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Subject:RE: It did happen on a Friday... From:"John Posada" <JPosada -at- isogon -dot- com> To:"Diane Evans" <diane_evans -at- hotmail -dot- com>, "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 24 Feb 2004 08:49:52 -0500
>What is wrong with "primary" and "secondary"?
Aside from a discussion of the paragraph, there is a difference between
primary/secondary and master/slave.
Primary/secondary give a meaning of importance or hierarchy and
master/slave denotes a reliance of one to the other.
A strobe light system...there is a master strobe. The flash of the
master strobe triggers the flash of the slave strobe. The slave strobe
could be just as important as the master, so I wouldn't consider it a
secondary strobe.
This isn't a repeat of the whole thread of somehow equating a slave
strobe light to a crime against humanity, is it?
