Re: Jimmy's finger has a "fracture," not a "break"

["Wyatt Brake" <wyattbrake@xxxxxxxxx>]

I guess I have to be the asshole that a "fracture" IS a "break"...
break=fracture...synonyms.

I get what this friend of Jimmy is saying, but the anal-retentive in
me is crying out to correct this.

My apologies -



On 11/2/07, Christie Reimer <reimcol@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  Tangerineman wrote:
> > I'm still in shock over this. Why/how did this happen now?
> > (First one 'oo alludes to "the curse", I'm gonna shoot 'im,
> > right?)
>
> Ain't gonna be me!!
>
> I e-mailed one of Jimmy's friends asking what he knows about the situation.
> His reply doesn't indicate to which hand the injury was, but the news sounds
> positive.  Here's the statement:
>
> "As you may have heard by now, it was a fracture, not a break, and he's
> expected to be in top form by Dec. 10th."
>
> How I interpret this is that "not a break" indicates the bone injury is less
> horizontal than vertical, if that helps.  A nondisplaced fracture would mean
> that the bones didn't break across, but more just got cracked and misaligned
> a bit, vertically.  Painful, but not as much potential damage as a complete
> break *across* the bone of the finger.
>
> I'm not probably explaining this terribly well, and I'm hurrying, but it
> might give you an idea of what I think this means.  I think it's quite
> hopeful.
>
> "C"
>
>