So they can fly off a runway. > On Jul 24, 2015, at 5:17 am, John <sesso...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > ... and why do people park their cars in driveways & drive them on parkways? > > On 7/23/2015 12:24 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote: >> speaking of obscure language questions... >> >> As my sons were growing up, we wondered what happened to Frigerators. >> We knew about re-frigerators, but where were the originals? >> A big landfill somewhere? >> When the milk gets warm and you put it back in the refrigerator, whats >> happening? >> You replacing the original frigeration it had before breakfast? >> >> And Be'Jesus. >> If you can scare the Be'Jesus out of somebody, where does it go? >> How is it replenished? >> How do you know if you have enough? >> >> Regards, Bob S. >> >> >> On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 9:27 PM, Igor PDML-StR <pdml...@komkon.org> wrote: >>> >>> I know that there are quite a few language and grammar geeks among PDMLers. >>> That's why I thought I'd share this linguistic question that >>> got me puzzled. >>> >>> I see that almost everybody who is talking about Circular Polarizers uses an >>> abbreviation "CPL", either as a noun or adjective (e.g. CPL filter). The >>> curious part is that none of the online photography articles and reviews >>> that talks about "CPL" bothers to deabbreviate it. >>> (Just as a reference, all scientific journals where I've published my >>> articles require to define any abbreviation before using it for the first >>> time, even for those that are common in the field.) >>> >>> So, my question is "What does the `L' in CPL stand for?" >>> I have 3 versions of what it might be (or what photographers who use that >>> abbreviation might mean), including a standard one that is typically used in >>> optical methods in physics, chemistry and related areas of science. None of >>> those 3 would be strictly speaking correct. >>> So, I am suspecting that I might be missing something more obvious. >>> >>> So, what does the `L' in CPL stand for? >>> >>> Thank you, >>> >>> Igor >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> PDML@pdml.net >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> > > -- > Science - Questions we may never find answers for. > Religion - Answers we must never question. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions.
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