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Author: Casey WooooooO
Date: 2001-12-08 02:21
hi-
do not laugh at me on this one
but i have thought about naming my clarinet, and so i did. but i dont think it is quite right...i name it Pepper cause it's black like pepper. AND i named my reed's Salt...( dont ask )....any suggestions??? or am i REALLY loosing my mind...my band director prolly thinks i have gone way over the rainbow, or is it way over a hill? i am not sure...anywho...i am not sure on this one. i mean whats next? i not only named it i talk to it! ..yes it's true..i am loosing my mind. WooooooooooO
*casey
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Author: C@p
Date: 2001-12-08 02:56
I think this is an issue between you and your clarient. Whatever the two of you decide should be respected.
If you want further guidance, try: http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/
C@p
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Author: Cinsy
Date: 2001-12-08 23:18
Hey, don't worry. You're not going insane. My friend has an oboe named Selma, and a violin with a name that I can't remember. So, you're not the only one.
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Author: MsRoboto
Date: 2001-12-09 05:32
All my clarinets have the same name. Clara short for Clarabelle or just a stupid nickname for a clarinet. Enjoy!!
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Author: Emms
Date: 2001-12-09 11:51
I have a friend with a bass clarinet called Boris!
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Author: John Kelly - Australia
Date: 2001-12-15 22:35
"name's" is the possessive case - you should use "names" without the apostrophe. As for "prolly" I suppose you mean "probably" - and if you want to refer to yourself in the lower case - I guess that's your business.
As English is the given language of communication in this forum am I being too picky in suggesting that correct grammar is used, just to ensure one's particular message is conveyed in the fullest manner possible?
I'm not actually sure, from your message, whether you are serious or seriously loopy.
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Author: Peter
Date: 2001-12-16 07:38
John,
While I agree with you, I'm glad I was not the one who said that! Are you trying to compete with me for the title of reigning b-----d on the BB? (Just funnin' ya.)
I work with young people and communicate with them on a regular basis. The main problem I see is that, generally speaking, parents in the U.S., in this day and age, don't insist on their children being well mannered, well instructed, socially graceful and/or that they should use any or many of those talents in their everyday life.
Because of that, it's been a battle with my children to ensure they learn and make use of the proper "graces" in life. At least they learned the right way, and use it in front of us, if perhaps not always not behind our backs.
I work for some of the largest national and international corporations here, in the U.S., and regularly get to eat in their executive dining rooms. You would faint from the shock to see the large number of young(er) executives who grab their forks and spoons in their fist. They look as if they were using it in a knife-fight. Thus, they eat in public, in an upper-level corporate executive environment, where upper-level corporate clients regularly visit and see them doing things like that.
The spelling and grammar of many of these adults is also atrocious. It makes you wonder how they graduated college! I get letters and e-mails from them all the time. Including some that were supposedly written by professional executive assistants and otherwise, in which often, several words are spelled incorrectly and/or grammatical terms and/or words are used either incorrectly or out of context.
I also see that in brochures and annual reports costing upwards of a hundred thousand dollars to develop and print! For shame! Even if they are type-os, you'd think someone with the proper credentials would proofread written items from a high-class corporation before they are made public, to whatever degree.
Things like this tarnish images, yet heads don't roll when they happen. What does that tell you?
We won't even go into whether American children of the proper school-grade levels can name many U.S. State capitals, much less world capitals.
I am not trying to knock us, even though it seems like I am, but the truth is that what I have just said is too painfully true of us, our education system, and the regard in which many parents place what could be construed as the proper education of their children today. That and the laws dealing with children's rights not to be properly chastised by parents or teachers diminishes enthusiasm on anyone else's part.
While I respect everyone's rights to be who they are, or want to be, it's still difficult for me to believe that some colleges took up and are still teaching "Ebonics" as part of their languages curriculum. Who knows, they might even take up "Spanglish" next.
But, probably to our dismay, these things will eventually become the standard, as more of the younger generation (and their parents) disregards the rules of propriety on their way through life.
However, the young man who wrote the initial post here is yet very young, so perhaps he is still at the excusable age. Then again, perhaps it’s that kind of thinking that makes a majority of today’s children so grammatically incorrect, etc.!
I just know I'm going to suffer for this spiel!
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2001-12-16 15:30
John - the rules here are to <b>NOT</b> correct spelling or grammar. Please, if you would, spell the words and use correct grammar in your followup (one, of course, related to the question) buit do <b>not</b> go about and correct their grammer or spelling here. Show the correct way by example.
It's a rule here, and I expect everyone to follow it.
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Author: John Kelly - Australia
Date: 2001-12-16 21:44
Mark,
My aim was to determine the authenticity of the original message. We will probably remember the drummer series of postings from last year or so and I wonder still, if he was genuine.
I'm quite happy to stick to the point of a message as long as the language used enables me to understand the message in the first instance.
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Author: Emms
Date: 2001-12-17 17:49
But Peter, I didn't think any Americans could spell!! Labor -(labour), Humor-(humour), Flavor-(flavour), Fiber-(fibre), Color-(colour), Harbor-(harbour), Horn-(clarinet!!!)
Since the film Pearl Harbor came out, most English teachers here have had nervous breakdowns.
;-)
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Author: Peter
Date: 2001-12-18 06:02
Ey thar, I reckon yall ought to know my englich is good and thar aint notting wrung wit it. It got it learnt to me by my grammar, who wuz my grampar's ole lady since afore I wuz birtht!
And don't nobody fergit it neither!
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Author: Bea Starr
Date: 2002-01-23 01:01
I found Peter and John Kelly's responces extremely rude, as I am only in 8th grade. I know for a fact that not all children or people who are younger than them are the ones who need help in grammer or writing, and when Casey was expressing herself, she was only trying to start a conversation about instrument names not spelling and grammer!!!! THINK BEFORE YOU WRITE!!!!!! others have feelings too!!!
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