"Roth Hande"? Caught "red-handed"? Is that one of Satie's funky performance directions?
Aaron J. Rabushka [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.waymark.net/arabushk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Guy Hayden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 11:51 AM Subject: RE: [Finale] left hand, right hand abbreviation > My German is rather limited and my dictionary is in my car. > > However, experience with speaking German in Germany does remind me that, > even though I did not spell the words correctly, I would have been > understood. From a standpoint of the original post, the difference between > the English abbreviation (l.h./r.h.) and the German is a matter of > capitalization (l.H/r.H). > > I read messages for days about this issue without anyone mentioning the > French abbreviations. Perhaps I should have avoided the German entirely. > That, however, seemed less than helpful. In fact, when I was preparing the > message for a moment I had written "Roth Hande", then realized that is the > brand name for some German cigarettes. Of course, I may have spelled that > wrong, too. > > So why did I bother? I wanted to be helpful if I could. I did not expect > to create an embarrassing international linguistic debacle. As I recall, > none of the replies to the original message indicated that anyone actually > played the piano, which was the source of the issue from the beginning. > > Thank you for pointing out my errors. My remorse at being such an > ungracious conversant and miserable lout is immeasurable. > > Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. Oh, did I spell that wrong? I may > have. To err is human, etc.. > > Perhaps a personal note offering a correction would have been more > appropriate. > > Guy Hayden > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > David W. Fenton > Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 11:53 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [Finale] left hand, right hand abbreviation > > What's your point here? You were wrong, in a relatively minor way, > but wrong, nonetheless. > > Why would you not be grateful for a correction from a native German > speaker? I learned German a long time ago, but I recognize that I am > missing a lot of the details and am always grateful for corrections > from people like Johannes because I recognize that I can't possibly > have the same depth of understanding of the language that a native > speaker does. > > What truly amazes me is the idiomatic written English of folks like > Johannes -- if I didn't know that he was not a native English > speaker, I don't think I could detect it from his postings on the > list. That humbles me whenever I think I have something to say about > the German language -- I'm not even in the same universe as Johannes > when it comes to second-language proficiency. > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
