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« Reply #4470 on: 22:10:44, 22-05-2008 » |
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Honestly! You don't expect a deputy head to give a bum speech! |
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« Reply #4471 on: 22:36:54, 22-05-2008 » |
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Gosh! What goes on at your meetings MJ? |
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« Reply #4472 on: 22:50:07, 22-05-2008 » |
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Nice slip of the tongue there MJ!!!!  |
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« Reply #4473 on: 23:36:18, 22-05-2008 » |
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Speaking of, er, tongue slips... apparently Klaus Thunemann (a reasonably famous German bassoonist) was giving a masterclass. A student was depressing her A flat key when she shouldn't have and that was spoiling intonation or tone-colour or something. The German for A flat is of course As. So one should only have expected him to point out, as indeed he did, that the reason it wasn't working was because "your As-hole is open".
Nonetheless I'm told a certain amount of hilarity ensued.
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« Reply #4474 on: 02:12:12, 23-05-2008 » |
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At least he kept off posteriority . . . |
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« Reply #4475 on: 07:20:41, 23-05-2008 » |
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« Reply #4476 on: 10:04:49, 23-05-2008 » |
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Ad libitim, autosharp!! Self-transposing? |
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« Reply #4477 on: 12:29:57, 23-05-2008 » |
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Ad libitim, autosharp!! Self-transposing? Self-raising? |
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« Reply #4478 on: 07:54:45, 24-05-2008 » |
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Well you know me and my typos!!
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« Reply #4479 on: 09:55:22, 24-05-2008 » |
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Yes, we do, bbm, but the question needs to be asked whether you ever bother to preview your posts before sending them out. If you paid that little attention to the arrangements you do, then there'd be such a welter of fudged accidentals in the transposed parts that they would sound ridiculous, so I'm guessing that you're more careful with those. Do your readers here deserve any less courtesy?
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« Reply #4480 on: 10:01:30, 24-05-2008 » |
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Ron, I'm ROFL at the Classical Eurovision thread in TOP! Poor Carmen....will she ever be heard from again? |
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« Reply #4481 on: 10:09:28, 24-05-2008 » |
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Ron, I'm ROFL at the Classical Eurovision thread in TOP! Poor Carmen....will she ever be heard from again? Me too, Milly . Ron, I think you're being a bit of a spoilsport. Think of the contribution to the Glossary thread. |
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« Reply #4482 on: 11:14:35, 24-05-2008 » |
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Mary, I'm sure the odd bbmism will still slip out, but we seem to have reached the point where virtually everything he spouts goes straight into the Glossary.... (We have very regular posters here for whom English isn't even their native tongue (an obvious example being Pim) who manage far better.)
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« Reply #4483 on: 11:18:56, 24-05-2008 » |
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You do have to take into account that some people may be dyslexic or have other less serious difficulties.
Education isn't what it was either. I used to regularly see my step-grandson's English homework go uncorrected and tried in vain to teach him not to say would of, could of etc. He just couldn't get it and the school made no attempt to improve the situation. Sadly, standards have fallen and it isn't always the fault of the pupil.
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« Reply #4484 on: 11:20:11, 24-05-2008 » |
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