Your apology is marred by the continuing glib and facile ad hominem of "I and rest of the world..." implying, I take it, that the rest of us are insane, stupid, misinformed, or just pedantic sticklers for high-end communication. Just because we're technicians doesn't mean that we can't or shouldn't be encouraged to correctly draw our language for technical phenomena from the scientific world, and attempt to understand the language. If you wish to redefine for your purposes only accepted technical verbiage, then the result will be as it is: we are talking different languages. Your choice. P In a message dated 5/8/2009 3:16:02 P.M. Central Daylight Time, tannertuner at bellsouth.net writes: I apologize for using the word "amplify" incorrectly, as those of you understand it. Here's how I and the rest of the world previously understood the meaning of "amplify": Amplify: 1. To make larger or more powerful; increase. 2. To add to, as by illustration and make complete. 3. Exaggerate. 4. Electronics. to produce amplification of. verb: to write or discourse at length; expatiate. Source: American Heritage Dictionary, 2nd College Edition. So, who has the correct definition? Physicists or the rest of the world? Is it soccer or football? Semantics. Jeff Tanner (I have never in 42 years and seriously doubt I will ever use the word "transduce". Nobody else will know what it means.) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman at cox.net> To: <caut at ptg.org> Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 7:47 AM Subject: Re: [CAUT] Accujust and grunting fish bait > David Love wrote: >> Sorry to disagree but I think in this case it is a semantic issue and the >> original question has been lost on this tangent. > > I disagree. It's not a semantic issue. The terms are clearly defined, > regardless of colloquial usage. It's the continued use and tolerance of > fuzzy ill defined concepts that make these discussions nearly useless, and > doomed to repeat endlessly. > > Ron N > > **************Remember Mom this Mother's Day! Find a florist near you now. (http://yellowpages.aol.com/search?query=florist&ncid=emlcntusyelp00000006) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20090508/6a351443/attachment.html>
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