Re: [PATCH] ledger lines

[David Raleigh Arnold]

Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

> I'm very skeptic of your claims, like you write:
>
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> > Tradition is not evidence.
>
> Can you back 
>
>
> > just as we use
> > bass instead of base.
>
> this up with references ?


Burney spelled it base.  Bass is just to make it like the Italian.
Nothing wrong with that.


> Bass is related to the latin for low, whereas base is related to the
> Greek verb "bainoo" for step (eg. Xenophon's Anabasis). I'd say there
> is no basis (pun intended) for mixing them up, and if anyone did so in
> the 1600s, then they're as clueless as the people who mix it up today.


Are you saying that Germanic languages are somehow more related to Greek 
than Latin?
It is clueless not to believe that?

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Information is not knowledge.           Belief is not truth.
Indoctrination is not teaching.   Tradition is not evidence.
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