From: David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate on 21 Jul 2006 06:09 <barney2(a)cix.compulink.co.uk> wrote: > In article <dqsvb25tkcnpamjs6t284ih7r1j1vbeosh(a)4ax.com>, > deepfreudmoors(a)eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu (Dave Frightens Me) wrote: > > > *From:* Dave Frightens Me <deepfreudmoors(a)eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> > > *Date:* Thu, 20 Jul 2006 23:20:38 +0200 > > > > On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 07:39:27 -0500, barney2(a)cix.compulink.co.uk wrote: > > > > >Not really - purely on the basis of English and a couple of half-known > > >Romance languages, I can pretty well understand the first Esperanto > > >sentence I managed to find on the Web just now: > > > > > >La Akademio de Esperanto estas sendependa lingva institucio, kies > > tasko >estas konservi kaj protekti la fundamentajn principojn de la > > lingvo >Esperanto kaj kontroli gian evoluon. > > > > > >(The Academy of Esperanto is an independent linguistic institution, > > whose >task is to conserve and protect the fundamental principles of > > the >Esperanto language and control its evolution.) > > > > They chose 'kaj' for 'and'? What language does that come from? > > Maybe it doesn't mean 'and' - it could mean 'then', for example, but 'and' > was my guess from the context... It definitely means 'and.' I'm not an expert on esperanto, but I'm pretty hot with google! :) -- David Horne- http://www.davidhorne.net usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk http://homepage.mac.com/davidhornecomposer http://soundjunction.org
From: barney2 on 21 Jul 2006 06:39 In article <1hitobd.2ddx1y1cmc3ttN%this_address_is_for_spam(a)yahoo.com>, this_address_is_for_spam(a)yahoo.com (David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate) wrote: > *From:* this_address_is_for_spam(a)yahoo.com (David Horne, _the_ > chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate) > *Date:* Fri, 21 Jul 2006 11:09:41 +0100 > > <barney2(a)cix.compulink.co.uk> wrote: > > > In article <dqsvb25tkcnpamjs6t284ih7r1j1vbeosh(a)4ax.com>, > > deepfreudmoors(a)eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu (Dave Frightens Me) wrote: > > > > > *From:* Dave Frightens Me <deepfreudmoors(a)eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> > > > *Date:* Thu, 20 Jul 2006 23:20:38 +0200 > > > > > > On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 07:39:27 -0500, barney2(a)cix.compulink.co.uk > > > wrote: > > > > > > >Not really - purely on the basis of English and a couple of > > > half-known > > > >Romance languages, I can pretty well understand the first Esperanto > > > >sentence I managed to find on the Web just now: > > > > > > > >La Akademio de Esperanto estas sendependa lingva institucio, kies > > > tasko >estas konservi kaj protekti la fundamentajn principojn de la > > > lingvo >Esperanto kaj kontroli gian evoluon. > > > > > > > >(The Academy of Esperanto is an independent linguistic institution, > > > whose >task is to conserve and protect the fundamental principles of > > > the >Esperanto language and control its evolution.) > > > > > > They chose 'kaj' for 'and'? What language does that come from? > > > > Maybe it doesn't mean 'and' - it could mean 'then', for example, but > > 'and' > > was my guess from the context... > > It definitely means 'and.' I'm not an expert on esperanto, but I'm > pretty hot with google! :) I deliberately avoided Googling as we were discussing comprehension of Esperanto without a reference. ;)
From: barney2 on 21 Jul 2006 11:44 In article <1hitnfv.s6m7qft9ugjrN%this_address_is_for_spam(a)yahoo.com>, this_address_is_for_spam(a)yahoo.com (David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate) wrote: > I'm particularly interested in woodwind fingerings at the moment, and > have considered buying some really cheap instruments to 'learn' a wide > range of them. http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/MShaneMcl/mozart4.htm
From: barney2 on 21 Jul 2006 11:44 In article <j221c25gbrk9rteguim692k7o289k6vtdo(a)4ax.com>, me(a)privacy.net (Martin) wrote: > *From:* Martin <me(a)privacy.net> > *Date:* Fri, 21 Jul 2006 10:01:24 +0200 > > On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 21:03:05 +0100, this_address_is_for_spam(a)yahoo.com > (David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and > deansgate) wrote: > > >Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) writes: > >> > >> > How odd that no one seems to accept what you claim is true! > >> > >> They are the ones who haven't looked it up. > > > >Where did you look up the rubbish you write about music? > > A beginner's workshop manual for water cooled nose flutes. > > Talking of which, can you recommend a good text book for music theory, > David? Not on music theory per se, but a good general introductory read, is Aaron Copland's "What To Listen For In Music".
From: David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate on 21 Jul 2006 11:50
<barney2(a)cix.compulink.co.uk> wrote: > In article <1hitnfv.s6m7qft9ugjrN%this_address_is_for_spam(a)yahoo.com>, > this_address_is_for_spam(a)yahoo.com (David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the > royal duchy of city south and deansgate) wrote: > > > I'm particularly interested in woodwind fingerings at the moment, and > > have considered buying some really cheap instruments to 'learn' a wide > > range of them. > > http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/MShaneMcl/mozart4.htm I like it! -- David Horne- http://www.davidhorne.net usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk http://homepage.mac.com/davidhornecomposer http://soundjunction.org |