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Hello all,
 i'd like to apologise to everyone about my emails.
For some reason, every time i sent mail, characters
&#39 replaced '. This must have been very frustrating
for the reader. Subsequently, i'm off to fight the big
service provider in the sky to resolve this issue. Til
then,
    Matt
--- drmabuce <drmabuce@yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
> 
>