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2016-05-10 Thread Raremeteorites via Meteorite-list
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Re: [meteorite-list] Invented words

2016-05-10 Thread bill kies via Meteorite-list
I see "meteorics" used often to represent the study of meteorites. Shouldn't it be meteoritics? Could both ever be acceptable? __ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and the Archives at

Re: [meteorite-list] Invented words

2016-05-10 Thread Anne Black via Meteorite-list
I suppose the study of meteors could be meteoric! :-)) But the study of Meteorites is certainly meteoritic. Anne M. Black www.IMPACTIKA.com impact...@aol.com -Original Message- From: bill kies via Meteorite-list To: meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day

2016-05-10 Thread Paul Swartz via Meteorite-list
Today's Meteorite Picture of the Day: NWA 5437 Contributed by: Paul Swartz http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpodmain.asp?DD=05/10/2016 __ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and the Archives at

[meteorite-list] Invented words

2016-05-10 Thread Rob Matson via Meteorite-list
Ugh. It joins the ranks of "irregardless". Now that social media is a permanent fixture, it probably only takes a handful of modestly well-connected people to bastardize an existing word into a needless new synonym... I'm becoming a grumpier old man with each passing year, I guess! --R

Re: [meteorite-list] Invented words

2016-05-10 Thread Bob King via Meteorite-list
In my mind, it all began with "prioritize". Now a very common word but I still choose not to use it. Bob On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 11:55 AM, Anne Black via Meteorite-list wrote: > I am with you Rob! > To me "cool" is still a temperature, somewhere between tepid

Re: [meteorite-list] Invented words

2016-05-10 Thread Anne Black via Meteorite-list
I am with you Rob! To me "cool" is still a temperature, somewhere between tepid and cold. Nothing else. Anne M. Black www.IMPACTIKA.com impact...@aol.com -Original Message- From: Rob Matson via Meteorite-list To: 'Sterling K. Webb'

Re: [meteorite-list] Invented words

2016-05-10 Thread Bigjohn Shea via Meteorite-list
Starting to wander off topic... Unless we want to continue inventing more words that are related to meteoritics? I propose we start simplifying "regmaglypts" to "remagyps" until it catches on. Also I propose that "Widmanstatten" now be shortened to "Widstatten" until it appears in a

Re: [meteorite-list] Invented words

2016-05-10 Thread Anne Black via Meteorite-list
Nay! ;-) Anne M. Black www.IMPACTIKA.com impact...@aol.com -Original Message- From: Bigjohn Shea via Meteorite-list To: Bob King via Meteorite-list ; meteorite-list Sent:

Re: [meteorite-list] Invented words

2016-05-10 Thread Matthias Bärmann via Meteorite-list
Dear Listocionados, before inventing more neologisms, something completely different - out of the door, please, line on the left, one argument each: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNkjDuSVXiE Best, Matthias Baermann Am 10.05.2016 um 19:37 schrieb Anne Black via Meteorite-list: Nay! ;-)