Terminology: vernacular vs latinate

Billbrpt@AOL.COM Billbrpt@AOL.COM
Tue, 3 Nov 1998 10:06:49 EST


In a message dated 11/3/98 8:56:05 AM Central Standard Time,
jhunt@geocities.com writes:

<< You don't have to resort to Latin - properly constructed, the English
language
 can be just as confusing. For example, burning hammer shanks can be described
 as "thermal assisted hammer rotation".
 
 --
 Jerry Hunt
 Dallas, TX USA >>

Asking for a glass of ice water while attempting to tune in ET might be
called, "Mandating consumption of a vile of cryogenically treated hydrogen
dioxide while attempting to duplicate Helmholtz' 11th comma syntonic
*MEANTONE* scale arrangement experiment".

"How about it, Ma'am, will it be that or a nice Well-Tempered tuning?"

Bill


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