Klarinet Archive - Posting 000423.txt from 2004/04

From: Georg.Kuehner@-----.de (Georg K=?ISO-8859-1?B?/A==?=hner)
Subj: Re: [kl] correct spelling
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 08:05:28 -0400

There is a good advice I once heard:

"If You want to loose a good friend talk about his intonation qualities"

Best Georg :-))

Am 27.04.2004 13:49 Uhr schrieb "Lelia Loban" unter
<lelialoban@-----.net>:

> Rien Stein wrote,
>> Sorry, I do not want to be pedantic, but as
>> of late I have seen so many misspellings of the
>> word I decided to give the correct spelling: the
>> word is "EMBOUCHURE". It has been derived
>> from the French word "Bouche", mouth, and
>> litterally means both mouthpiece and the way
>> of blowing your instrument.
>
> Andy Raibeck wrote,
>>> It's a good thing that you do not want to be pedantic.
>>> Otherwise I would have to point out that "literally"
>>> has only one 'T'.
>>>
>>> But since you are not being pedantic, I won't
>>> mention it... ;-)
>
> LOL! I don't dare mention anybody else's spelling or grammar any more,
> because every time I do, my own message includes at least one Freudian slip
> into elementary error. Somewhere in the depths of the archives is an old
> thread on this same subject, including a message from me in which I
> catalogued all of the variant spellings I'd seen of "embouchure," with
>
> --------
>
> Enough from Lelia. Nobody cares what my stupid pet human says anyway, so
> I'm making her type this for me. She thinks she's fallen asleep at the
> computer, while I control her spongy wet brain.
>
> <Sigh.> Such ignorance. "Litterally" is the correct spelling. It means
> that the mousepiece is litteral, in the sense that it belongs in the kitty
> litter box. "Litterally" refers to the fact that the screech-stick sounds
> like something dark and similarly shaped, dredged from the bottom of the
> litter box where a discriminating feline thoughtfully and carefully buried
> it. Do turn the mousepiece over to your nice cat so that he or she can rid
> you of the vermin. We perform this service free of charge, with hunting,
> chasing, batting the mousepiece down stairs and discreet burial in the
> litter box included.
>
> Sssssssst,
> Shadow Cat
>
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>
> Lelia Loban
> E-mail: lelialoban@-----.net
> Web site (original music scores as audio or print-out):
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