It has been great being on the list, hopefully I have learned a lot. Within
the next few days, I will be unsubscribing and I will be leaving the list. I
am starting my own business and not be having time to do much else.
Good lacing to all.
Andrea Sommers
Where it is starting to get cooler in
I am doing a slide show about lace for lacmakers, some of whom may collect,
but most of whom are lacemakers. I am planning to mention in passing that a
piece is Gros Point, or Point de Angleterre or Rose point or Point de Neige. In
one case, I am actually saying Rose Point (rather than Point
From: Patricia Ann Fisher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
a bobbin lace project that was a mix of Beds, Cluny and Torchon. He called
it Bastard Lace!
A kinder term, if someone has trouble with this one, is Hybrid Lace.
Robin P.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
http://www.pittsburghlace.8m.com/
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To
Does one approach this issue as though everyone in the audience is
sophisticated enough to know the pronunciation rules of every language
or does one
pronounce things the way they would be pronounced in the language that
you are
speaking in?
Hi Devon:
My 2 cents:
This problem makes you tread
Hello Devon,
How should I pronounce it for the slide show.
If I say Point, do I sound like a boob? If I say Pwont will the
audience be so
busy puzzling out what I am saying that they will miss the rest of the
commentary? Will some people think me elitist?
I don't think so. The laces have their
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Since I mostly read lace names and rarely discuss them, I tend to say
Point as we say it in English. I realize that it is pronounced Pwont
in French. How should I pronounce it for the slide show.
Devon,
I definitely see the problem. Here's the way I do it: If I'm
Dear Devon I love your quandary. Shrug off all the nailbiters and the
obsessives, and all the experts too (!) and listen to Aurelia who has
actually stood up on museum stages and spoken as follows:
Rose Point: Rohz Poynt
Point d'Angleterre: Poynt dahng-let-terr (yes, Poynt, that's
On Sep 3, 2004, at 19:44, Janice Blair wrote (re Liz in Melbourne's
message):
I put the NL into Beds lace - and it works well. It is enjoyable to
work a piece with both my lace-loves together!
Sounds interesting, do you have any examples on the web, if not maybe
you can post them to the web
Dear Secret Pal,
thank you for your email. I hopw you have a lovely trip! Your itinary
sounds really nice. I haven't been to Ulura, yet, I've only lived in
Australia for 35 years..:-)
I'm looking forward to meeting you at the Conference, but you will have to
find me, since I don't know who you
Haven't had a nice laweyer-bash in a while g This one's really good...
From: R.P.
One afternoon a wealthy lawyer in a limousine saw two men along the
roadside
eating grass. Disturbed, he ordered his driver to stop and he got out to
investigate. He asked one man Why are you eating grass?
We don't
From: R.P.
A nun is sitting with her Mother Superior chatting. I used some
horrible
language this week and feel absolutely terrible about it.
When did you use this awful language?
Well, I was golfing and hit an incredible drive that looked like it was
going to go at least 280 yards, but it
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