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Comment on Songs My Mother Taught Me by Lois

Lois — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 09:28:20 +0000

Beautiful way to end the day, Bruce, thank you.
And how are you?
Best
Lois

Comment on Zerstreutheit by Zerstreutheit rules | Wordability

Zerstreutheit rules | Wordability — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 12:10:08 +0000

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Comment on Lebrecht, classical music and the new posh by Max Richards

Max Richards — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 08:42:47 +0000

Gosh is wordability the work of one person? so many interests and interesting judgments.
A pity more people don’t know about it.
Sorry not to linger.
best from Max in Doncaster

Comment on A role for James Mason by Garry

Garry — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 07:51:14 +0000

This reminded me of something in Scholes’s Oxford Companion, something which I hadn’t looked at in decades. I wouldn’t be surprised if you had the same ninth edition, 1955, as me. In Plate 132, facing page 753, there’s a photo of the ORGANIST OF KUFSTEIN (in the Tyrol) it says, and goes on to say that he plays to A WHOLE REGION every midday. I wonder who those inhabitants of the REGION feel who prefer, say, The Rolling Stones.
It’s mentioned here: http://www.auracher-loechl.at/en-tyrol_austria-kufstein_fortress.shtml

Comment on Grammar impacts family by Garry

Garry — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 08:51:03 +0000

I noticed on RN this morning someone at the Victorian Bushfire Commission – I think it was Counsel Assisting – speaking of communities ‘impacted’ by the fires. This one is lost.

Comment on Tea for Two by Garry

Garry — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:37:38 +0000

Hmm. I’ve been listening to Tea for Two all my life. I just tried to play it on the piano by ear, and after 45 minutes … gave up trying to work out how to get out of the middle 8, and went in search of the music.

Comment on Chinoiserie and the wicked West by Emile de Bruijn

Emile de Bruijn — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:04:39 +0000

Chinoiserie is often characterised as ‘merely’ decorative, but, like you, I think that is too simplistic. In the seventeenth and early eighteenth century China was seen in the west as an exemplary society. It was admired for its well regulated government and philosphers like Leibniz urged Europeans to learn from China. As a consequence, chinoiserie imagery was occasionally used as a political symbol, denoting ‘rational government’ or ‘virtuous morals’. It was only later that China came to be seen as a quaint country where history stood still and chinoiserie became correspondingly more escapist.

Comment on List, oh list! by Startlingly good Rossini | Wordability

Startlingly good Rossini | Wordability — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 12:46:18 +0000

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Comment on Spam with that? by Garry

Garry — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:40:58 +0000

Thanks to you, the little spam I get on my blog is easily deleted with Akismet. And I have to say that I get no spam at all using Google mail. It does a much better job than the University’s program.

Comment on Petits-fours? by Garry

Garry — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:36:13 +0000

An odd thing about your entry is that the URL to which you link spells the confectioner’s name wrongly. The actual site gets its right: http://www.laduree.fr/ So there was a possibility that the joke was in the error. But I’m sure you’re referring to Bergson. I did attempt to write a joke en français, but I lack the intestinal fortitude to send it.