Klarinet Archive - Posting 000145.txt from 2003/08

From: "Christianson-Wood, Jan (JUS)" <Jchristian@-----.ca>
Subj: RE: [kl] Lacunae
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 11:50:09 -0400

There is one other usage that I learned recently--the gaps in a person's
resume or life history. These lacunae suggest that the person has something
in their work or personal history that they do not wish to make known.

Mom

> -----Original Message-----
> From: CLARK FOBES [SMTP:reedman@-----.com]
> Sent: 2003-Aug-07 10:45 AM
> To: klarinet
> Subject: [kl] Lacunae
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> Where else can one use such a delicious word? Lacunae is plural for lacuna
> which means "an empty space or gap". Benade uses this word in several of
> his writings on woodwind bores. I did, however,avoid another favorite two
> word phrase , "bore perturbation" (any change in the diameter of the
> bore).
>
> Ah, the world of clarinet acoustics is rife with arcane poetry.
>
>
> CLARK FOBES
> reedman@-----.com
> Why Wait? Move to EarthLink.
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