Klarinet Archive - Posting 000532.txt from 2003/08

From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Lacunae
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 13:11:37 -0400

I want you to know that this is nonsense, up with which I will not put.

Dan

Clark Fobes wrote:

> I am influenced by Arthur Hutchings's dislike of
> genteelisms, elegencies, archaisms and literalisms.
> Inverted snobbery? So we should have hippopotomuses,
> hiatuses, tuttis, rondos, sonatas, lacunas, emporiums,
> honorariums, concertos, but only exceptionally concerti grossi! :-O
> So it is generally a lapsus linguae.
> M for myrmidon.
>
> CLARK FOBES Thursday, August 07, 2003 4:44 PM
> Subject: [kl] Lacunae
>
>>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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