30 Mar
2005
30 Mar
'05
1:27 p.m.
Pete Turnbull wrote:
"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.
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA