Interesting quote

I'll quote you a price of $500 for that stale piece of bread!

Hmm, sounds like France! Where's the french toast? :w00t: :P

Alas, there's no official process of determining when/how words are added or change in the english language (unlike french in France). Traditionally, someone would "quote" an author (verb), or would refer to X "quotation" (noun).

So you would say "I'm going to read this quotation" rather than "I'm going to read this quote."

And I only mentioned it because of the high level musical conservatism in this thread - it was ironic to see you guys talking about the "superior" music of the 19th century as compared to modern music, but totally disregard traditional grammar for a very contemporary (and in many people's opinion, incorrect) use of the word quote.

first of all, since it IS in the dictionary as a noun, there's really no need to get all pedantic about its grammatical function.

secondly, the particular comment quoted was not made by anyone in this thread, but is part of the mission statement of this forum, apparently.

thirdly, this thread is VERY freaking old. talk about necro post.

Grammarians, please relax or else i will write according to the language of the King James Version of the Bible ...

As for the original quote Chopin needs to clarify it as it is incredibly misleading and misrepresents a large portion of the members of this site.

Now I can sum up in one old fashioned old adage the cycle of what becomes considered "great, classic" music:

Distance makes the heart grow fonder.

PS. One unfortunate consequence of mishandling the period performance practice philosophy is Hyperion's recording of the glut of 19th century piano concertos... I think the intentions are noble and a few gems have been found but to me this is a detrimental trend as it adds to the gigantic glut of recordings' of dead composers' works (I mean do we really need a recording of Kalkbrenner's Piano Concerto issued by a large, established commercial classical label such as Hyperion???).

Take it as you will, QC. I just found "fubar" and "funner" in the dictionary, but most people (even the spell-check on this forum) would agree that these are not words. Strangely, the word "gently caress" was nowhere to be found, yet this is indeed a word and has been for a very long time.

Who cares if this thread is old? You guys always jump on people when they start new threads similar to ones that already exist. Now you also jump on people when they bring back old threads instead of starting new ones?

Apparently, you do care, since you brought it up.

and people responded by letting you know that your "correction" was in fact erroneous.

As for this being an internet thing, I can assure you that I used a dictionary that has been sitting on my desk here for the last 20 years, and that was handed down to me by my father, to verify if in fact the word "quote" can be used as a noun as well.

I can assure you that this dictionary, dating from 1962, informs me that it can in fact be used as a noun, and that this is not some bastardized form of the word.

*eyeroll*

/me facepalms.

Alas, there's no official process of determining when/how words are added or change in the english language (unlike french in France). Traditionally, someone would "quote" an author (verb), or would refer to X "quotation" (noun).

So you would say "I'm going to read this quotation" rather than "I'm going to read this quote."

And I only mentioned it because of the high level musical conservatism in this thread - it was ironic to see you guys talking about the "superior" music of the 19th century as compared to modern music, but totally disregard traditional grammar for a very contemporary (and in many people's opinion, incorrect) use of the word quote.

What's the difference between "Incorrect" grammar that is widely used and "correct" grammar that is widely used? Timescale.

;D

History - how scraggy used to be.

That's why we all speak Latin, right?

Oh wait--

Oh ye whoeth seeketh to squabble! When wilt thy quill scribe musicks?

Oh ye whoeth seeketh to squabble! When wilt thy quill scribe musicks?

To be accurate, I believe it should read: "When wilst thy quill scribeth musicks?"

didnt mean to squabble, just noticed boleros was correcting my usage of english incorrectly..wasnt gonna remark at first.. but since others were going right along with...figured i must

This thread has passed into the realm of stupidity.

"Who is Young Composers

Young Composers focuses purely on the arts such as Classicalism, Romantisicm, Impressionism, Contemporary, and much much more. This site is growing by the day, and the main goal of the site is to promote music that had once flourished back in the days. Any trained musician knows very well that today's music cannot compare to the music of the 18th and 19th centuries.

We might have misunderstood what the author meant by today's music.