> > I have a comparable experience with my 6 year old son. One day > > somebody wanted him to play some lute pieces by Waissel. But he > > handed him an edition in French tablature!! At once my son threw himself > > to the floor, weeping and swearing, because he plays it only from > > German tablature. > > Only after translating some death penalties from Old Assyrian he > > could find his calmness again!
> Old Assyrian, eh? It sounds like your six-year-old and my nine-year-old > would hit it off very well, as she wrote her PhD thesis on the > influences of Old Assyrian epic poetry traditions on Attic-Ionic Greek > via Old Persian. Mates finally! Where will we meet? My eight-year-old loves to fluently chat in Babylonian. -- Best, Mathias http://de.geocities.com/mathiasroesel http://mathiasroesel.livejournal.com -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
