On 4 July 2011 16:35, Ron Andrico <[email protected]> wrote:
>   David wrote:
>   > Ron's question, made relevant for the listers, freely translates to
..
>   Just a minute, buddy.  This kind of 'freely translated' interpretation
>   of someone else's words has led to such disasters as the search for
>   weapons of mass destruction in Iraq as a justification for attack, and

I had a fun weekend on the lute list, and thank you all kindly for it,
but don't remember bringing up world politics. Perhaps you are
referring to the fact that occasionally I bring archlutes of mass
distraction to Iran? It's a neighbouring country, full of friendly
people playing tar and setar, no justification for attacking them.

>   the abstraction of the term 'reverse engineering' to justify the
>   invention of a new instrument to play old music.

Perhaps you're mixing up Davids here. I do agree, there are too many of us.

David - the lefty

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