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In my penultimate life as a Recruitment Consultant I was approached by many folk who'd lost their jobs through company "restructuring". Inevitably they'd say, "I've been made redundant" - and were then surprised to get a gentle chiding from me that their choice of words was not helping their self esteem.
I always explained that they were certainly NOT redundant, rather the position they'd held had become redundant and they'd been retrenched.
A simple thing, but I believe once they'd told a lot of people they were redundant they'd soon start to believe it.
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careful with superlatives! A pantograph, to mention an analogon, is not the one who has written everything  .
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I used to drive a pantechnicon. It was "pan-" because it would hold everything (especially furniture}: but why "-technicon"?
Any ideas?
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here's a clue: it stems from pantechnic, pertaining to all the arts.
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moving men are artists? i mean aside from being scam artists, as they often are here ?--i am sure you were not , Rhu!
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moving men are artists?
Yes, Helen, and in my experience they are from the deconstructionist school, especially when they are moving my furniture ...
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ie - having enormous spacial acuity?  Like the ultimate "tetris" player, I picked up an art from the old man, who while working for a major "document company" developed the ability to fill every last cubic inch of the trunk of his company car with copier parts in boxes of a hundred different sizes. I've extroplated this *game into retrograding certain melodic fragments to fit into predesignated harmonic structures... not like tonality is/was a goal, but.
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Sorry musick, but your post is a collection of words.. i understand the individual words, and but i got lost when you moved from spacial acuity (which i have) to a game into retrograding certain melodic fragments to fit into predesignated harmonic structures... not like tonality is/was a goal, but.
HUH?
hint--pantechnion is to moving truck as lorry is to truck-- and while i realize spacial acuity is good skill for anyone whose job it is to pack as much into as little space as possible.. what does this have to do with mucic?
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As music (believe me, I wanted to iterate your typo  ) is *often about time, it naturally wanders into a question of space (let us not start that thread again) and, as a composer of music using serial techniques (usually atonal *sounding), I often have predetermined the *space and harmonic context in which to fit a group of notes ... lending credence to the definition as "all of the arts" (not that serial music is specifically *artistic, but.)
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Keven, whatever you're on, it sounds very nice. Can I have some?
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