On December 6, 2016 at 13:55, jrainey said...
Erine....You're silly....and don't overthink this....
From McMillian Dictionary:
"hone in on something" : to give all your attention to something
So no...hone in is appropriate...
You can always find someone who has things wrong. I found at
[Link: grammar.about.com]Traditionally, a missile homes in (not hones in) on a target. The verb hone means "to sharpen." The verb home means "to move toward a goal" or "to be guided to a target." But some usage guides (see notes below) now recognize hone in on as an acceptable alternative to home in on.
Examples:
Much like a heat-seeking missile, a new kind of particle homes in on the blood vessels that nourish aggressive cancers, before unleashing a cell-destroying drug." (Ewen Callaway, New Scientist, July 2008)
"A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone: you either have it or you don't." (Carl Reiner)
And
Home in, not hone in, is the correct phrase. In the 19th century, the metaphor referred to what homing pigeons do; by the early 20th century, it referred also to what aircraft and missiles do.
"And by the late 20th century, some writers had begun mistaking the phrase by using the wrong verb, hone (= to sharpen) instead of home."
(Bryan A. Garner, Garner's Modern American Usage. Oxford Univ. Press, 2009)
Mcmillan Dictionary is tacitly acknowledging that so many people who are ignorant of the correct term have used "hone" that we now have to recognize that it's understood to have the same sense as "home" in this context.
In our industry, A LOT of people referred to "RF" as "video" in the late 80s. That doesn't make it correct. Worse, using the wrong term impoverishes the language and makes for misunderstandings.
Today, people talk about HDMI over a single wire. Since HDMI connectors are defined as having 19 pins, this makes no sense. Sure, it's HDTV over one wire, but when you leave that out, you accept that you're not expressing yourself accurately and you make it harder for new people in the industry to understand what's being discussed.
Sorry if that was too serious.
