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Old 29-Nov-2005, 09:06
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If by "roughness" you refer to a "unique characteristic" then I agree entirely.

I've no desire to be pedantic, but as we are talking Ducati I refer to the language of Rome - latin - and the reference to "innovation" by Jools and yourself re the Japanese. The latin "innovare" is to intoduce a truely new idea, method, or product; now whilst I am not professor of industrial design I struggle to identify anything that the Japanese have done that earns them the accolade of "innovare". I'd rather applaud their exceptional genius of "modificare".

We do need to be very careful when handing out Nobel prizes for innovation - "plagiarius" - is rife. It was only on the 15th June 2002 did the "American Scientific Congress" finally agree with what the whole of Italy and the European scientific community had been saying for donkey's years, in that A.G. Bell did not invent the telephone. A destitute immigrant from Florence, one Antonio Meucci did.

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