On 2010/06/11, at 02:04 , Paul Armstrong wrote:
At 2010-06-10T10:48-0500, [email protected] wrote:
Yes, John. My objection is the dumbed-down unit used by the AP
("foot"), not the excess precision of the estimated depth. I see
that
I previously wrote "numbed down" which my spell checker did not
reject, but "numbed down" also applies. Gene.
Numbed down is better than dumbed down.
Dumbed down implies simplification which changing from metric into
non-metric units _never_ does.
If anything, changing from non-metric to metric is dumbing down
(although it's simplifying without the oversimplification implied by
the
phrase dumbing down).
I suggest "complexify" as a better word for changing metric into
non-metric. If a perjorative can be found that truly expresses how
stupid such a transformation is, then by all means use that.
Paul
Dear Paul,
Would you consider compexificationisation?
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