From: b.scott@csuohio.edu   
      
   On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 21:10:38 -0500, William Vetter   
    wrote in   
    in   
   rec.arts.sf.composition:   
      
   [...]   
      
   >>>> Not a very good example:  is a bog standard   
   >>>> technical term in several fields, and I’ve been   
   >>>> familiar with  since before I hit my   
   >>>> teens.   
      
   > These are not big words to me.  [...]   
      
   Then you failed to make your point clearly in the previous   
   post.  Or you assumed that we would simply take your word   
   for it that he was using non-standard terminology, in which   
   case the example was superfluous (and rather pointless).   
      
   [...]   
      
   > Yes, I know substrate is a science word, because I'm not   
   > an idiot.   
      
   I will agree that one can be an unpleasant jerk without   
   necessarily being an idiot.   
      
   > In semiconductor fabrication, nobody uses the word   
   > "reticulate" in place of etching.  They write etch when   
   > they mean etch.   
      
   I have no reason to believe that it’s being used here to   
   mean ‘etch’.  ‘Reticulated’ describes (in general terms) the   
   nature of the etching, not the fact of it.  Of course it’s   
   entirely possible that the term was being misused, but your   
   sample sentence lacks sufficient context for us to determine   
   whether that’s the case.   
      
   [...]   
      
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