Hi Bob, A normal tangent is at 90 degrees to the radius.
-----Original Message----- From: Tai-Pan <[email protected]> To: James Osbourne, Holmes <[email protected]> Cc: silver-list <[email protected]>; Tai-Pan <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, May 11, 2000 8:39 AM Subject: CS>Re: OT, Word play, was CS>Computer virus warnings... >Hi James, > >"James Osbourne, Holmes" wrote: > >> Hi Bob, >> >> I think you will enjoy looking up "nice". Definitions range from "wanton >> foolishness", apparently its earlier connotation,[am I using that word >> correctly?] to "exact". Track it through "normal", "correct", etc. I >> found it amazing. > >Well the old usage of "nice" as ignorant and foolish was "Old French", which we >don't use anymore. At least I haven't heard anyone speaking Old French for a >couple of hundred years. > How did we get on to the word "nice", wasn't used in any of the previous posts? > > I do like the usage of lewd or wanton, but that is also obsolete now. > Personally I like "nice" as discriminating the very good from the good, as a >synonym. > Or pleasing and agreeable. :-) > > >> >> >> Today, most people associate "normal" with sort of run-of-the-mill ordinary, >> but it meant "to the very highest standard". The word comes from the "norm" >> which is a synonym for a carpenter's square of exactly 90 degrees. > > Right, "normal" did ,or use to mean a high standard, not now though, its "just >average". > The French way back used the word "norma" to mean a carpenter square. They also >used it to mean a wooden ruler. > In geometry the "normal" is a line or plane perpendicular to the tangent of a >curve, at the point of the curve. Has nothing to do with a carpenters square. > > >> >> >> Thanks again for all of your wonderful dissertations. >> >> Meaning so so dependent on context.... > >Your right, and we have had our fun for now. > Your the "MOST". Don't look it up. Guess what it means (I mean) in this >context. :-) >Could be that folks like you and I keep things from getting dull and >boring.He-He > > > Bless you Bob Lee > >> >> >> James Osbourne Holmes >> >> FTNWO > > For The New World Order ?? > >Didn't use the spell checker, tired of it telling me my address is wrong. :-) > > >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Tai-Pan <[email protected]> >> To: James Osbourne, Holmes <[email protected]> >> Cc: silver-list <[email protected]> >> Date: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 11:11 PM >> Subject: OT, Word play, was CS>Computer virus warnings... >> >> > >> > >> >"James Osbourne, Holmes" wrote: >> > Bob Lee wrote: >> > >> >> "Aren't the rules of grammar >> >> >wonderful. They make sure that a word means the same thing to everyone >> >> using the >> >> >grammar, and not a dozen different meanings. This way we don't have >> chaos >> >> in our >> >> >language. :-)" >> >> >> >> Cool! >> >> >> >> JOH >> > >> > Wonderful James, >> > Your one worders are excellent examples of grammer. >> > >> > Here we go, he-he. >> > >> > Cool: as an adjective >> > >> > 1. Moderately cold; lacking in warmth >> > 2. Not retaining or admitting heat, as a cool dress >> > 3. Not ardent or passionate, exercising self-control, calm, self-possessed >> > 4. Manifesting coldness or dislike, as a cool greeting >> > 5. Calmly impudent, inconsiderately audacious, as a cool stare >> > 6. Stated or estimated without exaggeration, as to inherit a cool million >> > 7. Of colors, producing a sense of coolness, of a hue near green or blue >> (opp >> >to warm) >> > >> > Cool: as a noun >> > 1. A cool time or place >> > 2. Coolness >> > >> > Cool: as a verb or intransitive >> > 1. To become or make cool >> > 2. To calm or allay >> > >> > Cool: Synonyms >> > Mean actually or appartently free from agitation or excitement >> > 1. Cool, specifically implies dispassionateness, calmness, deliberation, >> >appearance or the like >> > 2. Composed, implies this freedom as the sign of a decorous, sedate temper >> or >> >self-discipline >> > 3. Collected, implies a concentration of mind or spirit that eliminates >> >distractions >> > 4. Unruffled, implies coolness, placidity, and often poise in the midst of >> >excitement >> > 5. Imperturbable, implies such coolness or assurance that one is beyond >> >agitation >> > 6. Nonchalant, implies causalness of manner, the sign but not the result >> of >> >unconcern >> > >> > >> > Alright now, just which of all these is James wanting us to picture in our >> >minds as he throws out the word "cool" at us.? >> > >> > I had the impression that James was thinking, "thats right" or >> "admiration" or >> >"agreement" , the word cool isn't any of those. >> > >> > Oh-well, guess we each will just have to guess what he ment in our own >> ways, >> >and we each will have a different thought as to what he was trying to say. >> Such >> >chaos. >> > >> > Think we need another Chucky one liner here. :-) >> > >> > Bless you Bob Lee >> > >> > >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> >> >> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> >> >> Date: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 9:11 PM >> >> Subject: Re: CS>Computer virus warnings... >> >> >> >> >Yep, >> >> >Grammer always made SURE I understood!!!! >> >> > Chuck >> >> >Marching to a different kettle of fish >> > >-- >oozing on the muggy shore of the gulf coast > [email protected] > > > >-- >The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > >To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: >[email protected] -or- [email protected] >with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. > >To post, address your message to: [email protected] >Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html >List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> > >
