Thanks for your tolerance. I guess I should have addressed one-on-one. Is
it pedantic to expect spelling to be correct, especially in this era of
spell checkers? Typos occur in the haste of these communications; constant
error needs to be pointed out, else they pass and become habitual. It may
seem pompous to say this, but I love (as colleagues) all on this list and
others I belong to. I certainly meant no offense. (I don't make smiley
faces -- to me they smack of Dilbertism. But, to each his/her own.)
Nigel Higgs wrote:
> A pedantic attitude may well be just tolerable in a one on one situation
> where you love the Pedant in question but where it gets exposed to a
> whole community it descends into the realms of the Global Put-Down. This
> isn't being caring, this is just bigheadedness - wanting to be clever in
> front of the girls.
>
> I can only hope that you meant this in jest but didn't bother to add the
> obligatory smiley face.
>
> So maybe we should forgive Leon. Acept that it was just a miztake,
> arfta al thts hooow our langwage evolvvved.
>
> :-)
>
> Nigel (Higgs)
>
> Leon Levitt wrote of Barbara Golden's message:
>
> Regrettable is your repetition of "repitition."
>
> Barbara Golden wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm back about repitition. My point was NOT to stand up for
> repitition
> > (meaning repeating over and over again right now, tonight),
> but that it is
> > important to do something long enough and enough times OVER
> TIME to become
> > good at it.
> >
> > No, I didn't start music lessons because I loved to play music
> (or loved
> > repition), but to get over my fear of being a beginner and not
> doing things
> > perfectly. I studied at first with great frustration and
> dislike.
> >
> > My learning has been more about life than about piano. After a
> year and a half
> > of torture and agony, I am beginning to love it.
> >
> > I haven't gone through one classical piece even once without
> mistakes, but I
> > look forward to playing it 26 times (not in one day or even 26
> days)
> > perfectly. I will allow as much time as that takes. My point
> was that learning
> > sometimes takes time, not that I relish repitition.
> >
> > I was saying simply that some things take a long time of doing
> it many times
> > before it is done well. You probably gave playing guitar some
> time before you
> > were good at it.
> >
> > Barbara