Reply #9: Eyeglasses is a poor term for spectacles, generally, [View All]

[MineralMan]

since spectacles are often made with lenses of plastic. Drinking glasses, too, are more often made of other materials than glass than formerly, and so, perhaps should now have another name. Mirrors, however, also glasses, are generally made of glass, so perhaps we should only term them glasses and abandon the imprecision of your other usages. What do you think? Or should I write: What? Do you think?

It becomes even more confusing, this imprecision, since one may look at distant objects, magnified by a glass such as sailors were wont to use. I might examine tiny objects through a glass cover on a slide with my microscope, such cover being sealed to the slide with water glass. The confusion is worsened with every sentence, Boojatta. Precision is needed. Shall we not, now, use the terms spectacles, cups, telescopes, mirrors, and specimen covers? Do we not seek precision? Should we not reserve the use of "glass" to indicate composition, rather than use?

Precision, Boojatta, eliminates confusion. Imprecision is your hallmark. Shall we not let it be so in the future? Shall we think? Shall we post only when posting is useful, educational, or amusing? What? Do you think?