[sdiy] Language bending, was:Alternating dead current voltage??

[Ingo Debus]

Am Freitag, 24.12.04 um 18:18 Uhr schrieb TIm Daugard:

> The biggest language mistake I hate. In inverting and non-inverting 
> inputs to
> opamps.
>
> Why should we define something as the non- version of the oposite 
> version of the
> normal. I have taken to using normal and inverting to descirbe opamp 
> inputs.
>

I'm always bothered by the fact that there isn't a "correct" term for 
musical instruments that are not electronic. Usually these are refered 
to as "acoustic" instruments, but since "acoustic" in the strict sense 
means "dealing with sound" this would imply our synthesizers do not 
produce sound. Huh?
Also, the usage of "acoustic" sometimes sounds a bit high-brow to me, 
like in "we only play acoustic instruments" (even worse: "we only play 
real instruments").

So, why not call a group of instruments whose only common property is 
that they are not electronic "non-electronic instruments"?

Any better suggestions?

Ingo