(September 10, 2013 at 6:46 pm)Chuck Wrote: Physicists have agile minds that are able to manipulate multiple layers of symbolic meanings. This makes following their expressions an edifying mental exercise beyond the mere face values of their meanings, and offer some insight into how their minds work and make the connections between the different layers.
Conflating differing meanings of a word to make an incorrect statement isn't a good mental exercise.
Quote:This is analogous to the way following the writtings of masters of an language is an edifying mental exercise that couldn't be matched by reading cliffsnotes, and offer insight into the concept of the workings of linguistic mastery.
Inasmuch as language isn't abused, I've no problem.
