The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #112368   Message #2380808
Posted By: WalkaboutsVerse
04-Jul-08 - 05:50 AM
Thread Name: The Weekly Walkabout
Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
Given all that, I doubt the word-changing will happen again, thankfully.
"There have been times when I thought that maybe WAV was deliberately doing the stuff he does here just for laughs...in which case he probably wouldn't mind people making fun of it, but lately I'm not so sure if that is the case. It gets a little hard to figure out exactly what is going on here" (Little Hawk)...I admit to attempting some humour in my Blurb
("The style is mostly direct; and the substance informative, humorous and didactic"), but, basically, I'm someone GENUINELY heavily against our status quo, who is try to do something about it, in a shoestring.
To Don, I do read everything you post, and do agree with SOME of it. But reading your last few, you seem to think I'm stupid for not agreeing with you on everything; i.e., you're not just talking down, but talking a long-way down to someone who has achieved 4 tech. certificates and a Degree in Humanities.
To Foolestroupe: many in classical music still refer to the recorder as the English flute, and the transverse flute as the German flute (even though we will never know the "who?" or "where?" of their invention). And the penny whistle evolved, in England, from the English flageolette.