English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

Johan Larsson

12:01 AM

Never seen it before

Liked it

Or maybe it is just that I dislike "this" style for some reason.

Reminds me about air quotes.

Cerberus

Heh.

Johan Larsson

*reminds me of

tchrist

12:21 AM

@Cerb Do you know the Hosta genus? It’s a common outdoor plant in the Liliaceae family.

I ask because of the hasta comment to Lawler. :)

Well, I thought it was in the lily family.

> The genus is currently placed in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Agavoideae, and is native to northeast Asia (China, Japan, Korea, and the Russian Far East). Like many "lilioid monocots", the genus was once classified in the Liliaceae.

Blah.

Can’t keep track of the players without a score card.

Hosta

Hosta (/ˈhɒstə/, syn. Funkia) is a genus of plants commonly known as hostas, plantain lilies (particularly in Britain) and occasionally by the Japanese name giboshi. Hostas are widely cultivated as shade-tolerant foliage plants. The genus is currently placed in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Agavoideae, and is native to northeast Asia (China, Japan, Korea, and the Russian Far East). Like many "lilioid monocots", the genus was once classified in the Liliaceae. The name Hosta is in honor of the Austrian botanist Nicholas Thomas Host. The rejected generic name Funkia, also used as a common name...

Glad they didn’t pick the funky genus.

Cerberus

@tchrist Yes.

My mother's favourite part of the garden when I was a little boy was the border where she had her hostae.

Guess what I did...

tchrist

I shudder to imagine.

The Dutchish page is much shorterish.

I hope you are going to tell me you dutifully weeded those beds.

Cerberus

When my mother was nearby, I let myself fall backwards into the hostae with my entire little body, laughing and looking at her.

tchrist

shudders

Cerberus

All I knew was that it wasn't allowed, so the attraction became irristible.

tchrist

12:27 AM

I’m the opposite type, you realize.

Cerberus

I was 5 or so.

Johan Larsson

@tchrist michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/08/26/xwp-vs-jap

user116848

What's a hostae?

Cerberus

Near that same age, I also draw large purple shapes on the white plastered walls with a crayon.

tchrist

@Farooq What are hostae? or What is a hosta?

Cerberus

12:28 AM

And with a permanent marker on all volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, across the entire shelf. They were bound in white leather.

tchrist

@Cerberus Have you brethren?

Cerberus

One.

tchrist

Your elder, I presume.

Cerberus

But I soon grew out of that phase and became a good boy.

Younger.

Why?

user116848

@tchrist Oh, I see. I looked it up.

Cerberus

12:29 AM

Je suis l'aîné.

tchrist

Odd. The eldest child in a close set is usually the best behaved and highest achieving.

user116848

I was searching the plural form.

Cerberus

Well, I usually was just that.

But many children have a difficult phase.

tchrist

thinks

Cerberus

Perhaps it was because I wanted my attention back that my brother had recently stolen from me by being born.

tchrist

12:30 AM

Oh, five-year delta?

Cerberus

Three and a half.

But it probably took some time to get over.

Whither go your patterns now?

tchrist

I don’t believe I was ever a difficult child towards adults, let alone my parents — and that I was ever such to my “peers”.

But I shall enquire.

Those are opponent senses of ever. Or something like that.

I am now often difficult towards everyone except the very young and the very old.

By which I mean anyone older than myself.

Mitch

Anyone older than myself is old. Any one younger... Holy shit they allow them to vote?

tchrist

It’s not the voting part that bothers me.

It’s the driving part.

Cerberus

@tchrist How so?

tchrist

12:41 AM

@Cerberus The first one would be jamais, the second toujours.

Cerberus

Are you sure your sentence is structured correctly, then?

tchrist

Of course not.

I afterthunk it.

Cerberus

> I don't believe that...and I don't believe that I was ever difficult to my peers.

tchrist

Yes, I know.

> I believe that I was never

Cerberus

Where does that go?

tchrist

12:43 AM

I believe I was never a difficult child towards adults, let alone my parents — and that I was ever such to my “peers”.

Cerberus

Better.

tchrist

That’s why I mentioned it. I switched directions midcourse.

Cerberus

I half suspected something like that, but the problem is that the sentence would still work if we supposed you hadn't switched—but it would have the wrong meaning.

tchrist

Quite.

