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Subject:Re: Electric vs. electrical From:Dave C <davec2468 -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:Tech Writing <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 15 Jan 2014 08:16:37 -0800
Hi Hannah,
Thank you for your reply.
It’s a “headline”, below the person’s name, on a business card: “Commercial Electric & Electronic Repair”, representing his main skill set/and service provided, .
In the first of your references it looks like the terms are synonymous. In the second it would seem not (when the usage is pertaining to repair of such faults & of such equipment).
Thanks,
Dave
On 15 Jan 2014, at 6:24 AM, Hannah Drake <hannah -at- formulatrix -dot- com> wrote:
> What's the complete sentence?
>
> Resource:
>http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/31649/what-is-the-difference-between-electric-and-electrical-and-their-usage
>
>http://grammarist.com/usage/electric-electrical-electronic/
>
> Perhaps you should use "electrical and electronic repair"
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 8:03 AM, Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 22:57:36 -0500, Dave C <davec2468 -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
>>
>> A friend and I are having a polite disagreement about these 2 terms.
>>>
>>> The phrase I've written is "electric and electronic repair". He says that
>>> it should be "electrical and electronic repair".
>>>
>>> I say that the "ic" ending of the terms makes them parallel whereas the
>>> "al" on one destroys this parallelism.
>>>
>>
>> I'm not sure I understand why, but in this instance I feel that electrical
>> is correct. Perhaps this example will help: The term "electrical
>> engineering" is correct whereas "electric engineering" is not.
>>
>> English is twisty and irregular; you cannot expect parallelism everywhere,
>> and there is no word electronical, thank goodness.
>>
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