Re: USAGE: -ic(al) Re: [CONLANG] Most developed conlang

On 4/28/07, T. A. McLeay <conlang@...> wrote:
> Also, I was reading an BBC article today about simulating a mouse brain
> in a computer, and the researchers who did it are quoted as saying:
> "they had seen 'biologically consistent dynamical properties' emerge as
> nerve impulses flowed through the virtual cortex". I would have expected
> "dynamic properties".
That's a technical distinction in science, c.f. Terrestrial Dynamical
Time.  The adjective "dynamical" means "of or pertaining to a
dynamical system", which see
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamical_system).  That's different
from the general adjective "dynamic", which just means "subject to
change over time, not static".


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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>