Cerberus

Fowler would say, quite so.

tchrist

12:46 AM

So?

Cerberus

QED.

Oops, someone might catch us actually discussing English. Quick, change the subject.

user116848

I'll change it :-)

user116848

So I used to talk very freely here. These days I can't seem to do it.

user116848

I don't know why?

Johan Larsson

in Lounge<C++> on Stack Overflow Chat, 1 min ago, by рытфолд

useful useless machine

user116848

12:50 AM

Funny!

Johan Larsson

@Farooq Tala är silver. Tiga är guld.

user116848

Oh, nice saying!

Johan Larsson

Speech is silver, silence is golden.

Googled it, looks like it exists in English.

user116848

Yeah, I know. I Google translated it :-)

tchrist

room topic changed to English Language & Usage: Oops, someone might catch us actually discussing English. Quick, change the subject. [french] [fruits] [hostae] [nuts]

Johan Larsson

12:53 AM

How long will the title survive?

tchrist

Till somebody wants to change the subject again.

Johan Larsson

yes double half that time.

Cerberus

Better.

Johan Larsson

@tchrist did you read the article?

Cerberus

@JohanLarsson Funny.

Is it Dutch?

The site is Dutch.

Johan Larsson

1:01 AM

dunno

tchrist

@JohanLarsson I was attending to matters janitorial.

Johan Larsson

does it mean that he read it?

tchrist

I see no article.

Johan Larsson

37 mins ago, by Johan Larsson

@tchrist https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/08/26/xwp-vs-jap/

tchrist

No, I was finishing up a commit.

I shall endeavour to do so now.

Johan Larsson

1:06 AM

you go extra fancy when addressing me right?

tchrist

You I treat little differently than any other.

@JohanLarsson Depressingly accurate.

Johan Larsson

Yeah. I thought you would agree with it.

Probably decent advice in the end also.

tchrist

$job[-2] was a Java-invested hellhole full of bad code.

$job[-1] was full of utter subcontinental idiots who should not have been allowed to program, plus a few local competent people.

$job[0] has no one who is not a star programmer. It is humbling.

Johan Larsson

nice

A Beautiful Mind

Subcontinental idiots?

Sounds a bit extreme, lol.

tchrist

1:19 AM

Hindi.

They were idiots from the subcontinent who should not have been allowed to program.

They were paid like a tenth to a fifteenth what we were paid.

But they cost us a great deal of time and money.

I am not being racist. It was policy to pay only in the bottom quartile. I know plenty of good people from there. We were not allowed to hire them, because we could not offer them the pay rates they would have demanded.

A Beautiful Mind

It's the company's fault for hiring them then.

tchrist

That is correct.

Upper management became addicted to the negligible pay rates.

They didn't understand what a horrible position those idiots kept putting those of us who weren't idiots in.

A Beautiful Mind

Well, upper management are usually idiots.

tchrist

Not where I work now.

A Beautiful Mind

There are idiots all over the world, but especially in Antarctica.

In Antarctica, it is easy for idiots to get high qualifications, so they think they are very smart.

tchrist

1:24 AM

It’s not reasonable to say that X is idiotic because idiots are associated with it. Idiots are associated with everything.

People are idiots

Yes, like Mitch.

Hey!

unlike Mitch

No U!

Wait... What are we talking about?

user116848

1:29 AM

It is early morning here and I am still awake. Just lurking.

Mitch

Just want me hope or at the way other end?

A Beautiful Mind

I am very sad. I wonder when I will be well.

Mitch

@johan I read 'unlike' as a verb

user116848

@ABeautifulMind Get well. Okay, I am not helping by saying that.

user116848

j/k

user116848

1:33 AM

A little bit of blogging here in chat about our daily lives seems like a good idea.

A Beautiful Mind

I hope there will be some miracles in my life soon.

Johan Larsson

@Mitch I meant it in the best way.

user116848

Urban dictionary has a funny definition for "j/k":

user116848

> Just kidding. Used at the end of a sentence to make it completely void, therefore contributing nothing to the conversation and wasting everyone's time.

Mitch

Haha I get it now

Jk

tchrist

1:38 AM

When someone says just kidding, you can be assured that they were doing nothing of the sort.

