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Post by cgarges » Sat Oct 23, 2010 12:28 pm

logancircle wrote:Which is better: using proper grammar or knowing what you're talking about?
Applying both makes you a better person.

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Post by logancircle » Sat Oct 23, 2010 12:33 pm

Yeah, but which is better!?!
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Post by cgarges » Sat Oct 23, 2010 12:37 pm

This is TapeOp. You KNOW the answer is "it depends."

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Post by ashcat_lt » Sat Oct 23, 2010 4:01 pm

cgarges wrote:This is TapeOp. You KNOW the answer is "it depends."

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+1

There are definitely times where slang, vernacular, and poor grammar are appropriate and could even be considered more "right" in an artistic, aesthetic sense.

As just one example - imagine re-writing Twain using only proper English. Or

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Post by Peterson Goodwyn » Sat Oct 23, 2010 8:12 pm

cgarges wrote:This is TapeOp. You KNOW the answer is "it depends."

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Might even say you "TapeOpped" that one. Does verbing nouns weird you out?
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Post by Nick Sevilla » Sat Oct 23, 2010 8:29 pm

burn4ever wrote:Hey fellas.
I`m not a pro in the wold of recoding I did it for my self in a homerecording style.
So my question seems very amateurish to the most of you. But anyway ;-)

I?ve think my mixes are not so bad but If I compare to some "big" production
I noticed that my mixes sound to clinical instead of an professionals recoding.

So here my question.
Is it possible to make an mix sound "real" only in the box, or is there the one or other "must have" on outboard stuff I need?
Hi,

I will not tell you anything about how this was done, etc.

Listen to this mix of mine :

http://nicksevilla.com/nicksevilla.com/ ... _Train.mp3

Do you like it? You should give a Yes or No answer please, nothing else.

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Post by Nick Sevilla » Sat Oct 23, 2010 8:32 pm

roygbiv wrote:What do you guys think of this word: "engruntled"?

(i.e., to be gruntled, in the opposite of disgruntled)

Does it exist? If not, did I just invent it? Should I try to trademark it?
Only if you can put a Barcode on it... :lol:
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Post by cgarges » Sat Oct 23, 2010 11:16 pm

Meathands wrote:Might even say you "TapeOpped" that one. Does verbing nouns weird you out?
I get a kick out of that if it's done in a humorous manner. It's still not correct English, but for me, that's much more enjoyable than some crappy, improper buzzword.

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Post by JGriffin » Sat Oct 23, 2010 11:56 pm

jgimbel wrote:
dwlb wrote:...and "disconnect" is not a NOUN!
It can be!


Only when used incorrectly.

English being a living language, however, I am sure that some day soon it will "become" a noun by virtue of so many marketing lunkheads using it frequently enough.
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Post by JGriffin » Sat Oct 23, 2010 11:57 pm

losthighway wrote:Fletcher Munson has a curve.

I find jumping down to low levels is a good way to check if everything can be heard and has enough real estate in a mix, but if I mixed a whole record at super low volumes I would imagine the low frequencies, even the low mids would be a problem.

I thought we were talking about recording levels, not monitor volume.
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Post by jgimbel » Sun Oct 24, 2010 3:53 am

dwlb wrote:
jgimbel wrote:
dwlb wrote:...and "disconnect" is not a NOUN!
It can be!

Only when used incorrectly.

English being a living language, however, I am sure that some day soon it will "become" a noun by virtue of so many marketing lunkheads using it frequently enough.
I guess that didn't come across well, my point was that it can be if it's used incorrectly. What kind of marketing is it used in? I guess it does sound like a more elite version of "disconnection" but I hear it more often conversationally than in marketing. Just curious (not sarcastically!) where you see it often used by marketing lunkheads? It seems like one marketing person does something stupid trying to play it off as being valid, then all the other idiots imitate it acting like they always knew it was valid. That's the forefront of marketing, isn't it?
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Post by Peterson Goodwyn » Sun Oct 24, 2010 8:03 am

That's tough. Seems like you'd have to be pretty prescriptivist to say all verbing (oops I did it!) is incorrect. Surely we can "fool" someone, "medal" in the 100-meter dash, and "access" our files?
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Post by losthighway » Sun Oct 24, 2010 8:38 am

"World English Dictionary
disconnect (ˌdɪskəˈnɛkt) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]

?vb
1. (tr) to undo or break the connection of or between (something, such as a plug and a socket)

?n
2. a lack of a connection; disconnection: a disconnect between political discourse and the public"


The internet said! Also "Cliched comment about the contemporary use of analog and digital in order to get the convenience of digital and the pleasing sonic foot print of analog etc. etc."

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Post by JGriffin » Sun Oct 24, 2010 10:23 am

jgimbel wrote:
dwlb wrote:
jgimbel wrote:
dwlb wrote:...and "disconnect" is not a NOUN!
It can be!

Only when used incorrectly.

English being a living language, however, I am sure that some day soon it will "become" a noun by virtue of so many marketing lunkheads using it frequently enough.
I guess that didn't come across well, my point was that it can be if it's used incorrectly. What kind of marketing is it used in? I guess it does sound like a more elite version of "disconnection" but I hear it more often conversationally than in marketing. Just curious (not sarcastically!) where you see it often used by marketing lunkheads? It seems like one marketing person does something stupid trying to play it off as being valid, then all the other idiots imitate it acting like they always knew it was valid. That's the forefront of marketing, isn't it?
I probably heard it first in a marketing context. I work in advertising (advertising and marketing being two circles of the same inferno) and that's the environment where it first reared its head.
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