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From: Stanislas de Kertanguy on 18 Jul 2006 06:54 jeremyrh.geo(a)yahoo.com a formul? la demande : > A person who cannot write grammatically flawless French can still > understand French. And that's a good thing, because were that not true, many of my pupils would be in a dark hole ... -- remplacez "lesptt" par "laposte" pour me joindre substitute "laposte" for "lesptt" to reach me
From: Stanislas de Kertanguy on 18 Jul 2006 07:04 Le 18/07/2006, Martin a suppos? : > On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:54:10 +0200, Stanislas de Kertanguy > <stanislas.dekertanguy(a)lesptt.net> wrote: > >> jeremyrh.geo(a)yahoo.com a formul? la demande : >>> A person who cannot write grammatically flawless French can still >>> understand French. >> >> And that's a good thing, because were that not true, many of my pupils >> would be in a dark hole ... > > ... with Mixi? Say it's not true. :-) No, for as far as I know, Mxsmanix does not teach French :-) -- remplacez "lesptt" par "laposte" pour me joindre substitute "laposte" for "lesptt" to reach me
From: Dave Frightens Me on 18 Jul 2006 07:36 On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 11:02:36 +0100, this_address_is_for_spam(a)yahoo.com (David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco 24h offy) wrote: >Dave Frightens Me <deepfreudmoors(a)eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote: > >> On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 11:46:51 +0100, this_address_is_for_spam(a)yahoo.com >> (David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and >> prestwich tesco 24h offy) wrote: >> >> >The Reid <dontuse(a)fell-walker.co.uk> wrote: >> > >> >> Following up to David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the duchy of >> >> besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco 24h offy >> >> >> >> >> fixed tone? surely that's not a requirement, >> >> > >> >> >No it isn't. Tone, fixed or otherwise, isn't even a requirement. >> >> >> >> I'm not sure I understand and I'm wondering if I will regret >> >> asking? >> > >> >Well, music doesn't necessarily have specific pitch. Drumming for >> >example. I think that what DFM meant by 'fixed tone' was music that had >> >pitches set roughly around specific frequencies. That's not a universal >> >rule either. >> >> Well, at least I went out on a limb enough to try define it! >> >> I actually would say the fixed pitches are a requirement for music, as >> anything else would be just a soundscape, > >That's a difference without a distinction. Fixed pitches are definitely >not a requirement. Drumming is music. That would be the exception that proves the rule then, as very little music is pure percussive. -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- --
From: The Reid on 18 Jul 2006 07:55 Following up to Dave Frightens Me >>That's a difference without a distinction. Fixed pitches are definitely >>not a requirement. Drumming is music. > >That would be the exception that proves the rule then, as very little >music is pure percussive. Speaking as a philistine who failed at sax, drums and electric bass, what you need is a nice whistleable tune with them fixed notes. Nice tune, bit of rythym, thats what you need. IDKMAABIKWIL -- Mike Reid Walk-eat-photos UK "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" <-- you can email us@ this site Walk-eat-photos Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" <-- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap
From: Stanislas de Kertanguy on 18 Jul 2006 08:28
Apr?s m?re r?flexion, Mxsmanic a ?crit : > The Reid writes: > >> that's why we don't attempt to translate words like schadenfreude >> and duende. > > Instead, we look up their translations. There's no translation of /schadenfreude/ either in English or French, but paraphrases. -- remplacez "lesptt" par "laposte" pour me joindre substitute "laposte" for "lesptt" to reach me |