From: David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate on
<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! :)

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From: barney2 on
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
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
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
<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!

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