On Mar 26, 2011, at 10:16 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
> ("between you and me" as "between you and I").
Object form in place of subject.
>
> The American tendency to overcorrect especially applies to foreign placenames,
> perhaps out of a sense of respect, political correctness, or fear of
If the audio has been recorded to a click. It will play back in time with the
notation in Finale.
I record the audio in Digital Performer (any DAW would work) save it as a
midifile open the midifile in Finale and import the audio. (The midifile
contains the tempo information necessary to keep
On Sat, March 26, 2011 9:20 pm, David H. Bailey wrote:
> Why is it that people get upset when Americans pronounce foreign names
> and words with Americanized pronunciations, yet I never read or hear of
> people getting upset at others, say the French, for pronouncing American
> names and words with
On 3/26/2011 7:26 PM, Aaron Rabushka wrote:
Not to mention what out-state Missourians do to French names: Versailles
=> verSAYLZ, St. François=> Saint Francis, Beaufort=> Buford for
starters. AAARGH!
Why is it that people get upset when Americans pronounce foreign names
and words with America
Not to mention what out-state Missourians do to French names: Versailles =>
verSAYLZ, St. François=> Saint Francis, Beaufort=> Buford for starters.
AAARGH!
Aaron J. Rabushka
arabus...@austin.rr.com
- Original Message -
From: "Dennis Bathory-Kitsz"
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Hello!
A new plug-in is now available for download, called "JW Conceal Barlines":
The plug-in hides the barlines in the selected region, to give the
impression that the barlines never existed (no artificial "holes" where
the barlines were). Useful for measure-less music (such as cadenzas),
fo
On Mar 26, 2011, at 2:27 PM, Chuck Israels wrote:
> "He took a picture of my brother and I" so often that I am forced to accept
> that it has become common usage, and I can't wrap my brain around that.
> Makes me want to scream the correction at the offending parties.
But not understanding
Thing is, to me, this stuff is fun. And the regionalisms are indications that
"franchization, franchisization, malling" (new words?) have yet to homogenize
everything. Still, I am deeply irritated by certain usages I deem
bone-headedly wrong that are becoming right by default. I can tolerate
It's not "Belgian Ahn-deev", it's "BelgiuM ENdive" - Dan Quayle said it that
way, so it must be so. (VP debate, 1988)
Oh, and as one who has possibly been to more of them than anyone else on the
list, it is definitely ROdeo. (When I was a kid I liked to attend them, for
some reason, and as a yo
On Sat, March 26, 2011 1:25 pm, Chuck Israels wrote:
> Yeah, but I have learned to refrain from correcting the checkout clerks at the
> grocery store when they call the stuff I buy En-dive, when I know perfectly
> well, it's Ahn-deev.
Ha! Where I came from in New Jersey it was EN-dive -- and my gr
using FINMAC 2010
I have a Roland VP-550 ---voice synthesizer keyboard. When you sing
into a mic connected to it, it sings back--in real time-- as a choir,
words and all. I want to use it to record the choral parts of choral
arrangements I have written, in some cases with just piano, other
Yeah, but I have learned to refrain from correcting the checkout clerks at the
grocery store when they call the stuff I buy En-dive, when I know perfectly
well, it's Ahn-deev. So I have just memorized the numerical code and no longer
have to tell them, "No, it's not baby bok choy, it's Ahn-deev
At 11:54 PM -0500 3/25/11, Aaron Rabushka wrote:
...but it is sometimes neVAYduh, MO (with either mizzuREE or
mizzurUH trailing along)
Aaron J. Rabushka
arabus...@austin.rr.com
Yes, distinctive regional pronunciations will always be with us.
They always seem like distortions to outsiders (whi
On 3/25/2011 10:16 PM, MSO wrote:
I would have to agree with Dalvin re: the pronunciation of "RO-dee-oh."
There's nothing ignorant about it. Y'ever been out west? Regional
pronunciation does not connote ignorance; after all: the word has been
virtually re-defined as a uniquely Western US event o
On 3/25/2011 5:37 PM, gplw...@letterboxes.org wrote:
Adding, hu geeb uh fahk?
Expletives deleted, isn't it time we moved beyond the egotistical false
pride of insisting that expressions be in Italian? Or that dynamics be
in abbreviated Italian with extended greater than or less than signs?
This
On 3/25/2011 6:45 PM, Christopher Smith wrote:
On Fri Mar 25, at FridayMar 25 5:37 PM, gplw...@letterboxes.org
wrote:
isn't it time we moved beyond the egotistical false pride of
insisting that expressions be in Italian? Or that dynamics be in
abbreviated Italian with extended greater than or
On 3/25/2011 6:06 PM, Lawrence Yates wrote:
Yes it's about communication - we could all use our own languages and that
would communicate well to those who speak our language but what about those
who don't speak our language?
Maybe we could invent a new language that we could all learn so that we
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