The Real P5 ?

[pistonboy]

Many words are used incorrectly so long, that eventually the definition changes and the incorrect usage becomes accepted as standard and correct.

What issue is next? How many angels can stand on the head of a pin?

 

[Ian442]

I don't know many angels can stand on the head of a pin...

But I do know 2 pizzas 10 toppings just $9.99 at Little Caesars and you can paint the Sistine Chapel on the head of a pin

 

[AriLea]

Many words are used incorrectly so long, that eventually the definition changes and the incorrect usage becomes accepted as standard and correct.
What issue is next? How many angels can stand on the head of a pin?

You know I run into technical contextual issues all the time in computer tech. I love(hate) how my kids will call the monitor a computer and the PC box a hard drive. They don't care what the accurate descriptions are, they use the terms to communicate their set of objectives and it works at their level of detail.

For example how a digital electronics engineer uses boolean algebra terms is in subtle conflict with how a computer programmer uses them. And a mathematician would probably be appalled by how the other two professions misunderstand the theory, and then a philosophy major, who are very intimate with the boolean nature of reasoning, has a totally different take on the whole discipline. Yet with out having encountered each other on the topic, all these people think they are on the same page, until they discuss something at the most finite detail.

And dictionaries, oh lets not get started. There are different ones for different uses. The common dictionary only cares to the point that, what makes my car move, it doesn't care about too much detail on what internal bits interact for what reason.

We all think we live in the objective world, but our thoughts always exist in a subjective one.

And then there is this mind trip.., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images
... the map is not the territory,, and ,, when is a chair, not a chair? (Hint: 1.ask a monkey, 2. when a person's name is Chair?)

 

[Rickb]

In reality all I CARe about is that the P5 has a MOTOR and can scream (MOVE) around a test track at top speed.

 

[Kuda]

In reality all I CARe about is that the P5 has a MOTOR and can scream (MOVE) around a test track at top speed.

 

[Gizmo]

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That's fairly close to what I imagined when I read RickB's post. lmao

 

[Rickb]

That is exactly the 0-60 mph image I had in mind.

 

[Rob Croson]

Nothing sets of a fierce forum debate more than semantics...


...except an Elgin dash.

 

[WilliamH]

And to think I missed all of that while I was having a cardiac catheterization.
Hmmm!
Think the "cath" was more fun.

 

[Ty]

You know I run into technical contextual issues all the time in computer tech. I love(hate) how my kids will call the monitor a computer and the PC box a hard drive. They don't care what the accurate descriptions are, they use the terms to communicate their set of objectives and it works at their level of detail.

For example how a digital electronics engineer uses boolean algebra terms is in subtle conflict with how a computer programmer uses them. And a mathematician would probably be appalled by how the other two professions misunderstand the theory, and then a philosophy major, who are very intimate with the boolean nature of reasoning, has a totally different take on the whole discipline. Yet with out having encountered each other on the topic, all these people think they are on the same page, until they discuss something at the most finite detail.

And dictionaries, oh lets not get started. There are different ones for different uses. The common dictionary only cares to the point that, what makes my car move, it doesn't care about too much detail on what internal bits interact for what reason.

We all think we live in the objective world, but our thoughts always exist in a subjective one.

And then there is this mind trip.., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images
... the map is not the territory,, and ,, when is a chair, not a chair? (Hint: 1.ask a monkey, 2. when a person's name is Chair?)

One of the dictionary heads said something like "It is not our place to dictate how language SHOULD be used but rather to report HOW language is used"