#87315
11/19/2002 4:26 PM
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Do any of you use this term in either writing or speech?
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#87316
11/19/2002 7:00 PM
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"I don't, WW," she said, creating a dialogue. "Where'd you hear this one?"
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#87318
11/19/2002 7:48 PM
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duologue
A dramatic piece spoken by two actors. An irregular formation (first recorded in the 19c.) from Latin duo
or Greek 'two' after monologue. Cf. dialogue.
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#87319
11/19/2002 11:51 PM
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Dear AnnaS,
Where did I hear it? Well, I didn't hear it. I read it. I take my kids through "Peter and the Wolf" once every six years. Every grade level. Then I don't have to listen to it again for another six years. It's a terrible thing, somehow, to think a child never heard "Peter and the Wolf," although I tend to stick with more abstract or straight orchestral music without a story.
Anyway, this is the week for "Peter and the Wolf." And, while my kids are listening, I read a desk edition of the OED as any word nerd would. And while reading through the "d's" I saw "duologue" and thought what a dumb word. I'd never heard anybody using it and sure hadn't read it, but I'm willing to be better informed, as all good word nerds are.
So, I thought I'd ask y'all if you'd heard or read it. I figured if this bunch of, if not word nerds, word hounds didn't toss it around, then at least I wasn't alone.
And that, dear ASp, is that.
Best regards,
WW
P.S. Faldage: Very brief definition there on your Bartleby link. Just about the briefest possible. Is this now a triologue?
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#87320
11/20/2002 12:30 AM
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Dear WW: Whats a semi-duologue? A schizophrenic talking back to his voices.
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#87321
11/20/2002 12:37 AM
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Or in theatre you could have a character with a split personality talking back and forth to both of himselves.
wwh, I'd say you and I have had several duologues here down below the equator.
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#87322
11/20/2002 3:02 AM
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#87323
11/20/2002 11:53 AM
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It's a terrible thing, somehow, to think a child never heard "Peter and the Wolf,"
Dear WW, I agree. I must take some action! What is the youngest listener that you find can fully appreciate the piece?
Thanks for bringing it up , dxb.
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#87324
11/20/2002 12:22 PM
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According to the story I tell to prepare the audience (and the stories vary according to grade level), "Peter and the Wolf" works for various reasons from kindergarten through fifth grade here at my school. I have to prepare most carefully the kindergartners because the wolf's swallowing of the duck could be too startling without preparation. I also prepare my younger children for the sounds of the horns and the drums, which are startling to young ears--and distrubing, too. I let the kindergartners and first graders lie down on the carpet here while listening, just as I did when I was young and listened to a recording of it my parents had given me.
Also, as part of the preparation, we've been looking and listening to the highlighted instruments from the work: the clarinet, the oboe, the bassoon, the flute, the string family, the kettle drums (I don't use the term timpani here as frequently as kettle drums), and the French horns. I can still recall that rush of fear caused by the horns! Even after almost fifty years of knowing the work.
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#87325
11/20/2002 2:27 PM
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Have you ever heard "Peter and the Wolf" with Barry Humphries narrating in his Dame Edna Everidge persona? It was on our local NPR affiliate a couple years ago, and I could swear the local announcer thought Edna was a real person.
Why be pellucid if you can be obfuscatory?
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#87326
11/20/2002 2:36 PM
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Why be pellucid if you can be obfuscatory?
Eschew obfuscation!
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#87327
11/20/2002 5:12 PM
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11/20/2002 5:50 PM
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Thanks for that, WW, very helpful as always.
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