[Healeys] Semantic Battles over Silly Things

[Skip Saunders]

Actually, I was not trying to discredit you so much . (in a sense you are
merely repeating nonsense.something quite common among everyone).   I was
actually commenting on the Road and Track which was actually professionally
published, with an editor, and with all kinds of "checks" supposedly in
place to prevent poor information from spreading.   (you had no such
"backup" for your posting. so a certain amount of leeway is granted to you.)

 

You are merely the John Q. Public that might believe what he hears/reads
from Fox News.   ( or from NBC for that matter .. Just to be "fair and
balanced")

 

In any case it is Not a reasonable conclusion. maybe that is the difference
between a journalist and a scientist.   Just because the freezing point
lowers does not imply anything about the boiling point.   It is always
worthwhile to go to an original (and creditable) source. apparently Road and
Track is not.

 

Try this instead?

http://www.meglobal.biz/media/product_guides/MEGlobal_MEG.pdf

 

Thanks

-skip-

 

 

From: editorgary at aol.com [mailto:editorgary at aol.com] 
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 3:37 PM
To: tfsbj7 at mindspring.com; healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Semantic Battles over Silly Things

 

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
<http://hellafunctional.com/?p%3D629&h=395> &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.)