Beethoven's String Quartets

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Gurn Blanston

Quote from: RJR on January 23, 2011, 05:52:12 PM
Execrable? Are you French?

No, it's OK, it is a perfectly acceptable English word too. It means execrable. Usually it is hyperbole, just like in French.  :D  :D

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Mandryka

The french for execrable is exécrable.
Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen

karlhenning

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DavidRoss

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on January 24, 2011, 04:38:21 AM
Stil waiting for my Vermeer set to land.
Mek, too--and I was notified that it had shipped more than two weeks ago.  Strange, since mail from the UK usually takes about 3 days.  Perhaps the fellows in customs are ripping their own copies....  ;)
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Scarpia

Quote from: DavidRoss on January 24, 2011, 07:56:35 AM
Mek, too--and I was notified that it had shipped more than two weeks ago.  Strange, since mail from the UK usually takes about 3 days.  Perhaps the fellows in customs are ripping their own copies....  ;)

I've noticed recently that mail from the UK has been taking a lot longer than I'm accustomed to.

karlhenning

Quote from: DavidRoss on January 24, 2011, 07:56:35 AM
Mek, too--and I was notified that it had shipped more than two weeks ago.  Strange, since mail from the UK usually takes about 3 days.  Perhaps the fellows in customs are ripping their own copies....  ;)

Yes, I got my ORDER DISPATCHED message on 5 January.

Gurn Blanston

Quote from: DavidRoss on January 24, 2011, 07:56:35 AM
Mek, too--and I was notified that it had shipped more than two weeks ago.  Strange, since mail from the UK usually takes about 3 days.  Perhaps the fellows in customs are ripping their own copies....  ;)

You guys must have missed my note in The Corner vis-a-vis parcels shipped from the UK & Germany. I just received some late last week that were posted on 12/10!  One of the vendors copied me on an email he got from the Royal Mail concerning US Homeland Security hand-checking every single parcel before sending it on. This was due to the toner cartridge crap a few weeks previous. My stuff arrived well, and the tipoff to me was that it was 3 parcels sent at different times from 3 vendors in 2 countries, but they all arrived to me in the same delivery.... :-\

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karlhenning

Thanks for the word, Gurn! At least, we may look forward to a happy conclusion!

A bit disappointed, though . . . I was really looking forward to immersion this week in the Beethoven quartets. Guess I'd better get back to
Monk ; )

Scarpia

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on January 24, 2011, 08:05:36 AM
Thanks for the word, Gurn! At least, we may look forward to a happy conclusion!

A bit disappointed, though . . . I was really looking forward to immersion this week in the Beethoven quartets. Guess I'd better get back to
Monk ; )

Thelonius, or the cop show?

Scarpia

Quote from: Gurn Blanston on January 24, 2011, 08:03:26 AMOne of the vendors copied me on an email he got from the Royal Mail concerning US Homeland Security hand-checking every single parcel before sending it on. This was due to the toner cartridge crap a few weeks previous.

And with 31 reported dead due to a bomb at the international terminal of a Moscow airport, I don't see homeland security getting more easy going anytime soon.   If some lunatic decides to pack a bomb into one of those Brilliant Classics, complete works of Dittersdorf sets we're done for. 


DavidRoss

Quote from: Scarpia on January 24, 2011, 08:10:12 AM
And with 31 reported dead due to a b*mb at the international terminal of a Moscow airport, I don't see homeland security getting more easy going anytime soon.   If some lunatic decides to pack a b*mb into one of those Brilliant Classics, complete works of Dittersdorf sets we're done for.
The complete works of Dittersdorf are already a b*mb.
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premont

Quote from: DavidRoss on January 24, 2011, 08:15:55 AM
The complete works of Dittersdorf are already a b*mb.

Which will b*mb us back to the musical stoneage. ;D
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Gurn Blanston

Quote from: Scarpia on January 24, 2011, 08:10:12 AM
And with 31 reported dead due to a bomb at the international terminal of a Moscow airport, I don't see homeland security getting more easy going anytime soon.   If some lunatic decides to pack a bomb into one of those Brilliant Classics, complete works of Dittersdorf sets we're done for.

Yes, despite the fact that the attack was of a different nature, I can only think that security everywhere will be tightened even further. If we can't have normal travel and business dealings between countries, does this mean the terrorists have won?

I'm going to listen to some music by Ditters and ponder that question. :)

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Brahmsian

Quote from: DavidRoss on January 24, 2011, 08:15:55 AM
The complete works of Dittersdorf are already a b*mb.

:D

Well, let us remember that one man's stink bomb is another man's potpourri.

DavidRoss

Quote from: Gurn Blanston on January 24, 2011, 09:33:17 AM
Yes, despite the fact that the attack was of a different nature, I can only think that security everywhere will be tightened even further. If we can't have normal travel and business dealings between countries, does this mean the terrorists have won?
Won a battle, at least, and by virtue of our own idiocy.  We've done far more damage to ourselves by crippling our own travel and transportation industries than Osama bin Laden could have imagined in his wildest wet dreams.
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Gurn Blanston

Quote from: DavidRoss on January 24, 2011, 09:54:05 AM
Won a battle, at least, and by virtue of our own idiocy.  We've done far more damage to ourselves by crippling our own travel and transportation industries than Osama bin Laden could have imagined in his wildest wet dreams.

You've sussed out my thoughts exactly, David. I'd go further and say our economies in general. But I digress, my apologies to the thread starter. :-\  Can't get a damned CD delivered in under 6 weeks, where will it end?  ::)

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Quote from: Gurn Blanston on January 24, 2011, 10:21:18 AM
You've sussed out my thoughts exactly, David. I'd go further and say our economies in general. But I digress, my apologies to the thread starter. :-\  Can't get a damned CD delivered in under 6 weeks, where will it end?  ::)

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Scarpia

Quote from: Gurn Blanston on January 24, 2011, 10:21:18 AM
You've sussed out my thoughts exactly, David. I'd go further and say our economies in general. But I digress, my apologies to the thread starter. :-\  Can't get a damned CD delivered in under 6 weeks, where will it end?  ::)

In my more pessimistic moments I imagine the US becoming a distinctly second rate power by the next generation.  One reason the US has managed to maintain its position of economic leadership is that it is the world leader in scientific and technical innovation.   But the US has cut (in actual buying power, not just in relation to GDP) its support the science and engineering research every year for the last decade.   Scientists have traditionally come to the US to study and have remained here because it has been far easier to find support for research here than anywhere else in the world.  (Attracting and retaining those scientists is critical, of course, because US schools specialize is producing incompetent students with very high self-esteem.)  The trend is reversing, and both newly minted scientists and scientists established here in the US have been returning to their home counties, where they find the climate for doing science more favorable.  If this continues, the Googles, Apples and Microsofts of the future will be in China, Korea or various counties of the European Union, not here.

But, of course, what does that have to do with Beethoven?

RJR

Quote from: Mandryka on January 23, 2011, 09:30:16 PM
The french for execrable is exécrable.
Here's another one that you might like: deguelasse. It's worse than dégoutant.