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OT Semantics of "2-cycle" versus "2-stroke"
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BAR screw you.com wrote: Path: eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!border3.nntp.dca.giga news.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.gig anews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.gigane ws.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2012 15:47:54 -0500 From: BAR screw you.com Newsgroups: rec.boats,rec.motorcycles,rec.motorcycles.dirt Subject: OT Semantics of "2-cycle" versus "2-stroke" Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 16:47:20 -0400 Message-ID: MPG.2a8602e6d8e97036ed5 news.giganews.com References: jvfnkl$n92$1 dont-email.me 5g4o189ive74k0c8lf1bck738sek04n50v 4ax.com jvh7bb$vfs$1 dont-email.me MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/3.0.4 Lines: 50 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-CGl+q0o050vuNscYgphEEfuvUz8aqP06/uNTs6GsfxjoeXKa97ad8pR5Gv6cq5FCKY1i8T/SL5DHfQp!eOW6hmfuEqRykiscZVQIMgpEOn8Ie4ksN4cNucDot BGe2TLHTaiYXEFVEp4yoXbL3Lt+ X-Complaints-To: abuse giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2675 Xref: mx04.eternal-september.org rec.boats:210015 rec.motorcycles:99518 rec.motorcycles.dirt:18767 In article jvh7bb$vfs$1 dont-email.me, jdoe usenetlove.invalid says... David T. Ashley dashley gmail.com wrote: John Doe jdoe usenetlove.invalid wrote: I'm looking at gas/petrol stabilizers, Sea Foam and STA-BIL. On their FAQ page, both of them refer to a "2-stroke" engine as a "2-cycle" engine. Uhg. It's only semantics, but you would think that those manufacturers would know the difference between a "stroke" and a "cycle". Per Merriam-Webster... stroke: the movement in either direction of a mechanical part (as a piston) having a reciprocating motion; also : the distance of such movement cycle: a course or series of events or operations that recur regularly and usually lead back to the starting point "2-stroke" "4-stroke" engine About 3,270,000 results "2-cycle" "4-cycle" engine About 427,000 results (0.48 seconds) Using "cycle" is not a big deal for casual speakers, but besides being less popular, it's semantical nonsense. I believe that using "4-stroke cycle" is more correct than either 4-stroke or 4-cycle. It takes 4 strokes to make a cycle. I'm not talking about technical correctness, I'm referring to a significant semantical blunder. What matters is the number of strokes per cycle. The number of cycles is irrelevant. At least you aren't calling them motors. |
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