Re: mass as a verb

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From: John Mallinckrodt
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 04:18

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I mass, U. Mass., he/she masses, hmm...

I've got to side with Van on this one.  And it's not simply
because I don't like conjugating nouns--although that would be
enough.  If you really want to determine the mass of something
then you'd better apply a known force to it and measure its
acceleration.  I think I can make a pretty good case that that's
exactly what a spring scale does and that, therefore, spring
scales measure mass.

John Mallinckrodt
Cal Poly Pomona
ajmallinckro@csupomona.edu

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