Question

I share your reservations about Wiki or indeed any other internet site as a rigorous source of information, but I had an interesting conversation with with our tame Professor at work.

Some say he has no birthday and that on a full moon he grows to twice his height.

All we know is that he is called---

Roy

He actually accepts most of Wiki as sound.

Sorry Stefan, that was one step too far from the path.....

Oggy I have no idea what you're talking about - who the hell is Roy? I assume it's a reference to something that's passed me by

I dare say much of Wiki is sound but it's not gospel and they are self appointed experts.

Mike

Boof isn't advisable George it has some vulgar urban meanings, google it and look for ubandictonary if you want to know them.
Like said vulgar so don't blame me

Sorry for writing them down here btw, you were luckily very quick to remove them.

There already is a word for the out of focus blur btw.
Defocus aberration

Yes sorry for writing them down, just came to me I better shouldn't and was already on the way to delete but you were faster
Sorry once again and thank you John.

That's OK, Stefan, we have to remember there is a wide range of ages on this forum.

Want to have some fun everybody??? Let's ask the next competition winner to set BOKEH as next weeks assignment. That should be entertaining.

Martin.

Please re-read my post. If all is not clear, I will explain.

Well that's clear as mud then...

Does anyone know how Bokeh is pronounced ?

What an out-of-touch innocent I am!

But I have to say that "defocus aberration" doesn't really have much of a ring to it, apart from being two words (assuming that "defocus" is a word. I might accept it as verb, but hardly as an adjective).

So the search is on for a suitable monniker which is free of vulgar undertones but sufficiently precise in meaning to confound Unlocker and his anarchistic view of language.

By the way, Unlocker, a word can only mean what its speaker intends if the hearer knows the speaker's intention. Otherwise, it will have two meanings, and if a word is not understood, the speaker has failed. Now I know that some words are known to have more than one meaning, but the wise speaker ensures that the meaning he intends is clear to his audience.

G

Are you insane, you want to open another can of worms...
(For those who dont know this is also another disputed issue)

How come this develops such an argument? Shouldnt we save our passion for camera brand discussions?

That's what I said.

Still bats me. Only Roy I can think of is Roy Rogers?

Mike

Why must everything have a scientific explanation? To me, a good bokeh is an out-of-focus background that makes a pleasant backdrop for the subject. The opposite would be a background with distracting details or colours.

This isn't an argument, it's a discussion that is slowly bringing out the information we need.

Although I suppose technically, as we might say, "So your argument is then....." then we all present our argument for a particular point.

Perhaps I should say it's not a confrontational argument, which is something else altogether and not a good thing.