Right David, I agree. As the spouse of a Registered Nurse, I think time develops the meaning. No one questions that RN's are educated, tested professionals. With time, the same will be said of RPT's. And, yes, changing things now would undo a lot of hard work to get our credential recognized. William R. Monroe Tom: > > > > This is an old, long debated item – check the archives. Everyone > understands that a Registered Nurse is educated and tested as are Registered > Physical Therapists (the other RPTs). There has been enough marketing > effort put into RPT that any change would cancel out a lot of good marketing > effort. > > > > If one wants to be linguistically correct at all times, we’d have to change > our titles about every 10 years since words change their meanings all the > time. > > > > dp > > > > David M. Porritt, RPT > SNIP > > But then, if we're going to talk terminology, my first priority would be to > change the term "*Registered* Piano Technician". This term bears no > weight in the every day world. It sounds like I took the time to fill out a > card and now I'm registered with the PTG. Like a dog is registered with the > village and wears a little medallion on his collar. > > > > Two standard definitions of "Registered" are > > "enrolled" > > or > > "recorded in writing" > > > > Does that describe accurately the status of a technician who has passed his > exams? > > "Technician who has been enrolled"? > > "Technician who has his name recorded in writing"? > > > > The PTG should use English terms that accurately describe what it is they > are trying to define. > > > > Tom Sivak > > Chicago > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090723/90548304/attachment.htm>
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