Wordplay

“The meter was only a metre away from the mitred joint.  And then the regulator wanted to check if the regulator was working. But then again, the service line was in need of a service.”

The three sentences above were sentences that actually could have been used in a discussion I was having today.  It was while facilitating a risk management workshop for some infrastructure assets in Queensland, that it occurred to me how we were using the same words for very different things. 

In conversations, particularly technical ones, there’s a chance someone in the room hasn’t followed along entirely.