Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[jean]

Has anyone ever said that music is a thing?

We all do it, every time we use the noun 'music'.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

"Musicking"? Not for me.


I'll be too busy Arting.

I don't even like "musicality"

[doversoul1]

S-A #2025

I guessed/assumed that was the point of Small’s argument/theory but I wish he had thought about or coined more original or imaginative term. Misicking to me sounds simply lazy use of language, like ‘do’.

[Beef Oven!]

"They cannot be named for legal reasons"

[MrGongGong]

It is the latter that Small would seek to have restored to music making, or musicking.

Music, Society, Education is one of the great books about music IMV

I find the word Musicking very useful in discussing musics that don't fall outside the supposed "mainstream".

[ahinton]

"They cannot be named for legal reasons"

Any particular reason for that one?

[Pabmusic]

"They cannot be named for legal reasons"

I'm not sure what you're on about.

Do you mean that vulnerable people should be named? Or, if it's just the phrasing you dislike, what alternative would you suggest?

[jean]

You'd have thought he'd have been relieved not to have been named, in the circumstances.

[P. G. Tipps]

You'd have thought he'd have been relieved not to have been named, in the circumstances.

I certainly do not see any automatic gender/numerical connection between 'they' and 'he' whatever the legalities ...

[ahinton]

I certainly do not see any automatic gender/numerical connection between 'they' and 'he' whatever the legalities ...

But unless jean's #2033 is intended to suggest otherwise by its reference to "he" (and, if so, it would seem that neither the particular "he" nor the "circumstances" concerned is identified), I'm not sure that this is an issue - or at least the issue - is it? I simply asked Beefy what it is about the phrase that he quoted that sets his teeth on edge and I'm still unclear about that (as presumably is Pabs also).

[jean]

I certainly do not see any automatic gender/numerical connection between 'they' and 'he' whatever the legalities ...

I was referring to Beefy, whose teeth were set on edge by the phrase.

I could see no reason for the effect it had on him unless he had at some time been one of those to whom it had been applied - and in that case, wouldn't he have been relieved?

[ahinton]

I was referring to Beefy, whose teeth were set on edge by the phrase.

I see; I understand it now.

I could see no reason for the effect it had on him unless he had at some time been one of those to whom it had been applied

Nor me.

and in that case, wouldn't he have been relieved?

One would certainly assume so!

[teamsaint]

So, super injunctions. Always in the public interest? Although actually I dont think Beefys phrase applies there, but even so....

[Beef Oven!]

I'm not sure what you're on about.

Do you mean that vulnerable people should be named? Or, if it's just the phrasing you dislike, what alternative would you suggest?

"Vulnerable people"

[P. G. Tipps]

I One would certanily assume so!

I once said that to a newly-installed boss of mine, who replied in a similar fashion to .... 'look, monkey-face, to 'assume' anything can often make an 'ass' of 'u' and 'me'.

How true, ahinton!

The poor chap was summarily dismissed shortly afterwards for being 'unsuitable', allegedly in the area of managing and inspiring subordinates.

Funny, he remains one of the few bosses I ever had who's advice to me made any sort of impressionable and lasting impact ...