Re: Gloy,  gum and PVA : Practicality & Clear Advice.

Hi

Would someone like to conclude this thread before I die of boredom?

Regards

TMc

On 4 Apr 2006, at 11:30, TERRYAKING@aol.com wrote:

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> RS said
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> >ll have to escape to
> such a weak argument as "that is irrelevant to practice" or "pedantic
> turn of mind" kind of nonesense. If thing's started with better
> arguments, or better yet no such argument at all, we all spare
> subsequent posts of rebuttal.<
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> In practice, it is pedantic to insist that PVA is not a gum
> especially given RS's own admission that 'gum' is a term which is
> difficult to define. It is pedantic , as some did, to insist that
> a gum print made with PVA should be a Gloy print or a PVA print.
>
> Coming back to my short trawl on Google, it appears to be common
> usage that PVA is referred to a gum. As I have already said,
> dictionaries include 'similar' substances in their definition.of
> gums Again on the analogy of the duck, PVA is a gum.
>
> There is no doubt that these overcomplicated discussions, replete
> with jargon, are 'irrelevant' to the practice of gum printing in
> that they afford no help to those wishing to make gum prints.
>
> These points I put forward are not 'arguments', 'weak' or
> otherwise, they are conclusions, inferred from facts. which RS
> would find very difficult to 'rebut'.
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> RS could, of course, follow his procedure, in the archival
> qualities discussion, where he took something I said out of
> context, thus altering the meaning, changed the wording, thus
> further distorting the meaning, and then ridiculed that distortion.
> That is a good example of the 'setting up an Aunt Sally' of which
> Mike Ware was complaining. RS objected to my use of
> 'misunderstood' to describe what he had done. In the circumstances
> 'misunderstood' was a euphemism. Naughty but not nice.
>
> Terry
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Received on Tue Apr 4 04:36:35 2006