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richard barrett
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« Reply #735 on: 12:36:28, 30-03-2007 »
Quote from: Peter Grimes on 12:20:14, 30-03-2007
Can anybody name a great Australian composer? I don't think so.

Well, it depends on what you might be thinking of as "great", but, among 20th and 21st century composers, there's really quite a fair number of internationally-performed and respected names (and/or people who write fine music, which aren't always the same ones of course), among whom one might mention Don Banks, Gerard Brophy, Warren Burt, Nigel Butterley, Tristram Cary, Barry Conyngham, Edward Cowie, Brett Dean, Chris Dench, Ross Edwards, Mary Finsterer, Andrew Ford, Riccardo Formosa, Jennifer Fowler, Percy Grainger, Richard Hames, Keith Humble, Dominik Karski, Elena Kats-Chernin, Liza Lim, David Lumsdaine, Chris Mann, Thomas Meadowcroft, Richard Meale, Damien Ricketson, Jon Rose, Peter Sculthorpe, Ian Shanahan, Matthew Shlomowitz, Roger Smalley, Michael Smetanin, Carl Vine, Malcolm Williamson, Adam Yee and David Young, to name only those whose music I've actually heard.
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« Reply #736 on: 12:39:28, 30-03-2007 »
And another thing - don't you hate people who make "quotation marks" with their fingers when they are talking to you?
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« Reply #737 on: 12:42:14, 30-03-2007 »
the quotation marks thing (in my experience) belongs with the bullshit-bingo set (This thread, P.33, Reply #488)
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« Reply #738 on: 12:43:03, 30-03-2007 »
Richard

Thanks for that - I never knew Chris Dench was Australian.
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« Reply #739 on: 12:44:07, 30-03-2007 »
Percy Grainger I suppose.
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richard barrett
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« Reply #740 on: 12:45:00, 30-03-2007 »
Quote from: Peter Grimes on 12:20:14, 30-03-2007
Please don't get me started on "upspeaking"
I've never come across that word, but it does look remarkably ugly. What does it mean? (sorry to get you started - someone else can answer if they wish).

Quote from: Peter Grimes on 12:39:28, 30-03-2007
And another thing - don't you hate people who make "quotation marks" with their fingers when they are talking to you?
Yes indeed. And that hand thing that people do to indicate their intention to phone you in the near future.

Chris Dench is a naturalised Australian citizen (as are a few others on the list) although he was born in the UK.

What annoys me a bit is MB contributors storming off in a huff after one too many acrimonious arguments. Surely the answer to such situations is to take up the issue offboard, which we are lucky enough to be able to do here.

Which isn't to say that there aren't many things which annoy me a LOT, but I'm not in the mood for that kind of thing today. Despite the weather. And having been on the road for most of the past three weeks. And the government (any government). And... well, you get my drift.
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« Reply #741 on: 12:49:39, 30-03-2007 »
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Equally annoying is the habit of saying "kind of" at least twice in every sentence.`

And, like, the way people, like, say `An` I`m going, like, you`re totally mad` and she`s going,  `Like, that is SO not true`. Oh, just remembered another one. If you offer someone a cup of tea/assistance and they reply, `No, you`re all right`. Huh? Who the hell came up with that one? What`s wrong with `No thank you. I do not require a cup of tea or assistance at this time, but thank you for offering`. Or even `No ta, mate`.

Seethe, mutter, moan.
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« Reply #742 on: 12:51:30, 30-03-2007 »
Just don't get me started on 'innit'

I think that is the most common word down 'ere !!!!

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« Reply #743 on: 12:52:50, 30-03-2007 »
Also 'de ye know whad I mean?' ever other sentence. And Ali G-inspired reduction of the verb 'to be' to a singular participle ('is').
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« Reply #744 on: 12:57:20, 30-03-2007 »
 Sad       Embarrassed      Daughter told me at the beginning of the week, I am to stop punctuating sentences with "erm..."  Sad      Embarrassed
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« Reply #745 on: 12:58:46, 30-03-2007 »
`I think that is the most common word down 'ere !!!!`

In more ways than one, daarling. Even the boy that stones the olives for my martini utters it.
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« Reply #746 on: 13:24:29, 30-03-2007 »
I presume "upspeaking" is that aggravating rise at the end of a sentence that makes it sound like a question?

I've been to two training sessions  recently where adult persons have caught this awful habit, and I have come away having learned nothing, as I have been so distracted by it.

(And my need to scream...)




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« Reply #747 on: 13:27:53, 30-03-2007 »
Quote from: richard barrett on 12:45:00, 30-03-2007
And that hand thing that people do to indicate their intention to phone you in the near future.

Not least because they NEVER do...
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« Reply #748 on: 13:35:37, 30-03-2007 »
Morticia, I'll have that cuppa thanks, 'if you can spare it'. Angry
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« Reply #749 on: 14:37:28, 30-03-2007 »
'No problem.'
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