Klarinet Archive - Posting 000092.txt from 1997/04

From: Brian Ackerman <ackerman@-----.UK>
Subj: Re: Vernacular
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 17:55:13 -0500

I agree with you. I am afraid that I am one person who does wince every
time I see the word "horn".

Brian Ackerman
UK

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> From: Chuck and Dorothy Bishop
>
>
> 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