Klarinet Archive - Posting 000065.txt from 1997/04

From: Chuck and Dorothy Bishop <bishop@-----.NET>
Subj: Vernacular
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 21:19:23 -0500

I am amused by the piece/song discussion It is another popular
corruption of the American language. My teacher would also have
fainted if he had heard a clarinet called a "horn". Horns belong on the
right side of a concert band. A clarinet is a clarinet - a woodwind
instrument. Understanding each other comes from using words with
presice meanings. Of course it's fun to have secret meanings as in
Ebonics but pity the non-English speaking immigrants. Of course
American English is a "living language" and the policy of the
professors is to accept established vulgarisms. But, confound it, a
piece is a piece, a song is a song, a horn is a horn and clarinet is a
clarinet.
Chuck

   
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