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New2grammar  #514985  Sat, 17 May 08 08:49 PM
What do you call a person who fixes your furnace? Mechanic or plumber

What do you call a person who fixes/services your home air-conditioner? Mechanic or technician

What do you call a person who fixes your phone line? Technician or utility worker

Thanks in advance.

 

  
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Huevos  #514987  Sat, 17 May 08 09:04 PM

 None of them are set in stone and are going to be different from place to place and company to company. If you like you can call them all "man":

  • The central heating man
  • The air conditioning man
  • The telephone man
You can substitute "man" with "engineer" if you want to be a bit more formal.
  
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New2grammar  #514990  Sat, 17 May 08 09:12 PM

Huevos, I love your suggestion. Makes my life easy. But just to be sure, please check if the following are OK to you.


The person who changed my bathtub, bathtub man?
The furnace man?
The carpet man?
The light man?
The door man
The cabinet man

  
Huevos  #514994  Sat, 17 May 08 09:25 PM
Saying "man" is really colloquial and should be avoided if the proper job title is obvious. (Lots of jobs have "man" in their official title, milkman, rag and bone man, etc).

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The door man
Doorman is a person that stands outside a disco or nightclub and controls entry, but, context is everything, so if you were to say (with your hand on a door), "the door man is coming to fix this on Tuesday" it would sound perfectly natural and no one would think about the nightclub. Whether the others are ok really depends on the ear of the listener but they sound ok to me, except "light man" should be "lighting man". This could be taken to be an electrician or a man in a film studio that controls the way the film set is illuminated.

  
New2grammar  #514995  Sat, 17 May 08 09:35 PM

Thanks Huevos.

  
optilang  #515338  Sun, 18 May 08 10:44 PM
 Bath fitter

central heating engineer

carpet fitter

electrician

Carpenter  should cover the last two

  
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