[Healeys] Semantic Battles over Silly Things

[editorgary at aol.com]

It's journalists like us who despair of readers like you who don't read
carefully. Note that I made no claim of my credentials, scientific or
otherwise.
What I wrote was that "according to them [Road & Track], antifreeze doesn't
raise the boiling point."
Which is a reasonable interpretation, given that the definition noted that
antifreeze in coolant did lower the freezing point of the coolant.
G.







Gary Anderson
Editor-in-Chief, The Star Magazine
Mercedes-Benz Club of America





-----Original Message-----
From: Skip Saunders <tfsbj7 at mindspring.com>
To: editorgary <editorgary at aol.com>; healeys <healeys at autox.team.net>
Sent: Thu, Jun 13, 2013 11:54 am
Subject: RE: [Healeys] Semantic Battles over Silly Things


See:
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://hellafunctional.com/wp-content/up
loads/2011/11/boilpt.gif&imgrefurl=http://hellafunctional.com/?p%3D629&h=395
&w=620&sz=30&tbnid=UOITpTaaMnxGoM:&tbnh=87&tbnw=137&zoom=1&usg=__e49vC07imee
gXb98FVGWrsxgz3Q=&docid=Pn0JlHBXXYobNM&sa=X&ei=ZBS6UdvIBKns0gGRsIHADA&ved=0C
C8Q9QEwAA&dur=1182

I wonder sometimes about the journalistic excellence of some car magazine
writers....maybe there is a semantic difference to be claimed?

(sorry for the long URL, but a quick google of "antifreeze boiling point"
will reveal that indeed (regardless of whatever scientific credentials
claimed by journalists) antifreeze does indeed elevate the boiling point.)