Coordinate term: softpaste

“You have to overcommunicate to an incredible degree,” Dr. Priest said, “because we still get questions on things that I think, ‘This was well-known 18 months ago.’

Practical seamanship, in the old sense, is bound to die out, because there is no need to preserve it. It was only the other day that an old skipper assured me that he was acquainted with the mate of a steamer who did not know what a harness-cask was, and worst of all, sir, cried my friend, he's not ashamed of his ignorance.

His boss will tear him a new one when he finds out.