Some people on here love to argue for the hell of it
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It isn't a trend isolated to this forum or audiophiles in general, the entire online ecosystem is up to its neck in semantic police. That said, written communication's true meaning often is less than clear in spite of the fact the author thinks the content is straight forward. The subtle clues of meaning and intent we pick up from face to face interaction is sorely missing in the online universe. |
oh, yeah. wires. always the hotttest contests surround freakin' wires. as for word smithing. that would be a step up from some of the wire threads I've seen. the 'smiths' are usually on the 'science' side of the coin, and the rest are on the 'snake oil' side. I''m on the coin that stands on end. there is something to wires, but not as much as some would want others to accept or believe. perhaps though, the largest factor is simply the web. anonymity. folks have in the past decades been tweaked by the web to say 'anything'. And for any reason. to build themselves up somehow, and or to denigrate another, as there are no substantial immediate consequences for untoward acts. back in the early 00's folks were a lot nicer especially on these pages. just my two cents. |
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 of the quotations, all hope of agreement seems lost as to the meaning held within content between the 2 quotation marks. |
I think it is a part of being an audiophile. The joke of 'how many' for audiophiles would be "How many audiophiles does it take to screw in a lightbulb. One to screw in in. fifty to argue how it was screwed in, another two hundred would discus and fall to blows over whether it was the right bulb' Another couple of hundred would read about the light bulb changing and start new threads on how stupid the bulb changer is for xxx reasons, Dozens would start threads denouncing light bulbs as overpriced quackery, when candles do such a good job.Dozens more would defend the right to use lightbulbs... It would never end. Then someone would design a $599 light bulb and praise how it 'glows better than anything you ever saw' Dozens more would join in proclaiming the better light bulb. Then more audiophiles would stat complaining about 'snake oil' light bulbs... I could drag this out for hours of writing... I think you get the idea. |
re wack a mole' lol. lovely. I call 'em 'drive by posting'. or posters. simply done to illicit some sort of emotional upheaval I think. oil well. as for them interrupting anyone or anything, there is always the option of simply over looking such derogatory posts and skipping on to the next post. I think ignoring ignorance, is the appropriate path. it doesn't like that. |
Its the nature of the beast. Let's face it, the internet already has everything and more. If you really want to know something all it takes is a search. Even the answer to this question, why is it, is already there. Its not even necessary for me to do a search, because I know its there. Its there on Rennlist (the Porsche enthusiast site) its there on WatchUSeek, and visajourney and countless others. Its there in Eclesiastes: "there is nothing new under the sun." |
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 |
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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. |
It is not 'smaller' it is narrower. Big difference. words are powerful. Keep cutting and eventually you will have an infinite number of them. Curiously, they will take up no more space the the one you started with.. if you pack them carefully. But my problem is... once they are infinitely thin..Do they still really HAVE a flat side??? Wouldn't the edge be way way thicker than what was the flat side when you started? So then you start cutting that edge...?? Will you eventually no longer HAVE a Mobius strip since the flats have shrunk to a one dimensional line at infinity???... Well??? |
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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. |