Klarinet Archive - Posting 000038.txt from 2006/01

From: "danyel" <rab@-----.de>
Subj: Re: [kl] Gran Partitttta (K. 361)
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 18:21:05 -0500

Yes, exactly. German might not be a very important language (outside the
clarinet world at least), but it sure is a confusing one. This phenomenon is
called inflection and it is so powerful that it decides about the meaning of
words. In fact you can drop the final e of the plural (as in archaic and
provincial German, especially in Austrian such as Mozart spoke! He would
say: 'Hobois lauten als die Gaens' ((oboes sounds like geese)), while
regular German would be: 'Oboen klingen wie Gaense' -- note that 'Oboen',
pl. of 'Oboe' is no umlaut) and you'll still know it's plural, while if you
drop the umlaut it doesn't make any sense. Hence I think the common practice
of many authors outside the German speaking region of merely abolishing the
umlaut trema (äöü) is problematic. ae ue oe, as in Latin, are feasible and
should be used if one doesn't have the required characters. Hence: Iwan
Mueller, Richard Muehlfeld, Arnold Schoenberg, Oskar Oehler, Theobald Boehm,
J.W. Goethe (he sometimes spelled his own name Göte), Joseph Goebbels are
correct (the spelling, I mean).

Best wishes,
danyel

----- Original Message -----

> On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 21:39:46 +0100, "danyel" <rab@-----.de> wrote:
>
> >Actually, the plural of Eingang (a as in gutter) is Eingänge (also
spelled
> >Eingaenge, pronounced ayn-gang-eh with a as in ghetto)
> >
>
> I admit to more than a little confusion, because as near as I can tell,
> there is no "a" in either "gutter" or "ghetto". Are you saying that, in
> the singular word, the "a" is pronounced like the "u" in "gutter", and
> in the plural it is like the "e" in "ghetto"?
>
> --
> Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
>

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