Just for the most curious ones, this is how rhythms are taught to
french children :
quarter-note is called : noire (black) since it's balck
half-note is called : blanche (white) since it's white
full-note is called : ronde (round) since... there is no stem
eight-note is called : croche (crotchet / hook) since it have one beam
16th note is called : double-croche, guess why
easy isn't it ^^
except that you have to use lilypond and to convert mentally croche=8
so double-croche=16... O_o
Yota,
citizen of the pond
On 12/27/06, Christopher A. LaFond <address@hidden> wrote:
Anthony W. Youngman wrote:
Arghhh.... There is NO SUCH THING as "British English". It's
actually two
COMPLETELY SEPARATE languages that the Americans lump together!
The Saxons in England speak English. The Angles in Scotland speak
Scots (a
very *similar* language). The Scots (in Ireland :-) speak Gaelic.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Scots is a dialect of
English,
not a "similar" language. The language in Ireland, by the way, is
Irish, and
not generally referred to as "Gaelic" by anyone who knows better,
and the
Celtic language of Scotland is called by its native speakers
"Gaelic" (first
syllable pronounced "gal" -as in the feminine of "guy"). So though
they
don't identify "British English", they do identify "English
English" and
"Scots English", which most assume are more similar to one another
than they
are to "American English", or at the very least, having a more
mutually
intelligible vocabulary.
>From the OED:
Under "English"
c. English English, English as spoken in England as
differentiated from
that spoken, e.g., in the United States of America.
Under "Scots"
2. Of language: a. The distinguishing epithet of the dialect
of English
spoken by the inhabitants of the Lowlands of Scotland. Also absol.
as n.,
the Scottish dialect.
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