Klarinet Archive - Posting 000030.txt from 2006/02

From: "Rommel John (Rafi Jochanan) Miller" <rjmiller@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: new Mozart finds
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 23:10:41 -0500

I looked in both Webster's 9th Collegiate and Collins' 2nd Edition English
Dictionaries and both define "moron" in the derogatory sense, with no
mention of chestnuts; I haven't gone as far as the OED yet, but I am certain
either Webster or Collins' would've included a mention of a "nut" in the
etymology if there were in fact one to be had from the OED's definitive
definition.

Rafi
----- Original Message -----
From: "Laurence Beckhardt" <lbeckhardt@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 9:16 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] Re: new Mozart finds

> isn't a "moron" some kind of chestnut? and chestnuts
> are good
>
> --- Rien Stein <rstein@-----.nl> wrote:
>
> > Last Saturday I sent an e-mail to this list
> > expressing my doubts as to the
> > "discovery" Dan Leeson announced with respect to
> > Mozart properties.
> >
> > Monday night I watched a beautifully played
> > performance of the Gran
> > Partit(t)a. After that I opened my mail, and one of
> > the first things I read
> > was Dan's answer to my mail. Dan thought it
> > necessary to cal me a Moron. I
> > was so surprised and upset I took my dictionary to
> > check whether this word
> > meant what I thought it meant. It did. I immediately
> > sent a rather sharp
> > e-mail to this list. This mail came back as being
> > undeliverable (a problem I
> > often have with this list). It was already late at
> > night, and in a way I
> > felt relieved it wouldn't arrive.
> >
> > Tonight I read my mail since that moment, and
> > suddenly there was -- you
> > guess it already -- exactly this same mail in the
> > digest, followed by the
> > mail I sent Saturday night! I have my MSc in
> > computer science, but this is
> > one of those ununderstandable things: there is no
> > virus in my computer, nor
> > any other thing unhealthy (I checked that already),
> > yet this mail and a
> > previous one suddenly arrive somewhere they should
> > not arrive anymore.
> >
> > I am NOT going to offer Dan my apologies. I still
> > doubt the reality of his
> > discovery. Someone wrote me I was arrogant to doubt
> > Dan's announcement, as
> > he is one of the greatest experts on Mozart. That is
> > not what I discussed: I
> > cannot judge that, although I think he is an expert
> > on WAM. Rereading the
> > pagelong journal's article however, my doubts are
> > even strengthened. I will
> > not elaborate this, read the article critically
> > yourself. And I still am
> > offended by Dan's calling me a moron, I think HE
> > should apologise, he
> > started calling names! He won't, I am convinced.
> >
> > Have a good night.
> >
> > Rien
> >
> >
> >
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