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    Re: Definition Drift, WAS: Bowditch 1995 Table 18
    From: Jim Thompson
    Date: 2005 Feb 3, 16:44 -0400

    Well, heh-heh, no, I suspect that some kids unfamiliar with analog
    timepieces might in fact consider them arcane, much the way they privately
    view our increasingly archaic generation (obscure, mysterious, and
    complicated).
    
    Jim
    
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Ron Roizen
    > unsolicited and pedantic language footnote:  The word "arcane" means
    > obscure, mysterious, and complicated; the writer was probably intending
    > "archaic."
    >
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Jared Sherman
    > Personally I still
    > prefer an analog clock and watch for many reasons, but it is becoming the
    > arcane tool.
    
    
    

       
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