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Dear Sparteye,
I somehow missed your [silver shiny coin]Destinesia[/silver shiny coin] up above!
That is a very cool word for forgetting what you were going to say or do upon getting where you were going! Terrific coin there!
Best regards,
DubDub
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to me this sounds like a more useful word to use when you've forgotten where you were going, which happens to me quite frequently. -joe (I should be home now) friday http://home.mn.rr.com/wwftd/
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I'm glad you like it WW, but I cannot take credit for coining it. I heard it elsewhere, and have adopted it as a term both necessary and evocative.
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It's common for my wife to say as we approach a house, "the TV's on", when we may be 15 metres or more away, and the audio is inaudible.
The audio may be inaudible but the "raster pattern" - the 15,600-cycles-per-second sweep signal (something like 650 lines per frame, 24 frames per second) can be VERY loud, and easily heard out in the street through an open window, if the set isn't shielded somehow.
(I used to be able to do that too but then I got older and lost some of my high-frequency hearing. Sigh.)
And inexpensive dimmer switches often hum with a 60-cycle frequency, the way fluorescent lights do (though I think it's the ballast, not the bulb, that does the humming?)
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The audio may be inaudible but the "raster pattern" - the 15,600-cycles-per-second sweep signal...[rant alert] I hear it all the time! It is the same *issue I have with the "High Quality" sound of digital recording. The relatively slow sampling rate of first generation CD's at 40,000 (+-) that has to measure frequency, volume, wave shape etc... at that speed, it just disregards or has 100% error at frequencies over 16500. Shure it's missing the snap-crackle-pop and hiss of a standard cassette and/or vinil record player, but the musical sounds in those frequencies are just not there. A piano sounds like it is inside carboard box when it is digitally recorded. Cymbals sound like trash can lids (OK I'm exagerating)... you get the picture. People are now "trained" by not listening to these "ambient sounds" so now they just don't listen for them. A prime example that almost everyone I know will tell me they can hear (sorry Dr.Bill): as you walk from a hallway into a room, or as you walk from a small room into an open space... even with no sound, you can sense the size of the room by the sounds you are or are not hearing... (do so with your eyes closed)! Just another reason to enjoy live music... Now, If I could only get them to turn it down... grumble, mumble, fumble...[end rant] 
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the traffic was neatly collating
Your choice of words was deeper than you knew, de Troy. While cars were collating "neatly", traffic was "busy". At some level you must have been aware that traffic which is not collating so neatly is colliding.
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as you walk from a hallway into a room, or as you walk from a small room into an open space... even with no sound, you can sense the size of the room by the sounds you are or are not hearing...
Can you explain that to me again. I know *exactly what you are talking about but why does it happen?
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Dragging this thread back to its roots by the scruff of the neck, and mixing metaphors as a by-product ... When the younger of my two sisters was about four years old, I was walking her home from Kindy one windy day. Along the route there was a park with a whole lot of young conifers growing at the bottom of it. The wind was making the conifers bend in turn, a kind of ripple effect, with the next ripple beginning before the last had ended, and the amount of bend per ripple being, of course, dictated by the strength of the wind gust. Sarah was fascinated by the effect and we went and sat on the swings to watch it for a while. "Oh look at the trees bouncing in the wind!" she happily exclaimed. I was fifteen years old at the time, and that impressed the hey out of me, even then. It was such an apt and exact description of what was happening. 
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