Re: tuplets (was: GDP for kids :)

[Till Rettig]

> 2007/9/24, Henning Hraban Ramm <address@hidden>:
>
> > > As Mark Knoop wrote, (indeed "das") "Tupel" is normally a vector and
> > > as a musical term seems to be as common as "tuplet".
> > > For the German tuplets named Duole, Triole, Quartole, Quintole/Pentole
> > > etc. the neologism would have to be "die Tupole", but I guess that's
> > > silly.
>
> In French, no generic term exist; when we translated the documentation
> we had to create a rather ugly mathematical word:
> since the terms we use are
> triolet ==> meaning triplet
> quartolet
> quintolet
> etc...
>
> We created the
> "n-olet"
> which is a neologism I haven't seen anywhere in French.
>
> But when I'll translate the comic into French, I think I'll just use
> "triolet" since it's by far the most common word.
>
> Valentin
In order to also participate in this discussion, which also seems to confer to me ;-). 
The German translator, being me, has decided to use as well the N-tole construct which I 
remember having heard from my music theacher in high school. On other places in the 
manual I used "rhythmische Konstruktionen", because the N-tole seemed to be so 
mathematical to me. Actually it wasn't hard guessing the tuplet meaning, probably being 
used to it from the Finale manual some years ago... but I hadn't heard of the word Tuplet 
before.

Greetings
Till