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From:  wysock-at-ttr-dot-com [SMTP:wysock-at-ttr-dot-com]
Sent:  Monday, March 09, 1998 11:29 AM
To:  Tesla List
Subject:  Re: Slang Terminology

To Vivian, and All,

I'm sorry, but I just can't stand the [continuation] of this 
"slang" thread any further!  I only have this to say (bare with
me here, please...)

"You say 'tow-may-toe'....I say 'tow-ma-toe'....."
"You say 'pow-tae-toe'....I say 'pow-ta-toe'......"

Potato, patato, Tomato, tomato,...it's all up to Mr.
in between!  add music here......  : )

(please foregive the phoenetic spelling)

I am also reminded of the Bible story of "The Tower of Bable."

With all due respect to everyone on this List, there certainly is
everyone's favorite pet sayings and slang.  But in terms of science
and engineering, there are only cold, if not heartless, absolute
expressions of communication, that help mankind reach higher
plains of understanding.  

Bill Wysock.
> To:            "'Tesla List'" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> Subject:       Slang Terminology
> Date:          Mon, 9 Mar 1998 15:41:19 -0600
> From:          Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>

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> From:  Vivian [SMTP:V.C.Watts-at-btinternet-dot-com]
> Sent:  Sunday, March 08, 1998 7:33 AM
> To:  Tesla List
> Subject:  Re: Slang Terminology
> 
> 
> 
> >From:  Robert W. Stephens [SMTP:rwstephens-at-headwaters-dot-com]
> >Sent:  Wednesday, March 04, 1998 10:53 AM
> >To:  Tesla List
> >Subject:  Re: Slang Terminology
> >
> >Exactly!  My point however is simply one born of respect and a wish
> >to avoid confusion. New professions that spring up should invent their own
> >slang terminology and not do a cheap and lazy rip-off of someone
> >else's time honoured phrase or achronym that has been in general use for
> longer
> >than their own newbie occupation, and which is commonly understood to mean
> >something entirely different than the new use.
> >
> 
> 
> I think Robert you will be fighting a loosing battle.  I don't think this
> sort of thing is deliberate but done out of ignorance of other professions.
> In the 60's to me tranny meant transistor radio and was used by the
> population at large.
> 
> To take this a stage further, having studied electrical engineering as my
> profession it becomes second nature to think of the behaviour of
> capacitors,inductors and resistors. You can spend years at college studying
> the maths associated with the forces on these items and learning the
> terminology to communicate your understanding.  However if you branch out to
> other disciplines such as mechanical engineering you begin to realise that
> mass, springs and dampers have exactly the same properties.  Furthermore you
> can transpose the maths almost directly but a whole living can be made
> clouded in the different terminology.
> 
> Viv Watts UK.
> 
> 
> 
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