Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies at kerberos.davies.net.au
Melbourne | "If soccer was meant to be played in the
Australia | air, the sky would be painted green"
"Bodge" doesn't mean the same thing
at all. You're probably thinking
of "botch", which means (v) to screw something up, or (n) something
which is screwed up. "Kludge" means to make something work, but in an
inelegant or clumsy fashion. "Bodge", however, means to adjust or
adapt something carefully to fit, perhaps in a way not originally
intended; "bodgers" were originally people who did the final fitting
of
parts to machines and the like.
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.