Don’t think my reply to this belongs on list anymore so I’ll take it off. David Love www.davidlovepianos.com From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of PAULREVENKOJONES at aol.com Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2009 4:58 PM To: caut at ptg.org Subject: Re: [CAUT] Semantics In a message dated 5/9/2009 5:47:04 P.M. Central Daylight Time, davidlovepianos at comcast.net writes: I don’t think it’s a constructive way to pursue this type of dialogue. That’s all. David... If clarity of language is not a constructive activity for you, or "nit-picking", as you say, then it will certainly bore you. My feeling is, always has been, and always will be, that the more clearly we talk with each other, and the more we try to understand each other's lexicon, particularly the weird technical lexicon of vibratory acoustics, the closer to each other's minds we get. It is like very fine regulation and the helical circularity of the steps through which we go to achieve fine regulation. I'm certain you don't think that that is nit-picking. I think also that we have a responsibility to the larger and future community of piano technicians to hone our language to express our meaning as clearly as possible. The fuzzier our language, the fuzzier our brains. I for one am not willing to allow not just fuzzy, but wrong and misleading language to persist in my chosen profession. Also, David, while the original thread is not lost (it's easily retrievable, we know exactly where it is), it is a matter of civil, interesting, and human discourse to take the elements of our conversation happily where they need to go in order to make the stepping stones of our progressive understanding clearer and more easily seen. Otherwise one or the other of us lands in the rushing current flowing around them. None of us wishes that on the other, surely, but that we all cross the torrent safely. Paul _____ Remember Mom this Mother's Day! Find <http://yellowpages.aol.com/search?query=florist&ncid=emlcntusyelp00000006> a florist near you now. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20090509/56ca17c6/attachment-0001.html>
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