Discussion

[problematika]

P is 14 months old today, adjusted age 11. If I'm off fieldworking even for an hour, I miss him as if I were a walking cliche. Tonight over stuffed squid, we continued our discussion of bio or no biokid in a rather large and heavy installment. Of course, virutally no discussion is too heavy for our brand of humor

Comments

[lunar_rainbow]

My own opinion, and I know Luludi's too...adoption is a very honorable thing. In the town where I'm staying there are a lot of adults who have decided not to have their own children and they are very happy and live successful lives. Some do adopt, some stay childless.

It's the "tuneless 4th- and 5th-grade singing" thing that gets me.

[problematika]

Gets to you, as in, you think it's cruel of me? :-) Or what?

[lunar_rainbow]

I get annoyed when people sing out of tune. Usually I just laugh it off. It's not cruel unless you are forcing people to listen to it. TORTURE! ;-)

Solfeggio is the first language I ever learned. We had to learn it by accurate pitch.

Here you go:

[lunar_rainbow]

This is what I mean :-)

LOL

[lunar_rainbow]

Or here, lol

Re: LOL

[problematika]

I like the pronunciation guide (JIP-see skale), hehe.

Blue Scale

[lunar_rainbow]

That blues scale gets me, lol. They should have used an electric guitar to illustrate the quarter tones, bending the string. I know pianists double notes like that to approximate quarter tones, but in this kind of example they should have used true quarter tones, cuz approximations aren't the real thing!

I wish they had gone into the Arabic scales and more of the eastern modes. (They would have had to use an ud or something.) The web site is a nice idea, but they could have taken it further.