[CAUT] Semantics

[Ron Nossaman]

Jeff Tanner wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don" <pianotuna at accesscomm.ca>
> To: <caut at ptg.org>
> Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 6:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [CAUT] Semantics
> 
> 
>> Hi Jeff,
>>
>> Please don't be obtuse.
> 
> I rather think it is the physicists here who are being obtuse and 
> unwilling to accept that the word amplify is understood by 
> non-physicists to mean something slightly different that what it means 
> to a physicist.  We're bickering over a semantics issue when everybody 
> on the list knew what I meant.  Let's move on and accept that what I 
> meant was that the "volume of noise was made larger and more powerful" 
> rather than trying to make others feel stupid and ignorant in front of 
> the congregation.
> 
> Jeff

Can you name someone, anyone, on list who is a physicist? I 
can't. It is my understanding we're mechanics. The only 
bickering being done here is by you, refusing to accept a 
basic point of the science involved. You're making a very big 
deal out of nothing.
Ron N