Re: pure just and tempered

Gary Morrison wrote:

>What Dan may not be aware of is that many people use "pure"
as a synonym for "just [intonation]". That in the sense
that if you were to look up "pure" in a sufficiently
unabridged dictionary, it would appear as an official
discipline-specific defintion.

>I personally don't think that "pure" should be used as
anything other than a general-purpose adjective. To me it's
judgemental enough a word that it could lead to
misunderstandings of this nature. To use a more extreme
example to illustrate the point, I wouldn't recommend
"borrowing" into tuning-specific terminology, words like
"stupid" or "boring".

Hi Gary,

I was indeed aware of the use of "pure" as a JI synonym...
My carrying on is/was slung in the direction of the extreme
(and only the extreme) "entangled baloney..." that can/does
(but that is not to say _automatically_ will/does) accompany
tuning related usage of the words "pure..." and "just..."
and "tempered..." [But as I'm probably in violation of a
general consensus cease and desist order here -- I'd best
stop my yakin!]

Dan