doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com Is the term "watertable" incorrect?

Webster isn't a "most comprehensive" dictionary. It's a dictionary made for Americans. Even my little OED says "Catch of gun-lock holding hammer at full or half-cock. I'd be eaten alive without the OED!

What does it say about "watertable"

It's my gun, I can call it any damned thing I want.

Flintfan, it says you will always think Wonky when you use the term.

I think the term 'water table may have been coined many years ago to describe a surface to take or reference all measurements off for the manufacturing process.
I do not know who the originator was but I believe the Eygtians used a 'Water Table ' as a device for checking the true level of the ground when building the Pyramids.

I think we'll all understand each other whatever term most anyone uses. Watertable, action flat, horizontal datum, whatever. ..

Either way it's not going to change our lives.

You are, of course, perfectly free to use any term you like for a reference to anything. English does indeed have a rich history of borrowings and has as a consequence of its adaptability to technology become a world standard. It has also become a morass of near unintelligible utterances by the less than well educated that also has a rich tradition in English. If you decide to employ a term for a particular thing that was generated by the obviously ignorant and promulgated by much the same then you deny the precision and elegance afforded by what may be the finest linguistic tool currently available.

Considering the lowest common denominator goal of education in the US for the last several decades, I find myself not surprised at the content of the discourse here.

I apologize for the brevity of this post, but I have things to do that are actually important - - - biatch

have a day

Dr.WtS

Wow, such nastiness! I take back what I said about moving this thread to Misfires. It's way too uncivilized even for Misfires. What shall we do... what shall we do??? Is this the part where we cry to Dave?

P.S. this was written before Wonko's edit where I imagined what he might have said where the (censored) appeared. I think he called us (censored). Totally unacceptable! Wahhhhh!