"Stay tuned" - the all-digital generation doesn't get this phrase (UNCLASSIFIED)
Dan Goncharoff
thegonch at GMAIL.COM
Tue Apr 3 20:06:00 UTC 2012
You mean, get on the same wavelength?
DanG
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 3:58 PM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:
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> It seems to me that the use of TUNE in the electronic context should have
> had its source in the musical: to tune a violin, piano; a tuning fork; hum
> a tune. Get in tune with. Get your car in tune and it will just hum along.
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