Mrs. Krabappel: Embiggens? I never heard that word before moving to
Springfield.
Miss Hoover: I don't know why, it's a perfectly cromulent word.
At 08:06 PM 3/16/2006, guy_and_liz Smith wrote:
>`When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, `it means
>just what I choose it to
`When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, `it means
just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.'
Lewis Carroll
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From: "Sean Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 4:16 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: I saw my lady
It was a poor imagination that could think of but one way to spell a uuord.
Sean
guy_and_liz Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Oops. Didn't read it very carefully. I think the extra s's are just archaic
usages. English spelling wasn't very systematic back then.
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Arto Wikla wrote:
> Dear David,
>
> On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, LGS-Europe wrote:
>
>> ..joyful looks excells.
>> Tears kills the heart...
>>
>> What's with the s-es after the verbs? 'Looks' and 'tears' (noun, for sure in
>> the contaxt) are plural, so I would expect 'excell' and 'kill'.
>
> Just an un
.. sounds like gollum.
- bills-es
--- LGS-Europe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> third verse:
>
> ..joyful looks excells.
> Tears kills the heart...
>
> What's with the s-es after the verbs? 'Looks' and
> 'tears' (noun, for sure in
> the contaxt) are plural, so I would expect 'excell'
> and 'kill
Oops. Didn't read it very carefully. I think the extra s's are just archaic
usages. English spelling wasn't very systematic back then.
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From: "guy_and_liz Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "LGS-Europe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Arto Wikla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Lute net"
"Look" can also be used as a noun, as in "I gave him a dirty look." I think
that's how he's using it here. In that case, "looks" is just the plural of
"look".
Guy
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From: "Arto Wikla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "LGS-Europe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Lute net"
Sent: Thu
Dear David,
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, LGS-Europe wrote:
> ..joyful looks excells.
> Tears kills the heart...
>
> What's with the s-es after the verbs? 'Looks' and 'tears' (noun, for sure in
> the contaxt) are plural, so I would expect 'excell' and 'kill'.
Just an uneducated guess and speculation: s
Paul Beier has asked me to forward a note about an upcoming opportunity to
study lute in a magnificent setting:
>July 25-30 Lute course with Paul Beier at the Ancient Music at Monte San
>Savino Summer School. Monte San Savino is a medieval city in Tuscany near
>Arezzo (see www.comune.monte-san-s
The music I was originally talking about was "Carmen's Whistle" by John
Johnson, which I am playing on orpharion - wire strings which can easily be
pulled out of tune with less than precise left hand fingering.
Nancy
>On Mar 13, 2006, at 6:37 AM, Nancy Carlin wrote:
>
> > Possible
> > reasons fo
This is in his Regola Rubertina (1542). I'm sorry, Ed, I don't have it
in front of me for the details.
Sean
On Mar 16, 2006, at 3:14 AM, Ed Durbrow wrote:
>
> On Mar 13, 2006, at 6:23 AM, Sean Smith wrote:
>
>> Ganassi (c1530) give lots of
>> different different tunings for viols w/ different m
>
>> When some kind of meantone tuning was used this could explain the
>> use of
>> the 5th fret.
>
> Not for a fifth fret on the sixth course in meantone fretting. Same
> as open
> 5th course.
In fact, I can't think of a temperament where the same note would be
a different pitch.
I was ta
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Objet : [LUTE] Re: Tinctoris
> When some kind of meantone tuning was used this could explain the use of
> the
> 5th fret.
Not for a fifth fret on the sixth course in meantone
On Thursday 16 March 2006 12:19, Ed Durbrow wrote:
> On Mar 13, 2006, at 6:37 AM, Nancy Carlin wrote:
> > Possible
> > reasons for this are that it was written out as part of someone
> > lute lesson
> > on how to play these chords, or that there was something about the
> > intonation being better i
On Mar 13, 2006, at 6:37 AM, Nancy Carlin wrote:
> Possible
> reasons for this are that it was written out as part of someone
> lute lesson
> on how to play these chords, or that there was something about the
> intonation being better in these configurations. However, I can't
> imagine
> the
On Mar 13, 2006, at 6:23 AM, Sean Smith wrote:
> Ganassi (c1530) give lots of
> different different tunings for viols w/ different missing strings and
> we know that he was a lutenist, too.
How do we know that? Sounds interesting.
Ed Durbrow
Saitama, Japan
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