Re:re: comment on "quote without comment"

[George Graves <gmgraves@domain.elided>]

on 7/14/02 7:50 PM, alfa-digest at owner-alfa-digest@domain.elided wrote:

> 
> Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 21:02:50 -0400
> From: "John Hertzman" <johnhertzman@domain.elided>
> Subject: re: comment on "quote without comment"
> 
> George Graves, responding to my quotation from The Times that "Quadrifoglio
> refers to the car's four-cylinder, four-valve engine", writes "to my
> knowledge, no 'Guilia' engined (1600, 1750, 2000cc) consumer model ever had 4
> valves/cylinder".
> 
> Nice touch, George adding a hypothetical misspelling of Giulia,

Thank you, I liked it myself :-)

> but George
> makes a leap of faith in assuming that the author meant "4 valves/cylinder";

I don't really see it as much of a leap of faith. As you point out, a 4
valve 4 cylinder engine would indeed constitute a technological
breakthrough. Maybe the valve could be multiplexed between intake and
exhaust?

> I had assumed he quite literally mean four cylinders, four valves.

> A technological great-leap-forward, which if applied to other systems could
cure
> the "Garbage in, garbage out" equation. A Black Hole, perhaps.
> 
> Still, The Times did manage "Alfa Romeo", and deserves points for that.
> 
> And indeed, one should not uncritically read everything one sees in a
> newspaper, magazine, book, or internet list, with the possible exception of
> this one. I still find the paper usually interesting, often both informative
> and credible, and sometimes amusing. Better than many alternatives - -
> 
> YMProbablywillV-
> 
> John H.


George Graves 
86 GTV-6
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