XFool wrote: While all for accuracy myself, I should be fully aware of the degree of absolute and literalistic thinking exhibited by some on TLF (and other BBs). After all, by now, I have surely had enough experience!
My fault for originally being a bit flippant?
So, I didn't get the memo that posting on TLF was actually the same thing as taking a Viva for an Oxford Natural Sciences Tripos! Or is that Cambridge? I'm sure I wouldn't know....
PS. Anyone mention the spring 'balance' ? I really should shut up now.
Ha ha, it took me ages to get over the shock of my Physics teacher telling us that the centrifugal force doesn't really exist, we should talk about centripetal force instead. And when he insisted that we shouldn't talk about letting the cold in on a winter's night, it's the heat which goes out of the house! It all seems so topsy-turvey as William Gilbert used to say.