[ARC5] Product detectors - the name.

[Bruce Long]

Richard:"The name for something can be so far from its function as to confuse understanding of what it is."

You mean like breadboard, or choke or condenser or maybe Vcc bus?


      From: Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>
 To: Bruce Long <coolbrucelong at yahoo.com>; "arc5 at mailman.qth.net" <arc5 at mailman.qth.net> 
 Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2017 9:33 PM
 Subject: Re: [ARC5] Product detectors - the name.
   
    I find the same thing interesting. The name for something can be so 
far from its function as to confuse understanding of what it is. I am 
glad you taught your students to be careful of language.

On 5/10/2017 1:26 PM, Bruce Long wrote:
> Yeah Richard
>
> A rose by another name would still smell sweet but possibly confuse the
> hell out of everyone.  When I was teaching I was a bit of a jerk
> requiring proper terminology to avoid confusion and clarify technical
> communications.  A dBm is NOT the same as a dB.
>

>

-- 
Richard Knoppow
1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
WB6KBL


   
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