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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.
It doesn't bother me at all, funnily enough. What does not being able to help it involve, though (on the rare occasions ...)? |
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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 #31 on: 20:52:23, 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?).  I really think you all ought to club together to buy me a new anorak for this bit of information. The great schism within the BBC on this occurred as far back as 1990. In that year the Proms, under John Drummond, broke away from the old Rachmaninovites and reformed as Rakhmaninovians. The Proms have been 'Rakhmaninov' ever since then while for the old guard in the BBC and its Youth Wing, the Radio Times, it remains 'Rachmaninov'. Old friendships, loyalties and even family ties were sundered as everyone was required to declare for one or the other. It has also put an almost unendurable strain on anyone attempting to combine the jobs of Controller of Radio 3 and Director of the Proms. So far all those foolhardy enough to attempt it have gone mad in the process. |
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« Reply #32 on: 20:53:22, 13-08-2007 » |
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John Drumond Ahem. Why is the spelling of Chaikovsky with a T in front of the C (which is then lowercase) universal in English-speaking circles? |
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« Reply #33 on: 20:55:53, 13-08-2007 » |
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Watch it, Suden.
I'd corrected that within seconds!!! You must have been just outside the door waiting to pounce.
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« Reply #34 on: 20:56:47, 13-08-2007 » |
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Watch it, Suden.
I'd corrected that within seconds!!! You must have been just outside the door waiting waiting to pounce.
We beg leave to refer the Honourable Member to the title of this thread. |
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« Reply #35 on: 20:59:38, 13-08-2007 » |
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I'm sorry. You were absolutely on topic there. The nervous tension of posting on this thread is getting to me. I'm getting that funny feeling of being on the edge of passing out with anxiety that I get when sewing a button back on.
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« Reply #36 on: 21:09:05, 13-08-2007 » |
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BZZT Member Garnett's final sentence ends with a preposition. I'm getting that funny feeling of being on the edge of passing out with anxiety that I get when sewing a button back on.
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« Reply #37 on: 21:14:57, 13-08-2007 » |
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Slump. Thud.
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« Reply #38 on: 21:26:51, 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.
It doesn't bother me at all, funnily enough. What does not being able to help it involve, though (on the rare occasions ...)? filling in official forms, writing letters etc etc. my wife is the form filler of this family. |
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« Reply #39 on: 21:54:40, 13-08-2007 » |
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to not think so highly of "Oxford" SPLIT INFINITIVE ALERT!!!Split infinitives are fine and dandy. |
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« Reply #40 on: 21:55:31, 13-08-2007 » |
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This is not a thread. What is it, then, an elephant? |
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« Reply #41 on: 21:56:33, 13-08-2007 » |
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I ain't seen no double negatives here yet!
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« Reply #42 on: 21:59:12, 13-08-2007 » |
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John Drumond Ahem. Why is the spelling of Chaikovsky with a T in front of the C (which is then lowercase) universal in English-speaking circles? Well, the BL have decided it's with a C, which I eventually discovered after wondering why someone seemed to have all the open access books out on the aforementioned composer whenever I looked, and furthermore, there didn't seem to be any gap? |
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« Reply #43 on: 22:06:54, 13-08-2007 » |
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The Stadtbibliothek here in Köln have a very rigorous transliteration system. Shostakovich is ostakovič, (T)chaikovsky Čajkovskij...
This system is very consistent. It is, however, not always helpful.
Ian, if you're ever in Barcelona looking up Shostakovich, be prepared to look under X.
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« Reply #44 on: 22:11:24, 13-08-2007 » |
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So we should stick to spellings on our UK-issued CDs or Decca vinyl? |
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