What's your preferation?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

My son just asked me what "preferation" meant. I told him I didn't think it was a word; and suggested that he might mean "perforation". But I googled "preferation" anyway, just to see if I was wrong.

I couldn't find any dictionary that included the word; but found 1,750 entries...written by people who used this instead of perforation or preference.

Somebody please pass the Preferation H.

[Quantess]

1. What's my perforation?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

2. That's a 50 cent perforation if I ever saw one...

:D

[GoddessOfGuinness]

3. preferational tweak

[lost-in-nj]

4. here's my prefer-ation

:hi:

lost

[GoddessOfGuinness]

5. That's a lovely spot...

Where was the pic taken?

[lost-in-nj]

8. I have no idea

:rofl: :rofl:

googled cute cowboys!!!!

lost

[GoddessOfGuinness]

9. ...

:spray::rofl:

[ThomCat]

18. The next DU meetup is at a dude ranch?

:P

[liberaltrucker]

6. Kids are by nature a pain in the ass

Prep H won't help, unfortunately. If it did, LTwife would
order it by the pallet! Raising two GDs 4 and 2.

:scared:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

10. If all kids were the kind of pain in the ass mine is...

...there would be many happy parents in this world. Yeah, I'm smitten. :-)

The other day he was talking about some video game, and told me the most poiGnant (pronounced poyg-nant) part of the game was...such and such. I corrected his pronounciation, and asked if he knew what the word meant. He replied that he didn't, but he guessed that it meant "really emotional". Not bad for a 9 year old.

[Fire Walk With Me]

7. I'd thought that I'd made up the word 'enjoyance' but google shows 10 pages of hits.

:shrug:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

11. Check out these poetic lyrics...

http://www.houseoflyrics.com/lyrics/audio_bullys/way_too_long.html

[Fire Walk With Me]

12. Perhaps the song was mixolydian and the lyrics do not of themselves reveal the

potential overall beauty therein. Or some other interesting key signature or time signature. Or was played through all-tube equipment and sounds really good.

Cough.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

13. Ah...a contrasting mix of intellect and ignorance.

Classic. :rofl:

[Fire Walk With Me]

14. Just searching for the bright side of the turd

:)

Rhyme scheme: AAAA, AAAA, AAAA.... And that's just to begin. Have you heard this track, perchance?

:scared:

[Fire Walk With Me]

15. Okay, called them up on youtube...

I can like that type of music, if it's not so repetetive, but the voice and "lyrics" are a dealbreaker.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=lu4rUYI5N7U&feature=related

[GoddessOfGuinness]

16. Could be worse, I guess...

It's pretty boring, except for the overuse of profanity, which annoys my aesthetic preferences.

[Quantess]

17. mixolydian?

Is that a word?

[Fire Walk With Me]

19. Yep, a musical term.

Edit: According to Wikipedia, both Norwegian Wood and Louie Louie are mixolydian.

[Quantess]

21. Cool!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

20. Start on G and play all the white keys of the piano up an octave...

That's the mixolydian mode.

[Quantess]

22. So, it's a piano term?

Only?


Verry Interrestin'

[GoddessOfGuinness]

23. That was just an example in layman's terms...

Modes were used in the earliest known Western music (gregorian chant), and were named for similar scales used by the ancient Greeks.

Modes can begin on any note. The sequences of half steps and whole steps (hereafter called "h" and "w")is what defines them.
To describe them simply:
Using only the white notes of the piano
D = Dorian w h w w w h w
E = Phrygian h w w w h w w
F = Lydian w w w h w w h
G = Mixolydian w w h w w h w
A = Aeolian w h w w h w w
B = Locrian h w w h w w w
C = Ionian w w h w w w h

The Ionian and Aeolian modes are quickly recognized as the major and natural minor scales that we're familiar with today. The Locrian mode was considered more a theoretical mode, as it was awkward to sing.

But modes are often used in contemporary music and in pop music.

:hi:

[Quantess]

24. My mom suggested I take piano lessons at age 7

I said no. I am actually sorry I didn't get piano lessons! At age 37, I am a total brat!
Well there is hope for the future generation.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

25. It's never too late...

I teach violin and viola to beginning adults... :hi: