> I find these remarks particularly repulsive and unfortunate for you to > post them to the lute-list. Michael Stitt is not on this list at > present to be able to defend himself. MS never needed any defense, because he was deaf to the voice of reason.
> He gave good reason before he left, why his Bach-Plucked site was being > removed. It was becoming the target of too much spam and offensive > remarks. Look back in your mail-archives again. His site was the offensive reason for all the reasonable requests to remove dangerous misinformation from it. > What does a change of religion have to do with anything? Are you > particularly offended by Moslems? To be honest with you: YES. Since the proscription of music by the Prophet himself, may his progeny all have huge feet. > This could be construed as a racial > remark. Really????? I've never heard of Islam as a racial characteristic. This is news to me.................. I am under impression that a goodly number of Moslems are caucasoid, much like you or I. > Moving to the Gulf (Bahrain) was solely a career-move for him. You must > know from his previous postings what profession he is in. I believe the Indian prospects are much greater for programmers. But I don't question his motives. As I said before: he is better of in a structured environment. > You should also be grateful that Mr Thames is not your neighbor in New > York, without suggesting that your fellow American be alienated to the > Middle East. I think Thames is already sufficiently alienated in the South West. As to Middle East: it takes very little to alienate it. All one has to do is go out in the morning. I suppose an old Islamic concept of "God's Grace manifests itself in monetary/wordly success" has proven untrue, so Islam has taken to (as we say in Russian) "defecating in the rich neighbor's raspberry bushes"..... > Then you end with a libellous comment about Mr Stitt's sanity. I have > been fortunate to meet him and found him to be a very pleasant > gentleman. Would it ever be possible to say the same about you one day? I doubt it. > If these were just opinions, please keep them to yourself. They are a bit more than that, so bear with me. RT > > > Michael, how about adopting another list? > > Alain > In fact, Michael Stitt's old list on Yahoo has been barely active, after > Michael's conversion to Islam and moving to the Gulf. I'd say Thames > would > really grace that horizon, as a fine counterpart to that nutcase. > RT > > > > > The meaning is clear, transcribe is to simply adopt a composition.. > > >Adoption does NOT imply in it's defanition, nor does it restrict one > > >from using the same charaters! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > > > > > >
