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I guess we just can't fix stupid?
DIR By: Michael Caswell
Date: June 23, 2020, 4:14 am
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What is this? Yet another attempt to rename an earthen
embankment dam?
Good grief! They never give up, do they!
We know why they hate the word DAM. It's because all the rules
pertaining to dams can be applied here, and that goes against
their entire argument.
Won't work! Sorry!
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Confronting the STCC has ALWAYS been about trying to fix stupid,
hasn't it?
DIR By: Doug K
Date: June 23, 2020, 6:52 am
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It's beyond belief, but right in line with this Facebook group,
Facebook should be ashamed to have something like this on their
platform... it's bordering on idiotic.
It's pretty easy to see that this group only thinks what it's
Leaders do, no effort to learn word meanings, no effort to
improve their sad defense of "words" being used. If Ms. Agte,
Maier or Gouldthorpe say it's true, then it must be, right?
Yes Mr. Burrows, the words "Dam and Embankment" are different.
One starts with a D, the other an E. One is only 3 letters long,
the other is 10 letters... and that seems to be enough for this
group to say they are "very different". Of course
Merrium-Webster may have something to say about that one.
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Can't get any more clear on those Synonyms can you?
Let's look at another website for how Embankment is used in the
English Language
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Once again you see the word DAM being added to the term
"embankment", though most say it might be redundant in this
case. Simply stated the difference between and Embankment and
Dam are almost non-existent, Earthen Embankments are almost
always used to hold back WATER. It's either a Dam or a Levee and
that is what MOST people understand as "common sense".
Unless of course that person lacks even common sense
And the key to the word Embankment is that function of
IMPOUNDING water. If there is no water being held back, then the
word used the most to describe that earthen shape is "a hill".
Could be hillside, could be rolling hill, but if the hill has
WATER on the other side, and not more dirt...it's referred to as
an earthen dam or earthen levee. It is that simple, and a 5 year
old can understand.
Dams hold back water for long extended times by definition,
always "wet". Earthen Embankment Dams are the easiest to build
and leak the most.
Levees are embankments that are put up to hold back water during
a flood event, temporary wall so a stream, river or creek that
has overflowed it's natural course and save the surrounding area
from floods. They are normally DRY and used only when an event
produces more water, or if along the ocean, more waves or
storms.
At least this group is not calling these embankments by the
incorrect term of levee anymore... that showed an even bigger
lack of knowledge on their part.
Nope, you are right, some things like this, just can't be fixed,
like people following a "lost cause" and the poor leadership
that goes along with that cause.
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