Quote Originally Posted by ixtapalapaquetl View Post
Would you mind defining what you mean by stroke and cut? I think this would ease our communication.
Backhand stroke and hitting the ball in tennis? Forehand stroke and hitting the ball? The hitting is one "thing", the stroke another. Same stroke creates different hits depending on an almost infinite amount of variables.
I was going to quote the Oxford dictionary but the entry on cut was, to put it mildly, enormous.

Quote Originally Posted by ixtapalapaquetl View Post
I have actually spent a considerable amount of time thinking about this problem...
Im very sorry for my disrespectful and clumsy formulation in my previous post. Im not even sure my criticism is valid since this isnt a scientific paper. I wasnt entirely paying attention to what I was doing, e.g. posting on the interwebz actually communicating with another human not just the voices in my head.

Quote Originally Posted by ixtapalapaquetl View Post
Slicing itself is a relatively simple mechanical action; so simple, in fact, that it would be quite shocking if slicing could not be easily quantified.
On this we may well have to agree to disagree, and maybe that is the heart of the matter.
I find it hard to see the point of a two dimensional analysis of something like this and critiquing your analysis by something it is not trying to be, is not very helpful of me.

One could say it is downright stupid, but you handled adversity with such aplomb in your earlier thread I thought I could get away with it.

Please have a beer on me:

I gotta go back to lurking. I need to learn how to hone. Once I have learned that I might do some experiments with a knife and a tomato...

kind regards
/H