Klarinet Archive - Posting 001295.txt from 1998/07

From: "Kevin Fay (LCA)" <kevinfay@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Swearing
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 16:17:34 -0400

I spent a couple of summers in a Marine Corp ROTC program, where swearing
was discouraged . . . by us, of course.

My brother spent 3 years as a drill instructor at Fort Knox. When he
visited us, it was truly amazing how many inanimate objects were copulating,
all the time. It became truly comical to picture in your mind what it would
look like if in fact such activity was taking place (for example, at dinner,
his request to "please pass the f***ing salt").

I suppose that's where those little individual packets you get at McDonald's
come from.

Racy lyrics are nothing new. In opera, it's not such a big deal because (a)
for most singers, who can tell what the words are anyway and (b) even if you
could, they are likely in a different language. Someone posted to the list
a while back the origins of the works "jazz," "boogie-woogie," "jelly-roll"
etc.; rap is truly nothing new.

kjf

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Charette [mailto:charette@-----.org]
Subject: Re: [kl] Classical Music and Young People

From: Craig Earl Countryman <cegc@-----.net>

>The thing that really bothers me about that word is that it is SO
unneccesary to
>use. For instance, whenever they portray military guys on a sub or flying
>planes they have them cussing up a storm. That isn't like it is in real
life.
>It really upsets my dad to see that because he was in the military and
knows
>that is not true to life. So by using words, specifically "that" word,
they
>become more acceptable in everyday society and that is something we must
>prevent. Of course, that gets into questions that really aren't germane to
the
>clarinet or even music so I will end my comments on them at this point.

Well, Craig, your dad must have been in a different branch of the service
than I. I was in the blackshoe US Navy for 9 years, and yes, I and everyone
around me "cussed up a storm", using every word imaginable and a few
unimagined in every sentence. I remember watching "The Last Detail" with
Jack Nicholson and being surprised at how accurate the portrayal of a sailor
was in the story (actions and language) ...
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Mark Charette@-----.org
Webmaster, http://www.sneezy.org/clarinet
All-around good guy and devil-may-care flying fool.
"There can be no freedom without discipline." - Nadia Boulanger

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