Norris Lockley wrote:
> Chuck Schmidt wrote:
> "Split or Bifurcated
> One man's double tapered seat stays are another man's biconical"
>
> Touche! Chuck..but I did qualify my description by saying "two-legged
> split". Something that is split can have more than two legs, sections,
> portions..so hence in posh parlance I suppose that on this side of the
> Atlantic we would call a four-legged split rivet a quadrifurcate
> one..or
> even a quadrilobate one..or more elaborately a quadrigeminous one.
On this side of the Atlantic, well more like on the Pacific Coast in my particular case, the inference would be that if something is split that would mean in two. More than a single split would have to be qualified. Just as a seat stay can be tapered any number of times I suppose?
Of course, Out West we value Plain Talk, pardner.
Chuck Schmidt
South Pasadena, Southern California
United States of America
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