On 22 Nov 2008 12:05:15 -0500, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:

>
>See, over here, we troubleshoot everything from system-wide faults to 
>individual hardware component failures.
>

Lordy, lordy you'll have me speaking 'Merican yet. :)

>> I think it's interesting that "fault finding" sounds like a "blame game"
>> to Darren. Here a phrase like "root cause analysis" would get the CV
>> passed around so everyone could have a good snigger. Again two countries
>> separated by a common language :)
>
>Ain't that the truth. :-)
>

Tell me about it!

>"Fault finding" to me does imply "blamestorming" as well - the result of 
>"fault finding" is that "it's your fault", so has a very negative 
>connotation in most parts of the US IME.

I suppose that differentiate it by saying someone is finding fault.
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Regards
     Stephen

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