Klarinet Archive - Posting 000540.txt from 2005/03

From: Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org>
Subj: RE: [kl] that nice dark sound
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 18:11:23 -0500

On 21 Mar, "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net> wrote:

> I'm sure you do. However, what you hear as a dark sound someone else can
> very well hear as a bright sound. So the dark sound that you are hearing is
> not constant from listener to listener. And that failure make[s] the term
> worse than useless.

No, it makes it less useful than something like a temperature reading on a
given scale, which has an objective correlate.

Suppose I were to say that you are a loud person. Some people might
disagree, relating your loudness to their normal context. "He's not loud,
you should hear...X!"

Other people, who spend their lives in monasteries, might agree.

Does this mean that the term 'loud' is worse than useless?

> The purpose of a word to describe a phenomenone should, in principle, be
> defined the same for everyone.

Nah.

Tony
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