source file: mills2.txt Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 09:08:17 -0800 From: Manuel.Op.de.Coul@ezh.nl (Manuel Op de Coul) Gary says: > Manuel refuted my claim that there is not historical precedent for > "pure" being synonymous with "just", refering to small-whole-number-ratio > (SWNR) pitch relationships. (Or more specifically, I claimed only that I > did not no of any such precedent.) Ok, I was merely saying that the connotation of "pure" has a meaning in tuning theory. Maybe I misread your statement in that. > Adding a new definition to the synonym stew only risks novices thinking > that the two mean two subtly different things. Hmm, I don't see that. Many words have an inherently vague meaning, including "pure". If you take every word literally, life would become difficult. > So I personally think that we ought to accept the hand of vocabulary > cards the English language deals us whenever possible. Languages are constantly changing. It happens all the time that words get new meanings, sometimes they even get the opposite meaning of what they had. Manuel Op de Coul coul@ezh.nl Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 18:36 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA00768; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 18:38:59 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA00766 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA07064; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 09:38:56 -0800 Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 09:38:56 -0800 Message-Id: <62970102173726/0005695065PK2EM@MCIMAIL.COM> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu