On Wednesday, Sep 13, 2006, at 14:26 America/Los_Angeles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My first response is usually an awkward silence. > I'm not SURE if the person is joking and so I stand > there with a dumb smile on my face for a moment. Then > I think to myself "Oh God, should I correct him/her? > Is this person going to take it as an insult?" Then I > usually say something like, "Um... its a little later > than that, more of a late renaissance/early baroque > thing..." > > As you can tell, I've had this happen more than once. > Usually I'm taken aback because I'm dealing with folks > that I assume know a thing or two about music. (You > know what happens when you assume...) > > Anybody have any good comebacks for this type of > situation? If the conversation is worth pursuing, which it may not be, you might find out what your interlocutor means by "Middle Ages." It could signify nothing more than an indistinctly understood distant past. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
