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"You are an active member of an internet-based bicycle community, geek is relative.
it certainly is,I'm happy to be part of what is essentially an enthusiasts forum but i'm indicating a difference in terminology between professional and amateur, i was just interested in why and where the term came from.
i wonder if will hoy or his mechanic use the term "fixie"?
"As for the term 'glass' it's an incredibly important term and not one that is used instead of another term. The glass that goes into a lens is very important. The quality of it means more to a camera than just about any other single part of a camera."
i agree the glass used is very important, things like resolution, sharpness, chromatic aberration, aspherics, MTF charts, low dispersion 'glass' (the fact that canon don't use lead in theirs) etc matter to me.
it just seems odd to say "i'm going to buy a new glass", "the new tilt and shift glass i brought for the canon is the dogs", " pass me the 70-200 glass", "that new image stabalised zoom glass from canon is the shizzle", " if the client want it changed i'm going to smash my glass over his head" . actually the last one would save me money :-)