Arguments devolve on threads to wordsmithing contests

glupson, I don’t know. Glad you enjoy this tho.

">>>>>>I believe the word is Colosseum"

I saw it first, but felt rebellious (for this thread) and resisted pointing it out.

These days, it is Colosseo, in fact. At least that is what it says there.

Is it LOL or Lol? Does it need a period after it or not? Here’s looking at ya celander. Does anyone here know? This new lingo is hard to be sure about.

Enjoyable thread, for sure. More to learn here than in many others.

I would imagine someone with dyslexia would appreciate some of the last few posts.

larry, I created this thread to divert commentary away from a different thread when things seem to get a bit testy. This thread has no other purpose than that.

larry, +1
roddmaan, +1

@celander - It deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr teh ltteers in a wrod aer, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht teh frist adn lsat ltteer be in teh rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses adn yuo can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, btu teh wrod as a wlohe.

I think we need to remind ourselves this is a forum for us all to learn by.  I am new to this hobby and have lots to learn.  I am grateful all of the discussions, as I have and continue to learn more about what makes sound as close to perfect as possible.  I think we also need to all realize that most of us are more involved with the quality of sound produced based on different equipment than the music itself.  I am sure guilty of this.  I appreciate the discussions and I hope no one will be intimidated to share their thoughts, right or wrong, in the future.

Reminds me of an article about reading comprehension wherein the author provided an example of a paragraph including misspellings of every word. No issues with reading it. Lol

Uber, "five minute" as modifying "argument" is likely better as "five-minute." And "argument" has only 1 letter "e," while "full half hour" might be better as "one-half hour" ("full half" is the same as "half"). Lol

It's actually a chewy nougat wrapped in chocolate.

...another enigmatic prognostication....

stargazer372 posts02-27-2019 3:02amMost disagreements on HiFi forums are like the OK Corral gunfight of egos. The posters pretend to argue their particular subject or cause but in reality they are imposing their 'superior' ego over the other and others who read the thread are like spectators in the Colleseum.

>>>>>>I believe the word is Colosseum. 

a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma is why Churchill drank a fifth every day.....and it wasn't Beethoven's

 It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. - Winston Churchill. 

Most disagreements on HiFi forums are like the OK Corral gunfight of egos.  The posters pretend to argue their particular subject or cause but in reality they are imposing their 'superior' ego over the other and others who read the thread are like spectators in the Colleseum.

why are you here?

I want to complain!

sorry, this is Getting hit on the Head lessons. Complaining is next door.

I don't know how to answer this. I thought argument was the point of this site??

:D


Best,

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"You say you want a devolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world"

And Bob's your uncle.
Maybe it's time to gather some moss.

Awesome!, A thread that everyone is in agreement, my vote is cast as best thread ever!

Finally, a thread worth reading. Or is it "word reading"?

Oh I'm sorry is this a five minute arguement or the full half hour?

Superiority Complex

Tell us Geoff, tell us how we're wrong, we need to know!

"In any dispute, the intensity of the feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake" -Wallace Sayre

(mike drop.....) 

“>>>>Correction. Everyone has his own field, after all.”

Geoff single-handedly wiped the female and “other” genders out of the lexicon of candidates for possessive pronouns.

Do the discussions devolve or do they evolve?

I suspect what happens to them is alternating versions of osmosis and capillary action, each in inverse intensity and magnitude to the other. But I could be wrong.

rodman999993,530 posts02-26-2019 7:46pmI deleted my previous, very unkind, post and regret having made it.  Everyone has their own field, after all.

>>>>Correction. Everyone has his own field, after all. 

Or as Frank Zappa said,  "I get off being chuked by a baby octopus and spewed upon with creamed corn".😮

You lose. You’re both way way off. 😥

Eventually...maybe. She shared it with W&C. Wilkens shared the Nobel. She would have had she been alive. 

RF got it wrong? Don't you mean for the time she had her data she hadn't fully interpreted it or analyzed it? It wasn't for anyone else to steal and have at. That's intellectual property theft. Eventually she would have gotten it.

Hey, I never said W&C were honest scientists. But RF got it wrong. 

I'll take infinity for 800

Do the discussions devolve or do they evolve?

yeah, I believe that was the title of the piece.......i will guess you will end up with the same thing you started with after cutting, just a smaller version? what do I win? or do I lose?

Perhaps you mean Möbius strip.

Pop quiz - what happens to a Möbius strip when you cut it in half length wise, down the centerline of the strip?

part 2 - what happens when you cut the result of part 1 in half, similarly?

Is that wordsmithing? 😳

Personally, I think M.C. Escher should get credit for the double helix; he had drawings of it a decade before Watson & Crick came along.

Without an unauthorized looksee at the x-ray diffraction data of Rosalind Franklin's work, Watson and Crick would never have come up with the structure. Model building, Watson stumbled on it because of Franklin’s data that he wasn’t supposed to see. Honest Jim indeed. Franklin deserved the Nobel. Watson was a tennis playing skirt chaser at Cambridge. Crick was the brains of that duo.

@oregonpapa  Brilliant response...challenging whether "wordsmithing" was the correct word ;-)  I believe this is where counsel rests its case.

I don't use lights. They are snake oil in the nth degree. Everyone is delusional if they think they have light when they flip a light switch. There is no such thing as light. If you think there is prove it. It is just a lot of empty space between the eyes.

Not sure what the OP means by "wordsmithing." To me, a wordsmith is an exceptionally creative writer. For example, H.L. Mencken would be a wordsmith extraordinaire.

https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/h_l_mencken

https://www.azquotes.com/author/9962-H_L_Mencken

Frank

@millercarbon That is how folks in molecular biology felt after Watson and Crick discovered the DNA double helix structure. Crick literally opined about virtually every topic in the area, leaving nothing for most others to discover in a new way. Lol