A Beautiful Mind

I am very sad. I think I will go to bed soon.

tchrist

Go to bed at the same time every day. Get ~8h sleep each night.

user116848

@ABeautifulMind Rest well!

A Beautiful Mind

I usually talk to myself for about 10 minutes before sleeping.

Mitch

Tchrist, exactly.

Like "I am. It a crook"

A Beautiful Mind

1:39 AM

@tchrist For me now, it is still intermittent.

user116848

I sometimes talk in the mirror.

Mitch

Or "some of my best friends are...."

Wait...what if i am one of those best friends.

Does it talk back?

user116848

No, it doesn't apparently.

A Beautiful Mind

Too bad Kit is not here. She always says something nice to me, to make me feel better.

user116848

Some people say talking in the mirror increases charisma. It looks weird.

A Beautiful Mind

1:41 AM

You should just talk, no need for the mirror.

user116848

And if someone catches you they think you are nuts :-)

1:53 AM

@tchrist Google?

3:57 AM

This posting does not improve the quality of our site, and I strongly suspect that the username is intended to offend as well. Please Do The Right Thing™.

Hanaa

7:11 AM

Hi

SmokeDetector

7:42 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Person who pretends to not understand unless one speaks in exactly the words they expect by Raven on english.stackexchange.com

Robusto

1:05 PM

Chrome Version 40.0.2214.93 m
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Internet Explorer Version 11.0.9600.17501

The surprising winner of the SunSpider challenge.

I mean, by far.

Ah, here's a better result for Chrome:

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I turned off AdBlock Plus. Seems it was interfering with the JavaScript somehow.

Still, IE is looking ~2x faster than Chrome or Firefox.

Johan Larsson

IE!

Robusto

inorite

Johan Larsson

michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/08/26/xwp-vs-jap

Dunno if you are interested in ^

Robusto

1:21 PM

Interesting.

Johan Larsson

Nice mix of humor & truth in that one.

A Beautiful Mind

Hehe, my stars have been removed again.

Johan Larsson

what was it?

A Beautiful Mind

Just some things that only I would star, so the norm is to remove these after one day, since they only get one star.

Johan Larsson

do you have a coping strategy?

A Beautiful Mind

1:24 PM

For what?

Johan Larsson

For when stars are removed. :)

A Beautiful Mind

I have no problems with it. It's not an issue.

I just thought I would mention it because it happened again. And I like to mention trivia all the time.

Johan Larsson

Chat is a good fit for trivia.

A Beautiful Mind

@JohanLarsson If you talk about my coping strategies for my mental problems, I do have them, but still, they are overwhelming, which is why I am still so sick.

Johan Larsson

I just meant the stars.

A Beautiful Mind

1:27 PM

That requires no coping at all.

@JohanLarsson I see you use American spelling.

Johan Larsson

i can't tell them apart but I would prefer BrE.

but i don't spel much.

A Beautiful Mind

Humour vs humor.

Johan Larsson

ah

A Beautiful Mind

However, it's always humorous.

There is no humourus.

Johan Larsson

good thing Chrome has a spellchecker

A Beautiful Mind

1:32 PM

I turn off all spellchecks. Always check a good dictionary. Stay away from Wiktionary too.

infinitesimal

Don't worry pal, I will say a lot more encouraging things for you to star :-)

Robusto

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A Beautiful Mind

@infinitesimal I hope that when the time comes, I will be able to open all those doors.

@Robusto The title is depressing.

Robusto

The refrain is more buoyant.

Light a candle up to kingdom come
Make a welcome for the chosen one

A Beautiful Mind

There are actually a number of depressed folks in the math room as well.

But I would say I am the most pathetic of them all.

infinitesimal

1:37 PM

why "pathetic"?

A Beautiful Mind

At least they are able to function in daily life.

infinitesimal

Be thankful for what you have.

terdon

@ABeautifulMind That doesn't make you pathetic. It just means that you have harder problems to solve. I can function in daily life too but that's only because I don't need to wrestle with the kinds of issues you have. Nothing pathetic about you, quite the contrary, You are fighting a hard battle and that is something to be proud of.

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Robusto

If you stop being so meta maybe you could get on with the business of getting better.

