Klarinet Archive - Posting 000543.txt from 2000/10

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] About these cleaning cloths
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 17:47:14 -0400

At 06:07 AM 10/10/2000 -0700, Neil Leupold wrote:
>I wrote:
>
>>> The original post pertained to swabs, not polishing cloths, although the
>>> subject line is indeed a little ambiguous.
>
>Bill Hausmann wrote:
>
>> The original post referred to "cleaning cloths" and the body of the post
>> still left it ambiguous.
>
>"Referred" vs "pertained" -- 'see the mile-wide semantic difference?
>The former is literal, the latter interpretive. The post did indeed
>refer to cleaning cloths, but its meaning pertained to swabs. And
>clearly "swab" is not a universal word among "us", otherwise the confusion
>would never have arisen in the first place. With such broad cultural,
>linquistic, age-based, and experience-based representation on this list,
>it is inappropriate to assume that any given individual shares any other's
>conceptual understanding, unless prior exchanges have made it evident.
>
Yes, the post LITERALLY said "cleaning cloths." The interpretation YOU
made was "swab," but I did not see sufficient information in the post to
draw that conclusion, although it was clearly one possible option. My
presumption that the term "swab" is universal is based upon 30+ years of
playing, 6 years in the band instrument retail business and several years
on this multi-national, cross-cultural list without ever hearing it
referred to as anything ELSE before this. Please forgive me for jumping to
conclusions.

Bill Hausmann bhausmann1@-----.com
451 Old Orchard Drive http://homepages.go.com/~zoot14/zoot14.html
Essexville, MI 48732 ICQ UIN 4862265

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.

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