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#notation

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As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation.


Franz Liszt


#children #express #gypsy #her #how

And Hale was devoted to President Kennedy, and there was some talk following the assassination that Hale had warned the President not to go to Dallas, and the connotation was that it would be physically dangerous for him to do so.


Lindy Boggs


#connotation #dallas #dangerous #devoted #following

Diva has a negative connotation.


Glenn Close


#diva #negative

The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition.


Marilyn Hacker


#both #connotation #fascinating #gained #how

To speak about notation as the only way that you can guarantee structure of course is already very suspect.


Evan Parker


#already #course #guarantee #notation #only

I know many people on the left are suspicious of words like Americanization. To them, it can sound like a cover for white privilege and warmongering. It suggests arrogance and groupthink. But these connotations are not fixed. It is in our power to reshape them by recalling the best of America.


Eric Liu


#arrogance #best #connotations #cover #fixed

The supposed inferiority of a constructed language to a national one on the score of richness of connotation is, of course, no criticism of the idea of a constructed language.


Edward Sapir


#constructed #course #criticism #idea #inferiority

Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden's a great man in the sense that he's influenced the course of history.


Michael Scheuer


#bin #connotation #course #good #great

Sometimes I write them down in musical notation as a trigger to remind me about certain directions to go. Or I can be specific about a sound I'm looking for.


Harold Budd


#certain #directions #down #go #i

Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture.


Dario Fo


#connotations #culture #i #i see #ideology






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