Re: Metamerism
Re: Metamerism
- Subject: Re: Metamerism
- From: Wire Moore <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 03:02:56 -0700
on 10/26/01 8:26 AM, email@hidden at email@hidden wrote:
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In a message dated 10/26/01 10:14:58 AM, email@hidden writes:
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> C. David may be correct, but I fear if we allow this to happen, we risk
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> diluting the original and correct meaning of the term. Maybe this is
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> advancement, but in my opinion, it is not. Apparently I am one of the
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The universal objection to changes in language. Personally, ten thousand
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people who know a new meaning for metamerism is preferable to a few hundred
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knowing the old one. The other factor here is that standing against new word
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uses tends to prove futile...
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C. David Tobie
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Design Cooperative
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Consider the confusion that Timo Autokari causes with his idiom "accurate
image manipulation" and the consternation felt when AIM memes impede efforts
to assist others in the forums.
A culture is at risk when the most experienced and knowledgeable people
can't teach or clearly convey a subject because deep knowledge is obscured,
overshadowed or drowned by dogmatic or narrow idioms.
While it may be unavoidable that experts of some minds will promulgate the
inkjet-print meme as an idiom because its utility within their niche,
experts of any mind can recognize and convey the relevant range of meanings
when responding to list queries.
Wire Moore