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Media vs. medium

txpljfg at UABCVSR.CVSR.UAB.EDU txpljfg at UABCVSR.CVSR.UAB.EDU
Mon May 23 15:54:53 EST 1994


This post sounds like a flame to me.  Not every question posted to the
net must be of stupendous import, especially for a newsgroup as quiet
as this one.  Give the guy a break.



> Subject: Media vs. medium
> From: T. V. Rajan, rajan at neuron.uchc.edu
> Date: 20 May 1994 11:25:32 GMT
> In article <2ri6nc$8ur at threed.uchc.edu> T. V. Rajan,
> rajan at neuron.uchc.edu writes:
> >   I have always wondered why immunologists say media when they mean
> >medium, as in "I added 10 ml of cultured 'media'" ?  
> >
> >T. V. Rajan, M.D., Ph.D.
> >Professor and Chairman, Department of Pathology
> >University of Connecticut Health Center
> >Farmington, CT 06030.
> 
> As the Chairman of the Department of Pathology at the University of
> Connecticut Health Center, don't you have anything more important to
> wonder about?  Media, medium...who cares?  We're not known for our
> spelling either.
> 

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