Thanks Jim, and I will never write WHIPPEN again.! Actually, writing in English all these years has helped me tremendously!!!! YES!!!!! My very first bteacher here on ze list was Susan Kline, who patiently, e-mail after a-mail, tried to get me on the right track. It is also amazing to watch the improvements of our colleague Isaac Oleg in Paris and other non American techies who, like me, stumble and stutter, but nevertheless convey their message. <(::@)) = OINK! On 7-jan-04, at 22:31, JIMRPT@aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 07/01/04 4:19:02 PM, antares@euronet.nl writes: > > << bat, yu massent forket det vor oudsyders a kood lessun in Inkelish > > evvery nouw en den meens a lot. > > I wos dervor zenkful and ekspressed my tenks in an urly letter dis > > morning. > > Capisce? > >>> > > Yes, Master Andre, capisce. He had a point and I am sure that its > helpful for > those of us who happen too be grammattically challenged. It was really > the > comment re: wippens that set me off and I didn't want to pollute the > list with > piano related stuff........ > Journal article indeed!!...as if that was engraved on a rock > somewhere just > because some tech wrote an article whose *opinion* was 'wippen' rather > then > 'whippen'. The "Official" > (as official as anything gets in PTG) nomenclature book that Merle and > Newton > and Etc. put together declares that either spelling is correct with > wippen > being the most common......don madder though cause it gots fo odder > names for > them there thingees. :-) > little jimmy bryant, trp > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > > friendly greetings from André Oorebeek Amsterdam - The Netherlands 0031-20-6237357 0645-492389 0031-75-6226878 www.concertpianoservice.nl www.grandpiano.nl
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