ionbeam
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The intake is quieted by tuning the Helmholtz resonator. Always use a $10 phrase where a $0.05 word would due
Airbox ?
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wheatonFJR
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The intake is quieted by tuning the Helmholtz resonator. Always use a $10 phrase where a $0.05 word would due
Especially if being engaged as a technical consultant. Never speak and express solutions in simple, easily understood terms when higher monetary revenue streams may be awarded to the corporate entity that can express simple thoughts in language that is more inscrutable than is neccessary.
Of course I am kidding, but I just had to laugh at your remark.
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The ionbeam jug band pointing out his helmholtz resonator:
When it comes to being inscrutable, how much is too much?
Can one be more inscrutable? Would that then be being inscrutabeler?
When it comes to being inscrutable, how much is too much?
Can one be more inscrutable? Would that then be being inscrutabeler?
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wheatonFJR
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Yes, of course it's better to be plain spoken.
However, they don't call 'em $10 words for nuttin.
THAT's why I didn't know scrutable was a real word...at $10, I can't afford to use it!
ionbeam
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In this day and age where an average engineering degree can cost $60-$100k you have to use $10 phrases to recoup the investment. Even if your coworkers, friends and family have *no idea* what you just said. As a brilliant intellectual once said:
“If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with ********.”
― W. C. Fields
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wheatonFJR
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Speaking of airboxes, the band above looks like the kind of band I'd like to play in.The ionbeam jug band pointing out his helmholtz resonator:
Well, at the risk of being pedantic, the word scrutable is not actually the antithesis of the word inscrutable.
While inscrutable means "difficult to understand", scrutable doesn't mean "easy to understand" or plain spoken. It means something that can be understood through careful scrutiny, or something that is open to scrutiny.
If you are going to "baffle them with" $10 words, you'll get extra points for using them correctly.
Hell, now I gotta go look up 'pedantic'...Well, at the risk of being pedantic, the word scrutable is not actually the antithesis of the word inscrutable.
While inscrutable means "difficult to understand", scrutable doesn't mean "easy to understand" or plain spoken. It means something that can be understood through careful scrutiny, or something that is open to scrutiny.
If you are going to "baffle them with" $10 words, you'll get extra points for using them correctly.
And just to combat thread drift, I haven't touched my airbox since I bought the bike. I'm thinking just cleaning or replacing my air filter would be a good move at this point.
wheatonFJR
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You're kinda liking this thread drift, aincha?Well, at the risk of being pedantic, the word scrutable is not actually the antithesis of the word inscrutable.
While inscrutable means "difficult to understand", scrutable doesn't mean "easy to understand" or plain spoken. It means something that can be understood through careful scrutiny, or something that is open to scrutiny.
If you are going to "baffle them with" $10 words, you'll get extra points for using them correctly.
But you made assumptions in your pontification...that I was, in fact, defining scrutable with the word "plain spoken"...which I wasn't.
If you is gonna make an analysis and conclusion of erroneous wordification by someone else...it be good if you make sure all the dots connect in your word theoryizing.
I think we've got the airbox thing covered...there's too much "air" in here, and some needs to be let out.
This thread could have been closed after post #15.
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After reading through all the coments I have forgotton what the post was all about.
Oh yeah, Air boxes. doesn' t seem like a highly technical term.
Dave
Oh yeah, Air boxes. doesn' t seem like a highly technical term.
Dave
bgross
Recusant Infidel
Air box good.
Band with mandolin and dobro also good.
Mongo happy.
Band with mandolin and dobro also good.
Mongo happy.
I dunno. It could refer to a pugilist who prepares for a fight by "boxing the air" if no shadow is available. "The champ air boxes to train for fights".After reading through all the coments I have forgotton what the post was all about.
Oh yeah, Air boxes. doesn' t seem like a highly technical term.
Dave
Or it could be any generic box with air in it.
One must be warry, warry carefu when stawking the wasckly aiw boxes.
