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latishya #179684 10/19/08 04:14 AM
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[smacking palm to my forehead e] It finally occurred to me that I might get it from listening to the song! Unfortunately for me, I can't quite tell. Sometimes I hear it as chair-, and sometimes sair. Ah well; we may not do it anyway.

Edit: First, thank you! Then, [minor outrage e]: it doesn't matter where a person is from; if it's supposed to be care, then we should pronounce it care; chair, then chair; sair, then sair.
(I only get to do pronunciation variations on English!)

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Y'all speak English?? \:o

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Sometimes I hear it as chair-, and sometimes sair.

The /ʧɛr/ pronunciation would be Church or Italian Latin and the /sɛr/ could be French or English (or maybe if it's /tsɛr/ German. Most of the major languages in Europe have developed their own modes of pronouncing Latin.


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My choir (I am a BWTSTP*) goes overboard about pronouncing Latin; for French composers we use French Latin, for German ones German Latin . . . if it were up to me I would stick with Italian Latin, since they are at least on the spot, even if they have demonstrably altered their pronunciation over the centuries.

But it's all for the fun of it in the end. Nobody knows how it sounded 2000 years ago.
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Jackie #179716 10/20/08 01:23 PM
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Of course, I found the list too, but the sight of it all made me take a silly direction. The following is silly too and I hope it will not be taken as serious sacrilege:

Pachelbel rant

Rob Paravonian

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BranShea #179717 10/20/08 01:55 PM
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free choral music

and Howells is great.


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BranShea #179721 10/20/08 06:06 PM
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If I only liked white notes, would it make me anti-semantic?

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White answer: No,but if you would also only like to read books with blank pages and look at paintings that are just white canvas and murals that are only whitewashed walls, I would say you would be heading towards the anti-semantic. I mean, can white coffee still be called coffee?

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Only with liberal amounts of creamer! And "white chocolate" is an oxymoron. It may but white, but it sure ain't chocolate!!! :0)

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