Wiardgroup

Hi Timm

--- In wiardgroup@yahoogroups.com, "Timm Mason" <timm.mason@...> wrote:
>
> Thanks for bringing Tudor up - I was pondering only yesterday
whether the
> resonating objects in "Rainforest" fit the definition of electroniums
> (electronia?).***

 They certainly conform to MY definition....
  and since 'electronium' (there are those gosh darn quotes , again!)
is, pretty much, still a made-up word.... WHY NOT????!!!!
;'>
  i distinctly remember when 'Synthesizer' was just as undefined and
i'd argue that the likeness between (i.e) the first Buchla 100 and a
Korg Triton doesn't lend much credibility or specificity to the
definition that exists now.

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet."
-Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2) W. Shakespeare

> 
> I am thinking a lot of teaching myself circuit design and this
conversation
> is stimulating many ideas...

bon voyage!
it's a beautiful road but it's beauty is a terrible one!
;'>
the best advice i have is to bring along TWO wheelbarrows of cash.
Learning to push them both at once will be invaluable when trying to
unsolder transistors without melting them!

-doc

***first a confession:
i am a self-confessed, fanatic, obsessive, unreconstructed, recidivist
etymology nerd and any abuse that one would heap upon someone for such
pedantry ...i abide deservedly...
thus...
Because Electronium is not latin, but instead, is a latinization, with
a Greek root and a latin suffix , in a Victorian-era pseudo-latin
construction, my take is that it is cognate to modern English and
therefore the plural would be formed in the dominant English,
consonant-terminated form (adding an S):
Electroniums