Re: Interesting Words
| From: | Zach Bean <zb@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, November 6, 2001, 19:57 |
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Delurking briefly to say some stuff about dirt...
On Tue, 6 Nov 2001 10:17:26 -0500, Muke Tever scribbled (metaphorically
speaking, of course):
> > Clay isn't mud either.
>
> Bah! IMHO 'clay' and 'mud' are positiver and negativer labels for the same
> thing (although mud may be more liquid, and clay more solid)
This sort of thing depends mostly on your definition of "dirt." If "dirt" ==
"soil", then clay (and in fact sand, as well as silt) is dirt. Or, more
precisely, a component of dirt. As I recall, soils are very infrequently
purely clay, or purely sand, or purely silt. Usually they're a combination of
all three, leading to lovely triangle diagrams naming the various types of soil
(leading to such distinct terms as "loamy sand" and "sandy loam")[1].
On the other hand, if "dirt" != "soil", then it's mostly a personal thing, I
think.
Zach Bean
Relurking...