Klarinet Archive - Posting 000283.txt from 2000/10

From: David Glenn <notestaff@-----.de>
Subj: Re: [kl] immer
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 06:56:10 -0400

Bill Hausmann wrote:

> At 01:03 AM 10/6/2000 +0200, David Glenn wrote:
> >Rien Stein wrote:
> >
> >> At first I did not want to intermingle with the discussion on "Immer
> kleiner", but I was amazed to see it is officially translated into "always
> smaller", an expression that, if my knowledge of the English language is
> good enough, has a meaning quit different from "ever smaller". Of course
> "Immer kleiner"means "smaller and smaller", so it should be "ever smaller"
> I think
> >>
> >> Rien
> >
> >+++++++++++++++++++
> >
> >It would depend on the context. I think both could be right.
> >
> >David
> >
> Of course, in the context we are discussing, where the clarinet grows
> smaller and smaller as we watch/listen, "ever smaller" which means
> essentially the same as "smaller and smaller" is more correct than "always
> smaller" which implies that it is smaller right from the start and suggests
> nothing about any subsequent decrease in size.
>
> I really need to get out more! :-)
>
> Bill Hausmann bhausmann1@-----.com
> 451 Old Orchard Drive http://homepages.go.com/~zoot14/zoot14.html
> Essexville, MI 48732 ICQ UIN 4862265

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Oops, I just ignored the original context. Sorry. I must've chucked it out
without reading it...

David

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