[CAUT] Semantics

[David Love]

Sometimes I think it's necessary to put the type A aside, or remember to
take the meds, and recognize that what one is trying to communicate is what
they are experiencing (as in this case, the sound seems to be amplified), as
an entry to try and get to the heart of the matter.   The technical aspect
of what's actually happening is certainly important and needs to be
addressed at some point in the discussion in order to tease out the variable
(in this case) but here we certainly lost the thread, or any interest in it
for that matter, for the sake of nit picking language.  I don't think it's a
constructive way to pursue this type of dialogue.   That's all.  

 

David Love

www.davidlovepianos.com

 

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In a message dated 5/9/2009 4:47:24 P.M. Central 

Daylight Time, davidlovepianos at comcast.net writes:

At this point I think everyone understands that a soundboard is not an
amplifier.

Maybe. :-)

  However, why can't one say "the volume of sound produced
formerly limited by the inconsequential mass of the vibrating string alone
is increased when the energy is transduced to the soundboard whose greater
mass and area allow for the greater movement of air".

It's closer.

Substitute the
colloquial meaning of amplified for increased and I don't think the physical
world as we have come to know it will cease to exist or all soundboard
science will be endangered.

Why not just use the correct lexicon?. 

  Precision in language is all well and good and
important, at least in most cases--after all we made the first tools and
fire (a significant step in the history of science) only being able to
grunt.  This rather inconsequential transgression

It's not a sin, just lazy-mindedness, and fuzzy thinking. I've got enough
fuzz in my navel, thanks. Oops, is that TMI?

will hardly cause the
seeds planted to not grow 

might could...

or put guns in all our pockets, as someone has
suggested.

Hyperbole, not ad hominem...metaphor, not attack...

  I'm not sure which side is more guilty of the ad hominem
attacks. 

No person has been attacked. An inarticulate and poor use of language which
might lead those who don't know to greater confusion rather than
enlightenment has been. Properly so. 

Point made, time to move on. 

Don't you mean, let's transduce? :-)



David Love
www.davidlovepianos.com




 

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