A Beautiful Mind

@Robusto Now I need to look up meta and nob.

Robusto

1:40 PM

"Nob" was a typo. Stray characters.

A Beautiful Mind

You never know, there are all kinds of strange short words.

Well, actually I think I do know the meaning of meta, and I think I roughly know what you mean.

Johan Larsson

@ABeautiful I starred Robs message. Think of it like this: Everyone has issues, the level just varies between persons and over time.

Focus on upping the level a little all the time.

A Beautiful Mind

Recently my ears are popping and I feel like vomiting again.

Robusto

@ABeautifulMind Meta means talking about the problem rather than finding a solution.

A Beautiful Mind

Too much anxiety.

@Robusto Yes, that's roughly how I read it.

Robusto

1:44 PM

Computer restart. brb.

infinitesimal

Like I said @ABeautifulMind there are people in a lot worse condition than any of us here.

Johan Larsson

Anti-pragmatism is a synonym then.

A Beautiful Mind

@infinitesimal Yes, though that actually doesn't help to know sometimes. =)

Johan Larsson

Leave that to managers imo.

infinitesimal

@ABeautifulMind it will help if you think about it a lot.

A Beautiful Mind

1:47 PM

@infinitesimal OK.

infinitesimal

I mean think deeply about it in your own personal way.

tchrist

Rule #1: Don’t let yourself get trapped somewhere you can’t get out of.
Rule #2: Don’t look into the mirror.
Rule #3: Don’t stare at your hand.

A Beautiful Mind

@tchrist Is this a horror movie?

tchrist

Only if you forget the rules.

A Beautiful Mind

That was totally random.

tchrist

1:53 PM

No, it was en pointe.

A Beautiful Mind

Oh, I think I get it now.

Robusto

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tchrist

Although I reckon that now only @Robusto remembers the situation for which those rules were first devised, they have more general applicability than that one alone. In particular, they apply to you, Jasper.

Robusto

room topic changed to English Language & Usage: Every day, in every way, we strive to be a little less meta (no tags)

A Beautiful Mind

Everything in this chat can be read so many ways.

tchrist

1:56 PM

Starting with Ken Kesey.

Robusto

Just because something can be read a certain way doesn't mean it is that way.

A Beautiful Mind

Rule 1 should be: Don't stand near the window.

infinitesimal

Are you looking for sympathy @ABeautifulMind honestly?

Johan Larsson

@ABeautifulMind When I find ambiguity like that I usually read it the best way.

tchrist

@ABeautifulMind No, that conflicts with Rule 1.

A Beautiful Mind

1:57 PM

@infinitesimal Me? No. I just like to talk. I think I just want to express my pain.

Robusto

The naked light bulb in the room shines out this message: life is a do-it-yourself kit. You can get help with it, but unless you take responsibility for it and drive it yourself you will never get anywhere.

tchrist

@ABeautifulMind Facta, non verba.

infinitesimal

How about empathy? @ABeautifulMind

Johan Larsson

@ABeautifulMind Can we make a deal? Every time you express pain you match it with something that you have done or will do to make it a little better?

tchrist

Probably only ECT will now help.

Mitch

2:00 PM

Shit...I'm staring at my hand.

infinitesimal

Lol

tchrist

@Mitch You were warned.

Mitch

Whew...you'll be glad to know I can type with my other

tchrist

Where ECT = Extended Cognitive Therapy, not Electro-Convulsive Therapy!

A Beautiful Mind

@JohanLarsson I do do things to make myself better every day. I just don't write everything I do in this chat. Actually, maybe I should not talk about my problems in this chat, because only one or two people in this chat understand me. So yeah, maybe I should not express my pain in this chat anymore.

Robusto

2:02 PM

@Mitch Or do other, er, things with it.

tchrist

@Mitch Are you sure the other one is yours?

Mitch

But while not liking at the keyboard, accuracy goes down

tchrist

Scales help.

Robusto

Scales and arpeggios.

Johan Larsson

@ABeautifulMind i did not mean it aggressive like that. Just that I would be interested in hearing about strategies for progress.

A Beautiful Mind

2:03 PM

@JohanLarsson OK. I don't mean you are aggressive, don't worry.

infinitesimal

Good point @JohanLarsson

Mitch

Scales and fins

Johan Larsson

There is also a risk in getting addicted to sympathy I think. Come here for a fix of warm & fuzzy.

