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« Reply #15 on: 18:56:17, 13-08-2007 » |
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See? think of it as your own little plague-round.
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« Reply #16 on: 18:56:32, 13-08-2007 » |
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Ooh, I can tell this is going to be the bestest thread ever!  I personally would have put a semicolon at the start of that sentence instead of a comma. You should not start a sentence with punctuation. |
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« Reply #17 on: 18:57:58, 13-08-2007 » |
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You should not start a sentence with punctuation.
Nor should one. Except the first of a pair of brackets or quotation marks, naturally ... |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #18 on: 18:58:07, 13-08-2007 » |
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preceeding Do I even need to say anything?  I think you just did   |
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« Reply #19 on: 19:12:36, 13-08-2007 » |
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This is not a thread. In a thread every post answers the immediately preceeding, whereas we have spawned multi-threaded branched conversations.
Have you been to the Waffle thread recently? One might add, "Have you been to the 'Picture Association' thread recently?" |
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« Reply #20 on: 19:17:40, 13-08-2007 » |
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This is not a thread. In a thread every post answers the immediately preceeding, whereas we have spawned multi-threaded branched conversations.
Have you been to the Waffle thread recently? One might add, "Have you been to the 'Picture Association' thread recently?" Or, more accurately (given what I take to have been incre's meaning), "Have you been to the 'Picture Association Thread' recently?" |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #21 on: 19:21:56, 13-08-2007 » |
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Is there a danger that, having started life as a thread devoted to pedantry, this thread is sinking into pedanticism?
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« Reply #22 on: 19:47:44, 13-08-2007 » |
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I may not be being pedantic here but, as moderator and administrator, wishing this forum/site to be as useful as possible to music fans and music researchers, I want to point out that the playful spellings of composers' names makes the search facility on this forum pretty damn useless. Not wishing to hijack this thread, nor a Dimitri S. thread, I will relocate this message and it's responses very soon, but I'd like some proper mature discussion on the subject of composers' names' spellings. If all my CDs of works by Shostakovich spell his name Shostakovich and I want to learn more about Shostakovich's String Quartets then in the search box of this forum I am going to type Shostakovich and instruct the program to search for thread titles with Shostakovich in the title..... ..... but if I do that then I will not find the recent thread about his quartets, though I will find a thread that is NOT about his quartets...........  Help!  Shall we ban or correct all silly spellings? (ones that do not appear on CDs or in modern music dictionaries) John W |
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Tony Watson
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« Reply #23 on: 19:48:55, 13-08-2007 » |
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I'll give you pedantry.
Just before tonight's Prom, the announcer said that the overture starts with a horn call at the beginning. Well, it wouldn't start with it at the end, or end with it at the start, would it?
Also, the prospectus says that Weber immortalized Shakespeare's King of the Fairies. I thought Shakespeare had already immortalized him.
PS: the conductor looks like Jasper Carrot.
PPS: It was actually a fine performance of the Oberon overture.
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« Reply #24 on: 19:53:02, 13-08-2007 » |
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I'll give you pedantry.
Just before tonight's Prom, the announcer said that the overture starts with a horn call at the beginning. Well, it wouldn't start with it at the end, or end with it at the start, would it?
I don't see why it couldn't end with it at the start. Beethoven's 5th ends with dum-dum-dum-DUM at the start, doesn't it? |
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« Reply #25 on: 19:53:51, 13-08-2007 » |
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PS: the conductor looks like Jasper Carrot.
Carrott, actually. |
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« Reply #26 on: 19:57:46, 13-08-2007 » |
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Uh oh - I can see the Rachmaninov/Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev/Prokofieff battle rearing its head soon |
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'These acts of keeping politics out of music, however, do not prevent musicology from being a political act . . .they assure that every apolitical act assumes a greater political immediacy' - Philip Bohlman, 'Musicology as a Political Act'
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« Reply #27 on: 20:02:53, 13-08-2007 » |
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Uh oh - I can see the Rachmaninov/Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev/Prokofieff battle rearing its head soon Not least since the BBC now insists on Rakhmaninov (or is it Rakhmaninoff?).  |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #28 on: 20:10:04, 13-08-2007 » |
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now, i never use capital letters (if i can help it), which leaves a lot of people in spasms of pedantic anger.
why punctuation is far from perfect, also.
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sososo s & i.
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John W
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« Reply #29 on: 20:12:38, 13-08-2007 » |
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Uh oh Shouldn't that be oh-oh? (sung like me-doh) What's Tchaikovsky these days? (Haven't bought one of his CDs for a while) |
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