Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Understood, Don. :-) I did write that I was sure a pejorative meaning was not intentional and I'm not sure a casual reader would take this use as rehabilitative. End of thread. I hope. Seth LaK 9 - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Dory" <dorysrus@mindspring.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 10:07 PM Subject: RE: [Leica] ?hammerton LHSA viewfinder mag question? > Seth, > Now you know as a LHSA member that I was using the word propaganda in > the good sense of spreading the light of Leica to the world. If you > have read my posts over the years you must realize that one, I don't run > in any pack, and two, I love to tweak the language. It is a delight to > use words that have been allowed to become somewhat unsavory in a manner > that rehabilitates the word somewhat. > > Who could complain about Leica ownership and use propagating around the > world? > > Don > dorysrus@miindspring.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Seth > Rosner > Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 9:00 AM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] ?hammerton LHSA viewfinder mag question? > > Hello Don: > > You are correct about the 0.72 finder on the hammertone MP. > > I will remonstrate mildly about your application of the "propaganda" > epithet > to LHSA. Webster defines the word as: "any systematic, widespread, > deliberate indoctrination or plan for such indoctrination: now often > used in > a derogatory sense, connoting deception or distortion." > > The word derives from "propagate" and has been used in terms of the > "propagation of the faith" a neutral meaning that carries no negative > sense. > But for the last 60 years or so. it bears connotations of Nazi Germany, > fascist Italy, Soviet Russia and the rest of the Communist world. > > And is an incorrect and oblique slap at LHSA and one that I am certain > was > not intentional. > > Loving you all the same, > > Seth LaK 9 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Don Dory" <dorysrus@mindspring.com> > To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 7:29 AM > Subject: RE: [Leica] ?hammerton LHSA viewfinder mag question? > > > > Rei, > > It is my understanding that the Hammertone will only be available in > > 0.72. But you know that Sherry or DAG will happily make yours the > only > > one that is an 0.85. > > > > Others can cheerfully correct me as I am going off memories of the > LHSA > > propaganda. > > > > Don > > dorysrus@mindspring.com > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Rei > > Shinozuka > > Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 6:56 AM > > To: Leica Users Group (LUG) > > Subject: [Leica] ?hammerton LHSA viewfinder mag question? > > > > may i prevail upon this group's erudition and ask > > if the LHSA Hammertone finish MP is only being released > > as a 0.72? > > > > if an 0.85 version were available, my wife's long search > > for a 10th anniversary present for me would be over. > > otherwise, i'd have to settle for a plain-jane chrome MP > > (which is very pretty too!) > > > > -rei > > > > -- > > Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com > > Ridgewood, New Jersey > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html