Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[MrGongGong]

Reminds me of the term "cascade", a word with inherent implications of something exciting and dynamic, but which is used in organisations for a mostly rather dreary and dispiriting process whereby an individual is instructed to attend a meeting or briefing, take notes and then report back to unsuspecting workmates on insights and findings. This means that the poor individual concerned actually has to pay attention and concentrate, however tedious, pointless and riddled with annoying buzzwords the meeting might be.

I ran a course for music teachers last year where one school sent a single member of staff who was "tasked" (AAAAAAAARGH THAT ONE AS WELL ) with "Cascading" what we did to the others........ hopeless idea.

I once met Maxim Vengerov who was in a practice room before me, no matter how hard I try I seem unable to "cascade" what I heard him doing if I pick up a fiddle.

[Nick Armstrong]

"Trickle-Down Economics"

"cascade"

Linked one assumes with the charming management guff "If you want to run with the big dogs, you have to learn to piss in the long grass."

Presumably doing all the above indoors (as opposed to in a green-field or more probably brown-field situation) demands absorbent granularity, ideally in an out-of-the-box yet in-box sense

[teamsaint]

Quantitative easing.

[edashtav]

Quantitative easing.

Oh no, ts , you can't put Quantitative Easing into Room 101.
I'm a retired chemistry teacher who misses telling students the difference between qualitative and quantitative analysis.

Thanks to Quantitative Easing today's chemistry teachers have an easier ride.

[teamsaint]

Oh no, ts , you can't put Quantitative Easing into Room 101.
I'm a retired chemistry teacher who misses telling students the difference between qualitative and quantitative analysis.

Thanks to Quantitative Easing today's chemistry teachers have an easier ride.

Oh well, the banking disaster and consequent restructuring of the economies of europe along lines even more favourable to those institutions will all have been worth it, then.

Any more good news from the Labs, Ed?

[Nick Armstrong]

Denis as in the R3 website listing for the programme currently playing...

Franz Peter Schubert
Symphony no. 9 in C major D.944 (Great)
Conductor: Simon Denis Rattle, CBE.
Orchestra: BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA




What are they on ?!

[teamsaint]

Denis as in the R3 website listing for the programme currently playing...

Franz Peter Schubert
Symphony no. 9 in C major D.944 (Great)
Conductor: Simon Denis Rattle, CBE.
Orchestra: BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA




What are they on ?!

Internships?

he is a bit of a Blondie these days though... (aren't we all?....)


come to think of it:

"Former New Generation Artist."

A sort of upmarket " former child prodigy".

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

What are they on ?!

Wiki - according to which, that's actually his middle name.

[Stanfordian]

[/B][/SIZE]

Internships?

he is a bit of a Blondie these days though... (aren't we all?....)


come to think of it:

"Former New Generation Artist."

A sort of upmarket " former child prodigy".

Hiya teamsaint,

Some of the BBC Radio 3 presenters from yesteryear must be turning in their graves.

[edashtav]

Oh well, the banking disaster and consequent restructuring of the economies of europe along lines even more favourable to those institutions will all have been worth it, then.

Any more good news from the Labs, Ed?

Yes, since Edgar Varese composed his Density 21.5, many more youngsters know the mass of a cubic centimetre of platinum - and, come to think of it, since cheap fountain pens in schools have been defeated by a less messy invention of a Hungarian, more students know that the element is not "platignum" .

[muzzer]

"Price point" when used to mean 'price'. If ever there were a need for Ockham's Razor..

[P. G. Tipps]

"Price point" when used to mean 'price'. If ever there were a need for Ockham's Razor..

Yes ... in a similar league to 'at this moment in time'.

And as soon as the silly phrase reaches the ear of the listener the moment has already passed into history ...

[ahinton]

Yes ... in a similar league to 'at this moment in time'.

And as soon as the silly phrase reaches the ear of the listener the moment has already passed into history ...

That reminds me of one in Bartolozzi's New Sounds for Woodwind from the late 60s - "verticalised adjacencies"; now what do you suppose that they were/are?...

[french frank]

Simon Denis Rattle, CBE.
Orchestra: BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA[/I]




What are they on ?![/COLOR]

I noticed that a couple of weeks ago - but thank you for reminding me.

On the analogy of:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Franz Peter Schubert
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni
and, no doubt, Johann Sebastian ... Strauss, and all the Russian composers that get the full dibs. Why don't they realise that this doesn't show 'erudition' - it suggests ignorance: yes, Johann Sebastian Bach, perhaps Franz Schubert, Leopold Mozart certainly. But otherwise Beethoven and Mozart generally suffice. And, should he get played on Breakfast, Lucien Denis Gabriel Albéric Magnard would at least show a system. As for awards ... what makes Sir Simon Denis so special? Why not Sir William Turner Walton OM? And if it comes to that, why not Sir Simon Denis Rattle, OM CBE?

[jean]

Tricky though, because though Mozart is enough, Wolfgang Amadeus is definitely preferable to Wolfgang.