Dear All,
I promised to identify the twenty musicians in a couple of days or
so, so here they are:
Ten modern:
Elviss Preslijs
Elvis Presley
Dzimijs Hendrikss [little v over z]
Jimi Hendrix
Pols Makartnijs
Paul McCartney
Mailss Deiviss
Miles Davis
Dzeinisa Dzoplina [little v over z each
On Friday 07 November 2003 04:32, Marcus Merrin wrote:
A one-time colleague of mine who held the degree of Doctorandus from
Leiden University used to delight in the fact that the University still
sent him letters using the salutation Weleidelgeleerdeheer which I
suppose translates as
Stew,
A quick review gives me most of them, but of course you have set some easy
ones by using the full names. I'll look tomorrow night when sober and having
more time.
I have been busy tonight finishing the lute, and that involves a bit of
indulgence in the sauce. So I'll just say grau mo
A one-time colleague of mine who held the degree of Doctorandus from
Leiden University used to delight in the fact that the University still
sent him letters using the salutation Weleidelgeleerdeheer which I
suppose translates as Well-and-truly learned Sir. Maybe he was just
pulling my
Calling a fellow student Sie or even Candidatus (if shortly before
the exams - you still get a letter from the university which gives you
the official title candidatus after you pass certain exams) would be
regarded as *very* old-fashioned now.
The elder ones still use the titles of the husband
Mathias, I was going to post this to the group, but I've posted too much
already. Thought you'd be interesed, though. Arthur.
Mathias wrotefirst time I've been called Mat. I like it, though :)
Titles are of some importance in Austria. There, it is a matter of
politeness to correctly _use_ them
Arthur Ness wrote:
Someone told me that the title, Frau Dr., was the way one addressed an
elderly woman who had accomplished much in life.
Frau Dr. is also used in Germany when the husband has the Dr. title. I
have even heard Frau Prof. Dr. when the husband is also ordentlicher
Professor. The
Gernot,
Rites are manners within a culture. And universal manners should involve
learning the rites of one's host and observing them (although I'm not sure
I'd go along with that if my host were a cannibal - there are limits).
My late father was a life long physicist at Bell Labs (and claims the
Mat,
Americans are traditionally informal with people they respect, there is no
personal or formal distinction in English anymore that equates to the German
Du or the French Tu. There was once, the Thee and Thou, but that went
by the boards years ago. Yet we have a convention (more breached than
Arthur is right.
See Kosack's dissertation page 54- and page 91.
Rainer adS
I don't disagree. I remember an inventory that had some items from JAFWeiss
as well as Reichardt, but obviously I mistook it for Kossack's.
RT
Arthur Ness (boston) wrote:
I have a copy of Kosack and will take a look.
on the receiving end should understand the
intent.
Best, Jon
- Original Message -
From: Ron Fletcher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 11:25 AM
Subject: FW: Why was the K'berg MS stolen? (Was Re: Koenigsberg Manuscript
The use of Mr
Continued.Dear McCoy,He's Stewart. Stewart McCoy!
This has never been doubted.
RT
==
Dear Roman,
I meant no disrespect. Mr.(?) Ms.(?) S.Walsh doesn't understand that using
a person's last name is a form of affectionate address over here.
Charlotte
Continued.Dear McCoy,He's Stewart. Stewart McCoy!
This has never been doubted.
RT
==
Dear Roman,
I meant no disrespect. Mr.(?) Ms.(?) S.Walsh doesn't understand that using
a person's last name is a form of affectionate address over here.
Charlotte
names, or
nicknames seem preferrable.
Best Wishes all
Ron (UK)
-Original Message-
From: Arthur Ness (boston) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 01 November 2003 10:48
To: Roman Turovsky
Cc: LUTE NET
Subject:Re: Why was the K'berg MS stolen? (Was Re: Koenigsberg Manuscript
Continued.
Dear McCoy,
As for the lute manuscript itslef, during the chaos of World War_II a team
of Lithuanian nationalists broke into the Prussian State Archives in
Koenigsberg. They wanted to repatriate a national treasure, an old
manuscript containing an ancient Lithuanian epic poem. In
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 15:35:43 -0500, Arthur Ness (boston)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Continued.
Dear McCoy,
He's Stewart. Stewart McCoy!
I'll continuie in the next message with an account of how the Koenigsberg
Manuscript really found its way to Vilnius. Sorry, McCoy. No KGB. No
CIA. No FBI. No Agent 007. Just a team of Lithuanian patriots. Sigitas
Silinskas's pals.
AJN
Actually KGB has a hand in this story, albeit
Dear Matanya,
I would very much like to know more about the other lute manuscript.
During this visit, he told Arthur
the same story he has been telling me, as well as Colin Cooper,
the editor
of Classical Guitar magazine, that the manuscript was taken from
Koenigsberg to Vilnius by the KGB,
For some reason, I am not getting mail from the list anymore, not even my
own postings. This was posted on the
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg01137.html
By Stewart McCoy.
Dear Matanya,
I would very much like to know more about the other lute manuscript.
So would I.
Tim Crawford wrote:
TOTAL NONSENSE, Matanya.
Reminds me of the comedian David Steinberg some decades ago, hailing the
inclusion of bullshit in a new Webster's dictionary. He said the
dictionary defined it as nonsense, prompting him to comment:
Webster's did it: found the one guy who doesn't
negligible, as
Arthur states.
snip
===AJN Responds
AJNTim Crawford made NO contributions of concordances for the
Koenigsberg Manuscript
Almost completely true.
AJNTIM CRAWFORD CONTRIBUTED NOT ONE CONCORDANCE WHATSOEVER.
AJNGar
At 01:00 PM 10/29/2003 +, Tim Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
MOpheeCareful. The concordances were _mainly_ compiled by Tim Crawford,
not by you.
TOTAL NONSENSE, Matanya. Please check your facts before making a stupid
assertion of this kind. My contribution was almost totally
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