Mitch

Come here for a fix of what the fuck

Johan Larsson

But I'm not a doctor.

GF is a pro though.

infinitesimal

2:05 PM

Then you become drama queen :D

A Beautiful Mind

OK, I think I won't talk about my problems in this chat anymore. I will try to remember that.

tchrist

Jasper, the reason I suggested ECT is because it seems that your own worst enemy is your very own cognitive patterns, and therefore you must be led on up out from those overly well-worn tracks deep in the valley of the shadow of death through serious cognitive work. Pharmaceutical intervention can therefore be of but limited use, mostly palliative not curative. And don’t stare in the mirror.

Johan Larsson

@infinitesimal It can hurt progress I think.

infinitesimal

True^

tchrist

@ABeautifulMind That’s the second step. The first is to stop talking to yourself about them. We are what we think we are.

You’re having a bad trip without a tour guide.

A competent cognitive therapist can be that guide.

Robusto

2:09 PM

Fuck. The forecast for Monday went from 5-8" of snow to 8-12" to 12+" over the last few hours.

tchrist

There is no magic pill: Labor omnia vincit but also Per aspera ad astra.

infinitesimal

:O

Mitch

Snow. Goddammit

I took a magic pill once

Robusto

Winter has us in its jaws and is shaking us the way a terrier shakes a rat.

tchrist

@Robusto The radio just mentioned that we expect "a light dusting of snow" — which they said would perhaps be three inches. Impact is relative; in Portland (OR) or Seattle, three inches would have them calling out the National Guard. Here, it’s called a dusting.

Mitch

2:11 PM

Hey! That sounds like a good marketing opportunity, naming the next new medication "the magic pill"

tchrist

@Mitch So much for going to bed at the same time each day.

Mitch

It'll come in red and also blue

tchrist

Dont’t forget the White one for the eponymous Rabbit.

Mitch

"Dreaming or awake, it takes the cake"

Ok needs work

Robusto

@tchrist Well, in Atlanta three inches would be a weather emergency as well.

tchrist

2:13 PM

Because they’re idiots.

Mitch

Something about Alice's cake

Robusto

Even apart from snow.

Some are.

People are idiots

I'm an idiot.

2:14 PM

13 hours ago, by tchrist

It’s not reasonable to say that X is idiotic because idiots are associated with it. Idiots are associated with everything.

Mitch

You can type pretty well

So you have that going for you.

Robusto

@tchrist You think cars aren't evil? Well, Hitler rode around in a car. Think about that next time you go for a drive.

tchrist

@Mitch Most people can; it’s an easy pair of words.

Mitch

Tchrist...good one

infinitesimal

He wanted encouragement and I called him a drama queen :(

Mitch

2:17 PM

But cars are evil. They stare you down. I lose every time. I'm winning with my hand though. It's starting to waver

Robusto

Reductio ad Hitlerum

Reductio ad Hitlerum, also argumentum ad Hitlerum (Latin for "reduction to Hitler", which Hitlerum serving as a Latinized form of Hitler's name), is a term coined by philosopher Leo Strauss in 1951. According to Strauss, the Reductio ad Hitlerum is a humorous observation where someone compares an opponent's views with those that would be held by Adolf Hitler or the Nazi Party. According to Strauss, Reductio ad Hitlerum is a form of ad hominem or ad misericordiam, a fallacy of irrelevance, in which a conclusion is suggested based solely on something's or someone's origin rather than its current...

tchrist

@infinitesimal Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them?

Mitch

I can't read Latin....what could that possibly say?

I called him a drama queen but an Über came instead

Robusto

That was @tchrist's joke.

Mitch

There....pun executed

Robusto

2:20 PM

Just a bit more occulted than yours.

tchrist

@Mitch Sicut scriptum est quia non est iustus quisquam non est intellegens non est requirens.

Mitch

I was just building on his fine work

infinitesimal

He's in a lot of pain.

Pain weakens your very soul.

Nobody knows how bad it feels.

tchrist

The crucible of life, like a refiner’s fire, burns away the dross to leave only the precious heart.

