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

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Sunday, April 29, 2007, 1:32
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". -- Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>