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Arguments devolve on threads to wordsmithing contests
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 
Arguments devolve on threads to wordsmithing contests
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 
Machina Dynamica New Dark Matter CD and Blu Ray tray treatment?
So I received the kit in the mail over the weekend. I was going to initially use the kit with my Oppo Blu-ray SE-83 front-loader player. I bit the bullet and applied the kit to my Jay’s Audio CDT2 MK2 top-loader CD transport instead. The listening... 
Arguments devolve on threads to wordsmithing contests
“>>>>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. 
Arguments devolve on threads to wordsmithing contests
Eventually...maybe. She shared it with W&C. Wilkens shared the Nobel. She would have had she been alive.  
Arguments devolve on threads to wordsmithing contests
Hey, I never said W&C were honest scientists. But RF got it wrong.  
The Science of Cables
Was NASA mentioned in a now deleted post? 
The Science of Cables
A2) A furry quantum knife being linked to a random subatomic event that may or may not occur.  
Arguments devolve on threads to wordsmithing contests
@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 
The Science of Cables
Prof has expounded at length about blind testing methodology. Search for those posts. If I recall the gist of one thread, my take away from those discussions is that blind testing is nearly impossible to do effectively. And I offer this by way of ... 
Arguments devolve on threads to wordsmithing contests
Geoff is the whack a mole champ.  
The Science of Cables
It's weird to me that one can own "too much personal investment" in a post one makes largely anonymously. But welcome to the virtual world of communications in social media! 
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The state of mind of the poster is well beyond this forum’s comprehension. Lol 
Arguments devolve on threads to wordsmithing contests
Communication is pretty fundamental. Most understand the literal meaning of words when strung together in cogent (or not so cogent) sentences. Only the context of emotional nuance is missing owing to the medium. Yet when folks engage in the battle... 
Arguments devolve on threads to wordsmithing contests
To wit: https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/the-science-of-cables?lastpage=true&page=8#1709051