"may I offer some help in terminology?"
Nou, thenc iu, ai em raiting nau in da ist europian inglis.
(No, thank you, I am writing now in the est - European English)
P.S.If you were on the frequency...there were several jokes about
mike's mice's and other pets...all of them here on the forum).
Please keep my topic clean as I try to have a serious discussion about
this issue and not about English spelling and grammar...ok?)
Thank you and have a very (m)nice day.
--- On Mon, 4/9/12, William Brohinsky <[email protected]> wrote:
From: William Brohinsky <[email protected]>
Subject: [LUTE] All about micing...redux
To: "lute net" <[email protected]>
Date: Monday, April 9, 2012, 5:30 PM
Fellow luters,
may I offer some help in terminology?
First of all, micing does not exist in the language (on either side of
the Atlantic) in a context of microphones. I might have use in terms
of barn cats.
The actual term is, as was originally used, miking. However, there is
a price for using this form, at least for this old geezer, in that
every time I saw the subject line about miking lutes, I wondered,
"geez, can you really get milk out of one of them things?"
For our purposes, and for all that it costs a few extra letters and a
whole space, I highly recommend "using microphones" or if you aren't
capitalizing it, "using mikes." 'Miking' is a concatation (pace Stan
Kelly-Bootle) used in the industry by technicians who are sure they
have less time than they obviously have. Those who feel the aching
need to over-complicate their prose are invited to substitute
"utilize" for "use" with the promise that I, at least, will not feel
the loss at avoiding their posts.
yours with tongue in both cheeks at once,
William
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