[Jewelry making - Article 00362] - Re: [Orchid] What is a "Mechanical Vocabulary?"

[David Barnett]

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    I would suggest, Stephanie, that what Thomas Mann meant by "good
    mechanical vocabulary" had less to do with your linguistic or lexical
    distinctions when speaking about mechanical workings, as your innate
    and learned inclinations to understand how mechanical elements
    interact to produce required results and degrees of freedom. Perhaps
    you have a sense of when a two-axis joint is appropriate and elegant
    and how to straightforwardly improvise one from at-hand materials, as
    opposed to someone who knows just one trick, such as how to make a
    ball joint to address most movement issues. When one is said to have
    a good "musical vocabulary", it is not meant that one knows lots of
    Italian or German terms for tempo and dynamics, but that one has a
    feel for musical devices of counterpoint, orchestration, motif,
    style, and so on. In this sense, "vocabulary" is meant more
    metaphorically, such as an artist's "visual vocabulary", or the
    "language" of music or architecture, 


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