Re: Quartz/Halogen incandescent bulbs

[Jack Uretsky <jlu@HEP.ANL.GOV>]

        See below.

Adam was by constitution and proclivity a scientist; I was the same, and
we loved to call ourselves by that great name...Our first memorable
scientific discovery was the law that water and like fluids run downhill,
not up.
                          Mark Twain, <Extract from Eve's Autobiography>

On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Zach Wolff wrote:

> Kudos to Mark for showing some linguistics knowledge
> on this physics list.

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>   If native speakers of a
> lanuage understand an utterance it is correct.
> Language is about communication, not arbitrary
> standards.

        Oh, c'mon.  Without "arbitrary standards" as
to the meaning of words, how could you communicate?
Your posting is utterly semigrlphigpichel.
        Go back and consider humpty-dumpty's dictum.
        The two quoted sentences are logically inconsistent.

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