Specification or standard

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Standard or specification?I bought you the tree but it's not exactly to specification. standard.

Regards · Accepted Answer

Hi,

Are you sure you bought him / her a tree? It's funny.

Anyway, you should use specification, but I'd recast your sentence thus:

I bought you the tree, but it's not exactly to my specification.

Or: I bought you the tree. It's not exactly to my specification, though.

Regards

Dimsumexpress · Answer

RegardsHi,
Are you sure you bought him / her a tree? It's funny.
Anyway, you should use specification, but I'd recast your sentence thus:

Or: I bought you the tree. It's not exactly to my specification, though.

Regards

Hi Regards,

I take it that you are saying this sentence is semantically and grammatically sound, right?. I bought you the tree, but it's not exactly to my specification.

Sorry to differ!
First you bought someone a tree, and you went on to say " It's not exactly to my specification". I am confused.

If I (the person who) asked you to buy me an eight foot Noble Fur Christmas tree on a stand with sprayed on snow. This is what I want as requirement. You came back with a sesven foot Douglas Fur without a stand. Is this your spec or my requirement?

Specification - is usually used for something engineered or related to engineering. Using it in this context somehow seem
a bit "sarcastic" or "out-of place" for something as simple as a tree in my opinion. Strictly observing from the sound perspective, it doesn't seem to be something natural to say. Perhaps, " I bought you the tree but it may not be exactly to your requirement/ what you want.

That being said, you may use the same structure: I bought you a new laptop, but it is not excatly the specifications you had in mind. It's an Intel i-5, not 7.

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