Re: [9fans] A prick into the wasps' nest ;-)

[Nigel Roles <nigel@9fs.org>]

Andrew Simmons wrote:

>Surely a shade harsh? And a pedant might claim that PAL, NTSC, and SECAM are
>colour encoding systems, and as such independent of frame rate. Not to
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Yes, I think you'd have to be a pedant to claim that they weren't video 
standards.
Sorry if I appeared harsh; It was the preceding sequence of gun related
stuff that got me going; I was about to moan about it anyway, and then hit
this email.

>mention the fact that Fowler prefers "recognize" to "recognise", and claims
>that "synthetize", not "synthesize" is the correct formation.
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I have to admit that synthetize was a new one on me; I can now bore at 
parties
with that one. Looking back I see that 'interpolate' would have been a more
accurate word in the first place.

>Oh right, so you have to know what you're talking about if you're going to
>post to 9fans? If that were the case, then I'd certainly never ... ah, I see
>what you mean. Better shut up now.
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With a chap from Snell & Wilcox on the list I thought through what I 
posted, yes!