Miss, Ma'am or Madam??

[bin2626]

Originally Posted by Lorelyen

You talked about shifting vibes. This is a new age jargon thing about people vibrating and the frequency of vibration being high when things are good and low when they're evil.... or so it goes.

Frequency is just the rate of vibration. I presume, to its users, a high vibration (sometimes they call it a high vibrational level) means a high frequency. Frequency, put simply, is the number of times a regular vibration occurs in one second, otherwise called cycles and indicated by Hz (Herz, after Heirich Herz who provided the first proof of electromagnetic waves).

2GHz means 2 billion cycles per second - a very high frequency (Bluetooth devices work at around that frequency).

So really I was trying to be a bit satirical about the new-ageist appropriation of the term "vibration" without rhyme nor reason except for the Beach Boys' famous song.

Can you tell me how many level of vibrations there are?

[alexandra_of_earth]

I'm thirty and single so I still prefer Miss :).

[Shinsoo]

The word Madam does sound to me like the owner of a brothel--of which I was in one lifetime. However, add an E to the end of it, and my vision quickly changes to that of an elegant, graceful, poised woman of middle age or older.

Madame sounds so much more classy when you add that E!

I get called Ma'am a bit more often nowadays, but up until very recently, I was called "Miss" quite a lot. That's saying a lot since I'm 37 haha