Klarinet Archive - Posting 000566.txt from 2002/11

From: "WILLIAM SEMPLE" <wsemple@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Technical truth via the democratic process
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 23:56:34 -0500

Why does a term require "universal agreement" to be useful and what does
"universal agreement" mean?

>From: Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: Re: [kl] Technical truth via the democratic process
>Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 09:26:48 -0800
>
>My position is much simpler and deals with words using color to describe
>sound character. Only when I see a clear, unambiguous, and mechanical way
>to achieve a certain sound character that is universally agreed to
>as having that color, will I agree that use of such terms has value and
>purpose. Until then, I consider such terms about as useful (forgive my
>graphic analogy) as teats on a bull.
>

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