Re: Interesting Words

On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, William Annis wrote:

>  >From: Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...>
>  >
>  >How exactly is that word "pho" pronounced?
>
>         I've always heard it pronounced "fU" (is there a standard
> bracketing to indicate SAMPA coding?), but I understand there are
> dialectal differences in pronunciation.
I generally use [..].

>
>         A friend of mine, Eric, is also a fan of Vietnamese food, and
> when he was visiting a friend in California, they went to a Vietnamese
> restaurant.  His friend was upset that Eric knew how to pronounc pho
> mostly correctly.  She felt no one from Wisconsin should be able to do
> that.  :)
Hehe =)

>
>  >>         * electronic music (a lot of timbre terms)
>  >
>  >Stockhausen fan?
>
>         Well, of some of his music sometimes.  He himself is a
> world-class jerk.
Yes, that's what I've heard too. Though some of his theories are
interesting.

>
>  >>         I make and listen to a lot of electronic music, so things
>  >> like, achurnaure n. "near timbre," which refers to ambient,
>  >> non-musical sounds embedded within a musical texture, is very useful
>  >> to me.
>  >
>  >This is cool too. I know I'll have to come up with a lot of words too. I
>  >know Nyenya'a music is dodecaphonic and quintshifting. Generally you will
>  >find, in a native Nyenya'a musical piece, 12 triplets, based on the 12
>  >different notes, each one once, before the 12 triplets are shifted up,
>  >then back to root, then down, then back to root again.
>
>         Like hungarian folk music?  That was the only reference I
> could find the quint-shifting.  Do you have any good URLs on this.
>
Like Hungarian, but also Mari, Tatar, Mansi and other Central Asian (many
Uralic) cultures. I haven't any URL's but I do have a couple excellent
books on the subject, but they are in Hungarian. When I find some time, I
can scan some of the "kotta" (that's the Hungarian word...simple words
that I can't translate. Kotta means sheet music, or the notation on the
staves...), in other words the melodies, if you want.

---frank