Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/26/83; site ihuxr.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!vax135!ariel!houti!hogpc!houxm!ihnp4!ihuxr!lew From: lew@ihuxr.UUCP Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: "change in displacement" Message-ID: <467@ihuxr.UUCP> Date: Mon, 13-Jun-83 12:42:38 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxr.467 Posted: Mon Jun 13 12:42:38 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Jun-83 12:16:47 EDT Organization: BTL Naperville, Il. Lines: 13 Curtis Jackson threw gas, not water on my "rate of speed" fire. He quoted the phrase "change in displacement" from Halliday & Resnick. Displacement is a change in position. Webster's gives "the difference between the initial position of a body and any later position" as one definition. I find "change in displacement" much more offensive than "rate of speed". Considering that it occurs in an important definition in an authoritative text, I'm absolutely aghast. I think you will find in general that educators are equally as capable of linguistic and logical atrocities as are small town cops. Lew Mammel, Jr. ihuxr!lew