Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:33:24 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: "Kevin Kinsey" <kdk@daleco.biz> Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, Redd Vinylene <reddvinylene@gmail.com>, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Chat <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: I can't make world without the "games" group? Message-ID: <d7195cff0808270833x4ea50c91g6dcf13888c43909@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <48B54F6E.10900@daleco.biz> References: <f1019d520808010831s39c803fan9a35fcd17f010fc5@mail.gmail.com> <87abf487wg.fsf@kobe.laptop> <f1019d520808260201o27009529v43aa7ae8c35d7304@mail.gmail.com> <87abezx5yr.fsf@kobe.laptop> <f1019d520808260829h3a16825fx6eb6b2d713051aaf@mail.gmail.com> <48B4A959.7050700@daleco.biz> <86vdxm7qsy.fsf@ds4.des.no> <48B54F6E.10900@daleco.biz>
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2008/8/27 Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz>: > Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: >> >> Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> writes: >>> >>> But FreeBSD might not be a car[1]. Maybe it's a piano. And a piano >>> that can play just as beautifully, in tune, and even loudly (and yes, >>> that was the pianoforte's strong point in 1709) as any modern piano, >> >> Quite the opposite, the pianoforte's forte was its ability to play >> piano. >> >> DES > > Well, I suppose that it could play any dynamics at all. Clavs > and harpsichords weren't so good at it, but, also, if you banged > them as hard as some of the Romantics did, you'd have knocked them > to bits. > > So, you're correct, in 1709, it was probably "piano" that was > noticeable, but by 1860, maybe the other way'round? At any rate, thanks > for an excellent contribution to the thread, and a wonderful example > of the complexities of the English language (gotta love reading that > one out "forte" seven times quickly) :-) > I like the (unintentional, perhaps) pun with "strong point". http://www.wordreference.com/iten/forte http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=3Dforte --=20 --
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