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the Omrud
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Areff
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| Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 11:13 pm
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Robert Lieblich wrote:
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What is "plastic glass"?
http://www.fastframes.co.uk/acatalog/Made_to_Measure.html
"All made to measure frames are made using plastic glass"
Chez Lieblich has as shelf on which sit several plastic glasses. We
sometimes use them to drink from.
I could understand an optician advertising plastic lenses for
spectacles.
But the frames?
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For spectacles? Often made from tortoise shells. |
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ray o'hara
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| Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 11:20 pm
Post subject: Re: Plastic Glass |
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"the Omrud" <usenet.omrud@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1d5efe6992a93783989df3@news.ntlworld.com...
Plexiglass or fiberglass or maybe plastic coated safety glass like an auto's
winshield. |
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Robert Lieblich
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| Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 11:33 pm
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the Omrud wrote:
Chez Lieblich has as shelf on which sit several plastic glasses. We
sometimes use them to drink from.
I could understand an optician advertising plastic lenses for
spectacles.
But the frames? Hoo noze?
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Bob Lieblich
Hoo indeed? |
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John Dean
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| Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 12:06 am
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the Omrud wrote:
I'm guessing here, but glass ( OED " 2. Applied in a wider sense to
various other substances, artificial and natural, which have similar
properties or analogous chemical composition." [to glass] ) that is made
of plastic rather than traditional glass?
The "glass" in the protective screens in my Social Security days was
Polycarbonate. And I don't know what they put in the windows of railway
carriages but it doesn't behave like glass when it shatters.
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John Dean
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Wood Avens
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| Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 12:14 am
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On Sat, 6 Aug 2005 19:06:51 +0100, "John Dean"
<john-dean@frag.lineone.net> wrote:
| Quote: | the Omrud wrote:
What is "plastic glass"?
http://www.fastframes.co.uk/acatalog/Made_to_Measure.html
"All made to measure frames are made using plastic glass"
I'm guessing here, but glass ( OED " 2. Applied in a wider sense to
various other substances, artificial and natural, which have similar
properties or analogous chemical composition." [to glass] ) that is made
of plastic rather than traditional glass?
The "glass" in the protective screens in my Social Security days was
Polycarbonate. And I don't know what they put in the windows of railway
carriages but it doesn't behave like glass when it shatters.
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M-W online: 1 : any of various amorphous materials formed from a melt
by cooling to rigidity without crystallization.
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Katy Jennison
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the Omrud
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| Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 12:15 am
Post subject: Re: Plastic Glass |
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Robert Lieblich spake thusly:
| Quote: | the Omrud wrote:
What is "plastic glass"?
http://www.fastframes.co.uk/acatalog/Made_to_Measure.html
"All made to measure frames are made using plastic glass"
Chez Lieblich has as shelf on which sit several plastic glasses. We
sometimes use them to drink from.
I could understand an optician advertising plastic lenses for
spectacles.
But the frames? Hoo noze?
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Ah, yes, I grok plastic glasses, of both the drinking and spectacle
types. I have a one-pint plastic glass which I, er, stole from
Manchester University Student Union in about 1975 (they issued them
when there was a band on, to avoid getting broken glass all down the
stairs). Any my glasses are plastic.
But the uncountable plastic glass seems to be a noxy-moron.
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David
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Robert Lieblich
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| Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 12:42 am
Post subject: Re: Plastic Glass |
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Areff wrote:
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Robert Lieblich wrote:
the Omrud wrote:
What is "plastic glass"?
http://www.fastframes.co.uk/acatalog/Made_to_Measure.html
"All made to measure frames are made using plastic glass"
Chez Lieblich has as shelf on which sit several plastic glasses. We
sometimes use them to drink from.
I could understand an optician advertising plastic lenses for
spectacles.
But the frames?
For spectacles? Often made from tortoise shells.
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Fake tortoise shell (I think if it as noncountable) these days.
Plastic. Not glass. Certainly not plastic glass.
Chez Lieblich has on display a few items made of real tortoise shell.
They're getting pretty expensive. (UK dear)
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Bob Lieblich
Not a Maryland tortoise |
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Paul Wolff
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| Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 5:14 am
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In message <jev9f1d27cmhskq72gij2fm0bn6mv1mlh1@4ax.com>, Wood Avens
<woodavens@askjennison.com> writes
| Quote: | On Sat, 6 Aug 2005 19:06:51 +0100, "John Dean"
john-dean@frag.lineone.net> wrote:
the Omrud wrote:
What is "plastic glass"?
http://www.fastframes.co.uk/acatalog/Made_to_Measure.html
"All made to measure frames are made using plastic glass"
I'm guessing here, but glass ( OED " 2. Applied in a wider sense to
various other substances, artificial and natural, which have similar
properties or analogous chemical composition." [to glass] ) that is made
of plastic rather than traditional glass?
The "glass" in the protective screens in my Social Security days was
Polycarbonate. And I don't know what they put in the windows of railway
carriages but it doesn't behave like glass when it shatters.
M-W online: 1 : any of various amorphous materials formed from a melt
by cooling to rigidity without crystallization.
Like, er, plastic? Thermoplastic, actually, not the other sort, of |
which Bakelite (still a(n) RTM?) was the first commercial success, I
think.
Glassy plastic would have been a better phrase for the frame material -
but is it likely that the frame material was really what they had in
mind? Plastic glass is what you get when you heat glass to several
hundred degrees of hot, approaching the dull red stage (cue the 1950s
Moscow theatre scene).
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Paul
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Mickwick
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| Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 11:16 pm
Post subject: Re: Plastic Glass |
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In alt.usage.english, Paul Wolff wrote:
| Quote: | Plastic glass is what you get when you heat glass to several hundred
degrees of hot, approaching the dull red stage (cue the 1950s Moscow
theatre scene).
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You think that was dull? Clearly you never saw Folkestone rep in the
1970s. Ah, Ian 'Wooden Leg' Clegg, where are you know?
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Mickwick
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