Re: Northrop Grumman to Buy Builder of SpaceShipOne, First Manned Commercial Space Rocket

Einar <einarbb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

:
:Fred J. McCall wrote:
:> simberg.interglobal@xxxxxxxxx (Rand Simberg) wrote:
:>
:> :
:> :>Remember owning a toy steamengine. Knew even then that steam
:> :>is the air version of water, while water was the fluid version of
:> :>water.
:> :
:> :Ah, so you are ignorant of the meaning of the terms.
:> :
:>
:> Back off just a bit, Rand. He's using 'fluid' as equivalent to
:> 'liquid' (which is certainly a common language usage). How good are
:> YOUR specialized vocabularies in something other than English?
:>
:> Hint: Einar, 'fluid' means something that 'flows' and will generally
:> take the shape of its container. This is true of both liquids and
:> gasses. Thus air (a gas) is a fluid under normal conditions.
:>
:
:Thinking back, I think my old grammar schoole textbooks didn´t define
:fluid in this way.
:

Then they're wrong.


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