Well, then change to "tenth" everywhere. I am a little surprised noone has asked what word that was, considering it has been in solfege the last 10 years. Please let me know if you find other strange things!
Tom Cato On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Allen McBride <[email protected]> wrote: > Happy new year to you too! I had never heard the term "decim" before > downloading Solfege. But I'm not a music major, so that didn't surprise me. > But my girlfriend, who was a music major, says she's never heard "decim" > either, and that she's always called it a "tenth". I figure, even if "decim" > is considered more correct in some obscure circles, you might as well call it > a "tenth", since that's certainly in common use. > > --Allen > > > On Jan 1, 2010, at 3:13 PM, Tom Cato Amundsen wrote: > >> Hello, and happy new year! >> A user emailed me and asked why all intervals except one was in >> english. He said "decim" is not english, and a quick google suggests >> that he is right, and that only "tenth" is the proper english interval >> name. I don't know where I have the term "decim" from, except that the >> norwegian interval name is "desim". >> >> I see that I from Solfege 0.5.2 (January 2000) have called the >> interval "decim", so I'd like to hear your opinion before changing it >> and adding work for the translators. >> >> -- >> Tom Cato Amundsen <[email protected]> http://www.solfege.org/ >> GNU Solfege - free ear training http://www.gnu.org/software/solfege/ >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community >> Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support >> A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy >> Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev >> _______________________________________________ >> Solfege-devel mailing list >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] >> with a subject of "unsubscribe", or visit >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/solfege-devel > > -- Tom Cato Amundsen <[email protected]> http://www.solfege.org/ GNU Solfege - free ear training http://www.gnu.org/software/solfege/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Solfege-devel mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe", or visit https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/solfege-devel
