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  • handsomefortune

    #91
    jean, i'm fine thank you very much. i can see you are on excellent form as always. though tbh i was rather enjoying a brief pretense of 'not knowing each other from adam'....... or, can i nominate someone else, from a different story perhaps?

    i can sense that senna pods might well be really disastrous, having realised what they are caliban .... but thought perhaps they may be a percussion instrument, as they're sometimes full of pods ....as for the (outsized) 'trumpet', you can't call that a 'tuba mirum'.... more a 'maximum tuba' surely?

    anyway, back ontopic and 'paradise'.

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    • LeMartinPecheur
      Full Member
      • Apr 2007
      • 4717

      #92
      Originally posted by jean View Post
      To be really pedantic, may I point out that that isn't a tuba, which in English would be trumpet...
      But in German a trombone - "...zu der Zeit der letzten Posaune"
      I keep hitting the Escape key, but I'm still here!

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      • Eine Alpensinfonie
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 20570

        #93
        Originally posted by mangerton View Post
        The very book I started with in 1962. We had a weekly ink exercise to hand in first thing every Monday.
        I've been trying to track down a copy of this book (which I also started in 1962), but so far I've only managed to find "The New Approach to Latin", which pushes all the grammar to the back.

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        • Nick Armstrong
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 26523

          #94
          Originally posted by handsomefortune View Post

          i can sense that senna pods might well be really disastrous, having realised what they are caliban .... but thought perhaps they may be a percussion instrument, as they're sometimes full of pods ....as for the (outsized) 'trumpet', you can't call that a 'tuba mirum'.... more a 'maximum tuba' surely?
          It's actually a bass bugle!

          Vinteuil is the senna-pod expert: any questions to him please, on a postcard marked 'chez Swann'...

          "...the isle is full of noises,
          Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
          Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
          Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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          • handsomefortune

            #95
            yep, you don't support a tuba on your shoulder do you caliban?... and i did think of huntsman when i saw your pic...though that'd be some task: riding while blowing that huge bass bugle ..(i do hope macaroon trys it on that ex police horse mind you, it could easily be a valuable ritual of 'the big soc')!

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            • jean
              Late member
              • Nov 2010
              • 7100

              #96
              Originally posted by handsomefortune View Post
              ... as for the (outsized) 'trumpet', you can't call that a 'tuba mirum'...
              You certainly can't!

              It's the sonum that emerges from it that's mirum; the tuba itself would have to be mira. Or maxima.

              Oh the fun we used to have on the old Beeb WH board!

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              • amateur51

                #97
                Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                It's actually a bass bugle!

                Vinteuil is the senna-pod expert: any questions to him please, on a postcard marked 'chez Swann'...

                My Nain was the senna-pod expert - she believed that bowels were meant to be kept on the move and regulated at all times. She took charcoal biscuits after every meal to absorb the gases (!) and my father mused once that she probably needed an annual de-coke

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                • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                  Gone fishin'
                  • Sep 2011
                  • 30163

                  #98
                  [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                  • Nick Armstrong
                    Host
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 26523

                    #99
                    Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                    My Nain was the senna-pod expert - she believed that bowels were meant to be kept on the move and regulated at all times. She took charcoal biscuits after every meal to absorb the gases (!) and my father mused once that she probably needed an annual de-coke


                    John Fletcher, one of the best tuba players from Britain.www.johnfletcher-tuba.co.uk/
                    "...the isle is full of noises,
                    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                    • amateur51

                      I've just checked in my Collins Spurrell and I'm relieved to find that there is no Welsh equivalent of petomaine

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                      • Serial_Apologist
                        Full Member
                        • Dec 2010
                        • 37589

                        Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                        I'm relieved
                        Glad to hear it, ams!

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                        • Lateralthinking1

                          The return of Lord Baker to the airwaves this morning. Subject - education.

                          14 year olds at the new technical schools will have a challenging "curricallum" (presumably somewhere between aka and Jamie). They will also be treated like "a dults" (what is a dults?). And then there were those ludicrous overly rounded vowels.

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                          • handsomefortune

                            perhaps he said 'dorks' lat!?

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                            • mercia
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 8920

                              well well, I didn't know that decimate used to mean to kill 10% of a group - makes sense though
                              Language enthusiasts bemoan the way words are being misused. But will the "improper" meanings take over?

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                              • Panjandrum

                                Originally posted by mercia View Post
                                well well, I didn't know that decimate used to mean to kill 10% of a group - makes sense though
                                http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17762034
                                Yes. One of those words, like fortuitous; or invariably; which is, er, almost invariably, used incorrectly.

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