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At 12:50 PM 8/4/99 -0500, you wrote:
Hi Jim-
Sorry, but you lost me, too. Colorful languange communicates
only when everybody is waltzing to the same tune. Otherwise your audience
is likely to feel like they've just been chilled out.

Well, Jack, it isn't clear where you are lost -- with the previous post or
with my remarks re someone's complaint that the post wasn't drab.

I understand and appreciate your "waltzing to the same tune" - I don't feel
"chilled" -- Should I respond that what you say makes no sense -- that it
is not English? -- or physics? -- Some pedant _might_, but I wouldn't hold
his/her remarks any higher than the post which gave rise to this little
sidebar.

So you might understand better -- I take the previous "scenery" (I forget
the author) to mean the rest frame, but perhaps I should say what I mean by
"rest".

OTOH, if one has to explain the language, it isn't interesting any more and
we are back to drab.


Jim Green
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