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Cerberus
Cerberus
12:44 AM
@Færd I don't think that is a problem?
When I'm talking about sleeping arrangements in Persia.
The context makes it as clear as necessary.
 
 
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Færd
Færd
2:34 AM
@Cerberus It's been Iran for more than a millennium. In English too, it's almost always called by that name. Persia (or as Iranian themselves would call it, Pars) carries a historic and/or glorified connotation that I wouldn't waste on run-of-the-mill, contemporary matters.
It's like penning down a petty memo in elaborate calligraphy using ink and a swan's feather.
But, of course, I'm not ruling out your preference as invalid.
And as for its clarity, what it used to refer to doesn't exist as a single country anymore; but I guess yeah, the context would make it clear as necessary.
 
Færd
Færd
3:04 AM
It's announcement and denunciation. Also the n is doubled in the former and not in the latter.
Annunciation and denouncement exist too, but are comparably rare.
(Oops. I meant comparatively.)
 
 
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Cerberus
Cerberus
10:55 PM
@Færd That is because announce is from ad-nuntio in Latin, which is also spelled annuntio.
The ou is from some phase of French.
 
tchrist
tchrist
Annunciation
The Annunciation (from the Vulgate Latin annuntiatio (or nuntiatio) nativitatis Christi), also referred to as the Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Annunciation of Our Lady or the Annunciation of the Lord, is the Christian celebration of the announcement by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary that she would conceive and become the mother of Jesus, the Son of God, marking his Incarnation. Gabriel told Mary to name her son Yehoshua , meaning "YHWH is salvation". According to Luke 1:26, the Annunciation occurred "in the sixth month" of Elizabeth's pregnancy with John the Baptist. Many...
> Nova nova, ave fit ex eva.
I like the Williametta Spencer arrangement of the old carol.
I’m trying to find a suitable con brio recording.
Ok here, this one moves along nicely enough and isn't too bad. The singers are more skilled, alas, than the recording tech.
@Færd So, it’s not so much that annunciation is rare but rather than it has an ecclesiastical overtone.
There are other interesting modern arrangements beyond Spencer’s alone. It is a song with a long history. Here’s another modern arrangement by another living composer, James MacMillan. It is possibly one that takes greater skill to do well than Spencer's may. This one is.
It has, hm, more excitement in the Mystery.
The original anonymous Christmas carol dates from the 15th century. Its mix of English and Latin comes from a day when to know Latin went hand in hand with being educated.
Oh, I see they've sirred MacMillan with a CBE. He’s a Scot.
The other, Williametta Spencer, is from Michigan, a Fullbright Scholar it seems, studying in Paris.
The MacMillan is usually SSA, the Spencer usually SATB.
Neither has need of any other instrument than the human voice.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
11:55 PM
Hello.
 
tchrist
tchrist
Evening. And now the long night begins.
 

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