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Prehaps of interest? An old collection of tunes for the violin, flute, and oboe, publ. 1724: https://www.itma.ie/shop/a-collection-of-the-most-celebrated-irish-tunes-proper-for-the-violin-german-flute-or-hautboy-john-william-neal-eds-facsimile-edition-by-nicholas-carolan?fbclid=IwAR1JzHx5hzBwYx5Rcn...

So via latin to french to english in my opinion. No, you can't ignore the Greek in this just because a dictionary - which is not infallible - does so out of what appears to be a parsimony of ink or keystrokes. The word is Greek; it has no Latin origin, but was borrowed into that language, so what w...

Which gives French the lead I think No, I don't think that "gives the French the lead" - not in terms of where the word comes from in English. It comes, ultimately, from the Greek, via Latin, with, in a minority of opinions, as far as one can tell, a small amount of influence from the Fre...

To me mon-urk and mon-urky work, but not so much mon-urkical which would be mon-arkical ? The word is latin derived and shared with french, the only way I found to guess influence was by ngram https://i.ibb.co/6RKhwkb/20221115-230003.jpg Which gives French the lead I think, as well as higher current...

I should not have used the "I" "you" in the example maybe, but that was meant informally as a question of where that would place moderation. It is a thorny topic, because it goes straight to the level of respect members might feel due, or inversely the sense of management the own...

As with another set of paintings posted earlier, I have the impression the flute player is the same person. Here is one more from Helmick https://www.adams.ie/catalogue_images_new//xlarge/40214-1_1.jpg https://www.adams.ie/95442/Howard-Helmick-1845-1907-Little-girl-dancing-to-old-gentleman-playing-a...

I think monarch is a strange word, very french and technical so it doesn't surprise me that a US presenter leans in pronunciation, even if it comes across as a guillotine shaped bite. I suppose using the word King is just too close to "The Scottish Play" for modern sensibilities, would cau...

When I look at art I always assume it as exageration because the artist will try to emphasize his perceptions. Some of this is quite amazing, such as how "brightness" appears out of a picture, somehow relating better than say a photograph. That doesn't mean that there is an agenda though. ...

In the US companies seem to have ultimate decision over content (that is legal) , in Germany "put-backs" occur beyond terms of service on the grounds of "constitutional guarantee" (whatever that is decided to be, in our hypothetical case a take-down being challenged as a "de...

I don't know what meta moderating is . What I do know is how gag laws worked in Spain, how aggregating news or sharing clips was ended there, "right to be forgotten" enforced. I also know enough of the atmosphere online in northern europe and how far laws go there in managing discourse on ...

Maybe I should have gone a bit further inland, or west in Australia . For me it is Mediterranean scrub in high summer with a permanent heat, sea in the distance, Africa on the horizon. Or endless olives on chalk soil, open pine forests for shade. I suppose if you spend long enough anywhere it become...

That's a great picture . I expect there were different cabins and cottages of sorts, but I've explored a lot of ruins etc. from 19th century in Spain and that does not look any the less...just remembering one article I read of a family of 15 in Spain raised in a 20m2 cane hut early 20th century, had...

What made me think of that was from https://www.bagpipesociety.org.uk/articles/2018/chanter/autumn/slow-boat-to-lithuania/ long read, but in essence both flutes and presumably swedish pipe chanters were tuned by scalloping the tonehole. Afterwards it came to mind that taping will just look like a la...

It can be said that up to now this conversation has been about what happens in semi-automated systems, and that the details surrounding certain events are what got this conversation going. I don't think there's any question that contributors to this thread are of a like mind about those details, an...

I found the US ok, mostly for what it wasn't as a country than what it was as one. This was a while back but I remember there being a sort of paranoia to society also , that was California and crossing into Mexico felt more familiar, having lived in Spain much. BC in Canada was all I visited to the ...