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Re: the secret to instrumental musical success

Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2019 8:47 pm
by Matt Walters
Play good.
Oh Joe....
The grammar police are coming to get you.

Re: the secret to instrumental musical success

Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2019 11:19 pm
by mazyckpaul
I won't let you down.

Re: the secret to instrumental musical success

Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2019 12:11 am
by windshieldbug
Matt Walters wrote:
Play good.
Oh Joe....
The grammar police are coming to get you.

Play gooder!

Re: the secret to instrumental musical success

Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2019 1:05 am
by oleirgens
bloke wrote:Play good.
Yes, Obi-Wan, I will play even gooder.

Re: the secret to instrumental musical success

Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2019 1:14 am
by The Big Ben
YORK-aholic wrote:
I’m sure you meant, “Play more gooder!”
Mo' betta...

Re: the secret to instrumental musical success

Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2019 6:29 am
by Matt G
most bestest

Re: the secret to instrumental musical success

Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2019 10:07 am
by The Brute Squad
Gamers have a similar philosophy for success in playing video games:

Git Gud

Re: the secret to instrumental musical success

Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2019 3:09 pm
by Birdo
The Brute Squad wrote:Gamers have a similar philosophy for success in playing video games:

Git Gud
F

Re: the secret to instrumental musical success

Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2019 6:15 pm
by Patrase
I thought the secret was instead of giving 100% to music you need to give (yourself a tuba that is sized as) 150%

Re: the secret to instrumental musical success

Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2019 6:18 pm
by roweenie
bloke wrote:Tennessee state income tax
1)Nothing is good :evil:

2)Nothing, is good 8)

(punctuation matters too)

Re: the secret to instrumental musical success

Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2019 6:21 pm
by Ace
bloke wrote:Play good.
Well I'll be darned. Who woulda thought.

Ace

Re: the secret to instrumental musical success

Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2019 7:09 pm
by MikeW
good, gud, gudder, and better don't actually mean much by themselves. You need a standard of comparison.
"gudder dan de udders" suggests itself.

Re: the secret to instrumental musical success

Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2019 7:22 pm
by Three Valves
Incremental success my ***!!

What do we want??

Musical success!!

When do we want it??

NOW!!

Re: the secret to instrumental musical success

Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2019 11:59 pm
by bort
If you haven't read it already, the book "Eats Shoots and Leaves" is a great book for the punctuation snobs of the world (including me).

Re: the secret to instrumental musical success

Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2019 12:55 am
by roweenie
YORK-aholic wrote:
roweenie wrote:)Nothing is good :evil:

2)Nothing, is good 8)

(punctuation matters too)
Look ahead in the road.
Look, a head in the road!

or

Let's eat, Grandma.
Let's eat Grandma!

:evil:
What's that flying around the baby's head?

What's that flying around, the baby's head?

(While we're at it, misuse of the possessive《's》drives me BESERK)

Re: the secret to instrumental musical success

Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2019 3:04 am
by bort
roweenie wrote:
YORK-aholic wrote:
roweenie wrote:)Nothing is good :evil:

2)Nothing, is good 8)

(punctuation matters too)
Look ahead in the road.
Look, a head in the road!

or

Let's eat, Grandma.
Let's eat Grandma!

:evil:
What's that flying around the baby's head?

What's that flying around, the baby's head?

(While we're at it, misuse of the possessive《's》drives me BESERK)
Oh seriously, tell me about it. For me, the worst is using an apostrophe for plural words. Things like:

Tuba mouthpiece's for sale.

OR, even worse:

Tuba mouthpieces' for sale.

Make me absolutely crazy... You don't need an apostrophe!!

Re: the secret to instrumental musical success

Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2019 10:31 am
by The Brute Squad
Three Valves wrote:Incremental success my ***!!

What do we want??

Musical success!!

When do we want it??

NOW!!
Maybe someone can make a JG Wentworth-like business for this.

It's my musical success and I need it NOW!

Re: the secret to instrumental musical success

Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2019 8:18 pm
by Three Valves
bloke wrote:
The Brute Squad wrote:Maybe someone can make a JG Wentworth-like business for this.

It's my musical success and I need it NOW!
Give us "one of your tubas (the better one)", and we'll give you "scale mastery". :D
It’s my 15% confiscated from my income for the last 40 years, and I want it NOW!! :tuba:

Re: the secret to instrumental musical success

Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2019 12:02 am
by Donn
roweenie wrote:(While we're at it, misuse of the possessive《's》drives me BESERK)
Yeah, well, there isn't much hope that it will ever get better, but at any rate, for those who may care enough to think about it but have trouble remembering which way is right ... This is about a part of speech called "pronoun". He, you, etc., and particularly the possessive pronoun its. And their, and your ...

Take your sentence that has one of those possessive pronouns, say "my tuba has a kink in its bell." Or is it, "it's bell"? Well, to find out, swap in another pronoun, "his". "A kink in hi's bell" ... hm, that doesn't look right. How about "the bell is really his's"? Nope. There's no putting an apostrophe in there, with "his", and the point is, "its" is exactly the same. Same part of speech, same rules. Refer to "his", and err no more.

Of course this applies the very same to your and their.

Re: the secret to instrumental musical success

Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2019 12:31 am
by windshieldbug
What’s that in the road, his head? :shock: