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From: Dave Frightens Me on 11 Aug 2006 10:32 On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 12:18:51 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Dave Frightens Me writes: >> Intelligent people live in the same world as anyone else. > >But they are smarter than other people are. Not necessarily. You can be intelligent, but not very smart. -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- --
From: Dave Frightens Me on 11 Aug 2006 10:36 On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 12:19:12 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote: >David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and >deansgate writes: > >> Utter drivel. People will take you seriously if you communicate >> sensibly, and that doesn't necessarily mean you have to manifest >> emotions. > >I wish this were true. It is true. Everyone that asks a sensible question here for example gets a sensible response. As you make a lot of non-sensical comment, people don't take you seriously. You seem to interpret this coupled with your shyness as meaning you are highly intelligent. -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- --
From: Padraig Breathnach on 11 Aug 2006 11:30 Dave Frightens Me <deepfreudmoors(a)eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote: >On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 12:18:51 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> >wrote: > >>Dave Frightens Me writes: > >>> Intelligent people live in the same world as anyone else. >> >>But they are smarter than other people are. > >Not necessarily. You can be intelligent, but not very smart. > I think that is true in Britain and Ireland, possibly true in the Antipodes, but untrue in North America. Americans, as I understand it, use "smart" in a different way from other anglophones. -- PB The return address has been MUNGED My travel writing: http://www.iol.ie/~draoi/
From: Mxsmanic on 11 Aug 2006 11:42 barney2(a)cix.compulink.co.uk writes: > Why, then, was an augmented fourth e.g. C4-F#4 long considered among the > worst of dissonances, despite being closer to an integer ratio than the > frequently-used and entirely-acceptable perfect fifth e.g. C4:G4? Perhaps because they were not exact ratios? Or perhaps due to fashion. > What are the differences in the piano repertoire before and after equal > temperament? Apparently a lot of popular songs at one time were in a small subset of keys, and some tuners chose to tune pianos to favor these keys, to the detriment of others. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: Mxsmanic on 11 Aug 2006 11:43
Dave Frightens Me writes: > You seem to interpret this coupled with your shyness as > meaning you are highly intelligent. I haven't speculated on my own intelligence at all. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail. |