Klarinet Archive - Posting 000324.txt from 1996/12

From: Fred Jacobowitz <fredj@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Excuse my Bullshit : was Opus Discussion
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 11:56:30 -0500

Jorge,
Yes, I have. In addition, it is the correct and most accurate word, and
as
such is used in scholarly research papers with surprising frequency. In the US
very few people except doctors (who must be scrupulousy accurate in their
diagnoses) use the word "aspirate" instead of the more common
"Barf", throw up", "hurl", etc. This is no reason to abandon the word.
And one more thing: there is never a reason in polite discourse to use
epithets. To do so only shows the user of them to be unliterate,
immature, incapable of proper use of the language, and lacking in
manners.

Fred Jacobowitz
Clarinet/Sax Instructor, Peabody Preparatory

On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Joerg Peltzer wrote:

> Sorry for my comment.
> But it was a nice reaction
> I never wanted to harm someone.
> But I still think that there is no "real use" of the Plural of Opus (i know
> its opera), but anyone really ever came across that Expression in a Concert
> Program?
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> Joerg Peltzer Tel. (0451) 70 20 830 - Luebeck, Germany
> "Funk is, what you don't play" - Maceo Parker!
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