Jay, You're absolutely right - It's Db (in F) Thanks for having a stab there too Roger. You're idea was much more sensible than my original diminished chord...
You are absolutely right, the ISB is not Folk, its beyond Folk, beyond easy definition. A quick examination of the available covers which John et al have made...
In message <BAY9-F53UgwooIymKce0000fc2e@...> ... Certainly does. Little Girl, for instance; lovely chord structure. Best, Chris -- *** Chris & Lee's...
... listened ... still ... I'm sorry Jimmy but you can't just come out and say that everyone on this list is an out and out folky! That's as bad as saying...
... Well, I don't know, Paul. Could be. Sounds reasonable. But then, Ah'm not shore Ah hoid ya'll quite rightly.... Seriously, I think you may be right, but to...
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Aug 2, 2004 2:20 am
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... to ... renditions ... Cheers Keith. I agree with everything you say. Jay has this thing going that is not the whimsical majesty of Robbo and Micko, but...
... I tried that too but didn't let it run for that long! The first track won't play on a normal audio player here either, the player just clunks away and trys...
... Thanks Ernie, I think you put your finger on it. If you're from a community which always talks in a particular way, your ears are not accustomed to hearing...
... My guess would be that it depends what you say about them. Today's received wisdom (in the UK, at least) still appears to be that we should celebrate our...
In a message dated 8/2/2004 6:58:51 AM Eastern Standard Time, ... I think that's it, Paul, for most anyone. But some people seem to have a greater capacity and...
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Aug 2, 2004 1:26 pm
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... to ... track ... clunks ... to the ... least ... fan, ... good ... compliment, ... time, ... element of ... this'. ... the ... hit a ... but a ... also ......
... Thanks for these John, hope you're enjoying your holiday (before anyone comments, yes I know John won't read this till he gets back!) Now, Shane, where is...
... This is a fascinating difference between the US of A and the UK: England is about the size of Geogia (< 60,000 sq miles), while the US is well over 3 ...
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Aug 2, 2004 2:00 pm
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... Hi Phil (and Alick who asked the same off list). It's in the 'ISB Covers.txt' file that I put in the file section of the group the other day. At the end...
... Speaking of American pronunciation as a whole, not just Boston, it's always struck me as curious that you would turn t sounds in the middle of words into d...
... Phil (and Alick who asked the same off list). It's in the 'ISB ... other ... Cheers Shane - quick note, I think it's Derek Brimstone, not Dave. ...
... New Celeste was Fare ye Well Sweet Mally. I used to work for Iona Records and found this to be one of the most sh1te albums on the roster enlivened ever so...
... Yep, we do. (At least I do - I just said both words out loud). Confusion aside, if we pronounced those T's we'd sound - well, just like you guys. We also...
... Good question, but you don't hear that in Boston (or Maine). Here, we have writahs and mattah, not writers and matter nor riders and madder. I don't think...
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Aug 2, 2004 4:26 pm
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... Yes, however do you folks get "left" out of "lieu"? (I guess the same way that most of the US gets "ant" out of "aunt", but at least we don't have insects ...
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Aug 2, 2004 4:37 pm
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Have we lost the original question here? If memory serves, it was whether people with "strong" accents have trouble understanding other accents, (presumably...
... Not at all; the original question was addressed, for the time being only I suspect, to Paul's satisfaction (he who asked the original half-remarkable ...
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Aug 2, 2004 6:10 pm
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... There are two theories, which we may call the centrifugal and the centripuntal (gee, I think that's the right word). In the centrifugal theory, a language ...
... I think you're referring to the centrifugal and centripetal forces in language, as defined by Bakhtin. In this sense, centripetal forces tend to render ...
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Aug 2, 2004 7:37 pm
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... petal, that's it. Not puntal, petal. I knew what I meant. pb ps - Georgia (age 7) said yesterday "that African country that sounds like a bird". After much...
Do regional phrases count as part of an accent? "Down the shore" in Philly or, in Pittsburgh, "My room needs cleaned" or the Bostonian "Wicked", things like...
They count as idioms, or idomatic expressions of a given dialect, but not as accents: that's how they are pronounced, not the phrasing used. Though sometimes...
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Aug 2, 2004 9:29 pm
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... "Got to my mickey, found me way up the apples, put on me whistle and the bloody dog went. It was me trouble telling me to fetch the teapots." Ernie, please...
