I was an official classroom English teacher for 3 years after being exposed to numerous English teachers through country school, high school, college, and a writer's group. I feel qualified to comment on the correct terms but this is not what I am going to do today although it could be a good way to get one's mind off of the things happening in our country. I might divert my mind some other way but I'm not going down the rabbit hole of the proper terms for a drinking vessel. Not when I have been so unconcerned about a proper vessel that I have dipped my hand in a clear running stream to get a drink or allowed a classmate to pump water from the outdoor pump into a cupped hand rather than take the time to run into the schoolhouse to get my own personal cup.
So "empty" space "teams with energy...and transient particles" in your words. I suppose this could mean there is really no absolute vacuum, only partial ones. At any rate, partial vacuums and suction play a major role in physics as we apply them to power production. Thats wonder full!
That was fun reading. we have such variety of hand held objects to drink our preferred liquid. But I protest when they give me Styrofoam. It should not be legal as a drinking glass, cup or mug. It should be outlawed. Can't our governor make a law against producing that "junk"?
I was an official classroom English teacher for 3 years after being exposed to numerous English teachers through country school, high school, college, and a writer's group. I feel qualified to comment on the correct terms but this is not what I am going to do today although it could be a good way to get one's mind off of the things happening in our country. I might divert my mind some other way but I'm not going down the rabbit hole of the proper terms for a drinking vessel. Not when I have been so unconcerned about a proper vessel that I have dipped my hand in a clear running stream to get a drink or allowed a classmate to pump water from the outdoor pump into a cupped hand rather than take the time to run into the schoolhouse to get my own personal cup.
I laughed out loud, Helen. And I loved your using the term rabbit hole from an earlier column!
So "empty" space "teams with energy...and transient particles" in your words. I suppose this could mean there is really no absolute vacuum, only partial ones. At any rate, partial vacuums and suction play a major role in physics as we apply them to power production. Thats wonder full!
I suspect you might understand current physics better than I do!
And then there is the bowl, which I gather is larger than a cup. At least that's what my experience in local eating places tells me when I order soup!
Love it!
That was fun reading. we have such variety of hand held objects to drink our preferred liquid. But I protest when they give me Styrofoam. It should not be legal as a drinking glass, cup or mug. It should be outlawed. Can't our governor make a law against producing that "junk"?
I wish.