Mitch

Bbl.... gotta shovel the roof

Robusto

2:22 PM

@infinitesimal Bullshit. Everyone has pain. We all know how it feels.

infinitesimal

Can you feel my pain?

Robusto

Not in the same way you do.

infinitesimal

Exactly.

Robusto

But it's not my job to feel your pain in the same way you do.

tchrist

If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were Donne quickly:

> No man is an island,
Entire of itself,
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thy friend's
Or of thine own were:
Any man's death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind,
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee.

Robusto

2:27 PM

> I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die. So let me live my life the way I want to. — Jimi Hendrix

tchrist

> At the round earth's imagin'd corners, blow
Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise
From death, you numberless infinities
Of souls, and to your scatter'd bodies go;
All whom the flood did, and fire shall o'erthrow,
All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies,
Despair, law, chance hath slain, and you whose eyes
Shall behold God and never taste death's woe.
But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space,
For if above all these my sins abound,
'Tis late to ask abundance of thy grace
When we are there; here on this lowly ground

Come my friends, ’tis not too late to seek a newer world.

Robusto

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tchrist

Jasper, this one’s for you:

> It little profits that an idle king,
By this still hearth, among these barren crags,
Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.
I cannot rest from travel; I will drink
Life to the lees. All times I have enjoyed
Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those
That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when
Through scudding drifts the rainy Hyades
Vext the dim sea. I am become a name;
For always roaming with a hungry heart

Which one was the ST:TNG episode in which Stewart comes to know a female companion who teaches him to play a recorder and they improvise together?

Flute.

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Robusto

There is that in me—I do not know what it is—but I know it is in me.

Wrench’d and sweaty—calm and cool then my body becomes,
I sleep—I sleep long.

I do not know it—it is without name—it is a word unsaid,
It is not in any dictionary, utterance, symbol.

Something it swings on more than the earth I swing on,
To it the creation is the friend whose embracing awakes me.

Perhaps I might tell more. Outlines! I plead for my brothers and sisters.

Do you see O my brothers and sisters?
It is not chaos or death—it is form, union, plan—it is eternal life—it is Happiness.

crl

is "dope", "doping" from the same root as dopamine

tchrist

2:40 PM

@crl No.

Robusto

> 1807, American English, "sauce, gravy, thick liquid," from Dutch doop "thick dipping sauce," from doopen "to dip" (see dip (v.)). Extension to "drug" is 1889, from practice of smoking semi-liquid opium preparation. Meaning "foolish, stupid person" is older (1851) and may have a sense of "thick-headed." Sense of "inside information" (1901) may come from knowing before the race which horse had been drugged to influence performance. Dope-fiend is attested from 1896.

Etymonline ^

infinitesimal

@ABeautifulMind

crl

ok

A Beautiful Mind

@infinitesimal Thanks, but I think only Kit and Matt understand me, so I won't say too much from now in this chat.

tchrist

@Robust Do you have any opinion on Robert Schultz?

Robusto

2:44 PM

@tchrist Nein, den kenne ich nicht.

tchrist

Pianist. Composer. Arranger.

Robusto

We haven't crossed paths.

tchrist

He has a “grand” arrangement of the overplayed PB Canon in D, one you need a full keyboard to play. But here is a nice demonstration of his original work played by the man himself:

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Robusto

@tchrist As if one needed another version of the Pachelbel.

tchrist

That’s what I’ve always thought — consider George Winston’s from December — but Schultz’s arrangement is far more satisfying to play than most; I do so with only a few minor improvisations. Alas there are no Youtube versions to show which capture his arrangement well; everyone you can find there plays it too loudly, choppily, quickly, artlessly — mostly kids trying too hard and being unnatural/unmusical. I wish I could see him play it himself.

Robusto

2:55 PM

A bit impressionistic, yes? Influenced by Debussy (I hear whole-tone scales) and Ravel. I think his performance of his own work is a bit blocky. Maybe he doesn't want to go for "shimmering" but that's what the wash of chords suggests to me. It might do with a lighter touch.

He's definitely channeling Le Tombeau de Couperin in places.

tchrist

Yes, what he’ playing in the video has a Debussy feel to me, but as you say, less pastiche and dreamy.

Oh, it looks like he has several transcriptions for different skill levels. You don’t want but the most interesting one.

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