On Sat, 25 Jul 2015 12:07:19 +0200
David Kastrup <[email protected]> wrote:

> Wols Lists <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > On 25/07/15 08:04, David Kastrup wrote:
> >> If we wanted to support "natural English note entry", it
> >> would become LilyPond's problem.
> >
> > As an irrelevant aside :-)
> >
> > Throwing another little spanner in the works - about what
> > words mean ...
> >
> > I really hate it when people say "English", and mean
> > "American" ...
> >
> > (yes, we use the same names for pitch, but we do not use the
> > same names for length ...)
> 
> Because UK went metric and the US loves the royals so much they
> stuck with Imperial?
> 
> At any rate, Americans tend to write C4 instead of c' so I am
> not sure why you are objecting against my characterization.
> 

Along with France, the U. S. was the first country to officially
adopt the metric system. We each have meter bars. Unfortunately,
the implementation has been delayed. How could anything like that
happen? Kindest regards, Rale- 

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