Clarkson green (well for today, anyway).

[MrGongGong]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2015/04/01/396395237/a-sale-is-booming-rare-stradivarius-drums-up-for-auction

http://www.sinfinimusic.com/uk/features/news/pitch-standardisation-april-2015

[Bryn]

http://www.sinfinimusic.com/uk/featu...ion-april-2015

Hmm, so when does the Pythagorean comma get upgraded to semi-colonic status?

[Alain Maréchal]

Like believing in sky fairies and other such nonsense you mean?

I do not think the quotation, by itself, suggests anything other than sound advice. Its source, supernatural or not, is irrelevant, in the way that

<<Take but degree away, untune that string,
And, hark, what discord follows!>>

gives no clue to the political views of its author.

[MrGongGong]

I do not think the quotation, by itself, suggests anything other than sound advice.

It's cr*p advice IMV as it implies that the perceptions of children are inherently of little value
when often the exact opposite is true

[Flay]

Whereas King's College, Cambridge have taken it to their hearts.....

They do seem to be the kings of the April Fool. Remember this?

[Nick Armstrong]

[Alain Maréchal]

It's cr*p advice IMV as it implies that the perceptions of children are inherently of little value
when often the exact opposite is true

Fortunately I have little to do with them, but I have never heard any child's opinion worth listening to. They have insufficient knowledge of the world. In any case, it would not suggest why adults should emulate children by creating elaborate practical jokes.

[MrGongGong]

Fortunately I have little to do with them, but I have never heard any child's opinion worth listening to. They have insufficient knowledge of the world.

(shades of Simon on Stockhausen )

[Bryn]

... I have never heard any child's opinion worth listening to.

Try listening ...

They have insufficient knowledge of the world.

Don't we all.

[Alain Maréchal]

Try listening ...

Perhaps I should have phrased it otherwise, the syntax was misleading. What I intended was: I have rarely heard an opinion expressed by a child which did not, on reflection, show that the child had sufficient knowledge to validate the opinion.

[Bryn]

Perhaps I should have phrased it otherwise, the syntax was misleading. What I intended was: I have rarely heard an opinion expressed by a child which did not, on reflection, show that the child had sufficient knowledge to validate the opinion.

If you have placed your negatives as intended, then all's well with the world.

[PJPJ]

If you have placed your negatives as intended, then all's well with the world.

Indeed.

[kernelbogey]

Perhaps I should have phrased it otherwise, the syntax was misleading. What I intended was: I have rarely heard an opinion expressed by a child which did not, on reflection, show that the child had sufficient knowledge to validate the opinion.

My son, aged seven, arguing with contemporaries over the existence of Father Christmas, announced that he knew a child who had denied the existence of Father Christmas, after which he only ever received Christmas presents from his parents. I've always thought this brilliant.

[Alain Maréchal]

If you have placed your negatives as intended, then all's well with the world.

Oh now you've thoroughly confused me. I have enough trouble with negatives starting aucune and personne. I'll make it simpler: I have rarely heard a child's opinion worth listening to. There, that's how I started, and that's what I meant.

[ahinton]

Hmm, so when does the Pythagorean comma get upgraded to semi-colonic status?

I do not profess to know for sure but what I would say in direct respose to your punctuational question is that, in the absence of such certain knowledge, the standard and, it would seem, traditionally expected colon in the titles of academic dissertations and the like (as exemplified in http://www.physics.nyu.edu/sokal/tra...inglefile.html and like examples from the Postmodernism Generator - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism_Generator and the likes of http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/) is the kind of thing that happens to bring to my perverse mind the notion of "colonic irritation", an academic condition for which it seems that there is as yet no reliable known cure...