Richard Knoppow wrote:
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Halvor Bjørngård" <halvorb@fastmail.fm>
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> Patentese is fascinating. Of course, these are legal, not technical or
> scientific publications. They are often written as much to obscure
> things as to make them plain. Also, although patents are not supposed to
> be issued for impossible inventions they often are.
>
Yes, quite a puzzle sometimes. I have been wondering, when a recipie is
listed, is this usually the best result they have achieved for the
purpose or intentionally a bit off target to confuse things ?
I suppose different authors and periods have different levels of
"obscuring techniques", the modern ones beeing the worst, but ...
Halvor
Received on Tue May 10 21:01:16 2005
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