Klarinet Archive - Posting 000417.txt from 2002/09

From: Richard Bush <rbushidioglot@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: "tooting your own horn"
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 16:03:04 -0400

Damn, my spell checker missed it! The
word
is,"hyperpolysyllabicsesquipedalianist."

Richard Bush wrote:

> Tim,
>
> Rejoice. I think you might be the first ever
> hperpolysyllabicsesquipedalianist I've run across.
>
> Tim Roberts wrote:
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>> On Thu, 19 Sep 2002 16:58:34 -0700, Bear Woodson <bearwoodson@-----.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> OK, if "tooting your own horn" bothers you,
>>> (which makes me very uncomfortable, feeling
>>> compelled to speak for myself), then whom
>>> would you suggest? There must be hundreds of
>>> people on the Klarinet List.
>>>
>>
>> More than a thousand, the last time Mark posted the statistics.
>>
>>
>>> .... None of all those
>>> musicians caught the fact on their own, that the
>>> 4th Movement is the ONLY time in all known
>>> Music History, (according to a growing list of
>>> Counterpoint Professors), that a Melody is Har-
>>> monized by it's own Retrograde-Inversion a
>>> Major 7th lower in Chromatic Modal (Non-12-
>>> Tone) Harmony!
>>>
>>
>> And this paragraph does not strike you as "tooting your own horn"?
>> Complimentary or not, the term is accurate.
>>
>>
>>> If my works are so mediocre, then ...
>>>
>>
>> I haven't heard a single person on this list claim that your works are
>> mediocre. In fact, I haven't heard anyone disparage your compositions
>> at all. All the negative comments I've seen are entirely aimed at the
>> verbose, pompous, jargonistic, and sesquipedalian nature of your posts.
>>
>> There's nothing particularly wrong with "tooting your own horn". We
>> should all be our own biggest fans. However, after doing so, you
>> should be neither surprised nor offended when someone identifies it as
>> such.
>>
>>
>> --
>> - Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
>> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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