Klarinet Archive - Posting 000288.txt from 2009/10

From: "Heinemann, Stephen" <sjh@-----.edu>
Subj: [kl] Puzzle
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:06:59 -0400

On 10/28/09 4:01 PM, "Fred" wrote:

> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:33:11 -0400
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> From: Fred <vze2bsbs@-----.net>
> Subject: Re: [kl] Puzzle
> Message-id: <0KS800KWGOZCJG1V@-----.net>
>
> Anybody see the answer to this yet?
>
> Fred
>
> At 08:23 AM 10/21/2009, you wrote:
>> This morning's klarinet digest reminded me of a puzzle I wrote a couple of
>> years ago:
>>
>> Think of two 8-letter synonyms that share, in order, the same last six
>> letters. Change the last three letters of the first to form yet another
>> synonym; make the same change to the second to form an antonym to the other
>> three. What are the four words?
>>
>> In the next day or two I'll post the answer (if nobody's gotten it) and
>> explain why it's remotely relevant.
>>
>> In the meantime, any further information on the Bernstein Sonata is much
>> appreciated.

Oops. Truthfully, I thought it was very possible that nobody would be
interested because there was no prize attached or guarantee that it would be
worth the effort.

The answer is: horrible, terrible, horrific, terrific.

The reason I thought this was remotely relevant was this post on 10/21, Dan
Leeson's response to Maurizio Fieschi's translation of "con brio" --

> Maurizio
>
> You are terrific!!
>
> Dan Leeson

-- and the flashback that it induced. I once said the same thing to an
Italienne, and she reacted as though she had been slapped until I explained
that "terrific" and "terrible" are not synonomous.

See, I told you it might not be worth the effort.

--Steve Heinemann

P.S. Still looking for Bernstein Sonata information....

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