Errors / Typos in the playlist

[mailotron]

Hi,
No comment
Mailo

[mailotron]

Hi, Echolyn 's Human lottery apears twice in the request list
Mailo

[mailotron]

Hi,
When selected Sylvan a lot of "void" tracks appears timed each at 0:00 and under Sylvan+
Mailo

[podakayne]

not sure if this should be a new thread or not but ...what happened to:

david cross - Cakes, off Exiles cd it's MIA
traffic - Dream Gerrard, When the Eagle Flies

there are probably more but these two come to mind first.
poda

nevermind...i see Dream Gerrard has arrived on the set list...happy, happy me...you'll be hearing it soon

[mailotron]

Hi,
When you search with 'interzone' in the requests list no less than 69 interzone messages are apparently available.
mailo

[mailotron]

Hi,
one only Robert Wyatt cd in the request list and its title is
Ruth is stranger thAn Richard not .... thEn Richard
Mailo

[Roger -Dot- Lee(Admin)]

Originally posted by mailotron
Hi,
one only Robert Wyatt cd in the request list and its title is
Ruth is stranger thAn Richard not .... thEn Richard
Mailo

If you wish to be gramattically correct, it would be ...THAN... and not ...THEN...

Roger -Dot- Lee, Grammar Nazi in a previous life.

[mailotron]

Hi RL,
thx for the grammar lesson
By the way , what about your french level?

[Roger -Dot- Lee(Admin)]

Originally posted by mailotron
Hi RL,
thx for the grammar lesson
By the way , what about your french level?

My French level is at an equivalent level to my Swahili level. IE I know it exists, I've heard that other people might speak it, but that's about the extent of it.

Now Russian, that's another story. I can actually say such things as "That is a very nice Kalishnikov." and "Comrade Stalin would be rolling in his grave if he were alive today."

But French? Not my cup of Borshch.

Roger -Dot- Lee

[mailotron]

Hi RL,
Ok RL , please try to be a little bit more indulgent or a wee bit more tolerant of people who like me are not natural born english speakers.
I know my english is bad as my swahili and russian are and I don't need private lessons
Regards
Mailo

[Rick and Roll]

Originally posted by Roger Lee
If you wish to be gramattically correct, it would be ...THAN... and not ...THEN...

Roger -Dot- Lee, Grammar Nazi in a previous life.

Didn't you two say exactly the same thing? The song is than and mislabelled as then, wasn't it?

[mailotron]

Hi RIck,
You are right. I just asked to fix a mislabelled title but RL granted more attention to the form than to the substance of my e-mail
regards
Mailo
My text is once more gramatically inacurrate, don't tell him

[mailotron]

Hi,
I requested Wobbler ' only available track twice ( friday and saturday) and it has not been played.
mailo

[Roger -Dot- Lee(Admin)]

Originally posted by mailotron
Hi RL,
Ok RL , please try to be a little bit more indulgent or a wee bit more tolerant of people who like me are not natural born english speakers.
I know my english is bad as my swahili and russian are and I don't need private lessons
Regards
Mailo

Evidently my humor missed the mark (not surprising).

English, by its very definition, is not an easy language to learn. My point was that to be grammatically correct, it would be 'than', and not 'then'. It's one of those little things that confuse even natural born english speakers, and forces American English teachers to utter such phrases as "I'll take a double rye on the rocks."

A look through my spam folder on my email client shows some interesting bastardizations of the language. It's like someone found a thesaurus and tossed it into a food processor, hoping that I'd buy their knock-off rolex from them. But I digress.

As for the song itself, I can only go based on what's in the file and what I can find on the web. My research has shown that the title is "Ruth is Stranger Than Richard". The 'Then' phrase turned up zero google hits, where as the 'Than' version turned up several (including a pointer to the Monty Python sketch Ministry of Silly Walks. Make of that what you will).

Anyway, when I went to look at the entry in the station, it showed up as 'Than', so if it was labelled as 'Then', then someone fixed it before I got to it.

And my French sucks. Trust me. I know better than to even try to converse with someone in French. With the exception of one weekend this summer, the last time I was anywhere near a French speaking area was 1982 in Montreal. I butchered the language then, and I'd butcher it now.

So Rick, I don't know if your posting should be answered with a 'yes', a 'no', a 'someone beat me to the fix', or 'Machina improba! Vel mihi ede potum vel mihi redde nummos meos!'

Now if you'll all excuse me, I'm going to go lay down. I think I just hurt myself.

Roger -Dot- Lee, Budyet to sosyskoj v vashem karmanye ili ve kak raz radostne uvidet' menya?

[Roger -Dot- Lee(Admin)]

Originally posted by mailotron
Hi,
I requested Wobbler ' only available track twice ( friday and saturday) and it has not been played.
mailo

Well, since Wobbler was actually part of the Interzone show and is not officially part of the Aural Moon music library, it shouldn't have been visible. It wasn't playing because it wasn't imported into the library properly.

That's been fixed.

Roger -Dot- Lee

[mailotron]

Hi,
Title of their live tracks is Reflections and not refelections
mailo

[mailotron]

Hi,

VDGG's title track is The emperor IN his .........NOT.. ON his ...
Mailo

[Roger -Dot- Lee(Admin)]

Originally posted by mailotron
Hi,
Title of their live tracks is Reflections and not refelections
mailo

According to the CD, it IS Refelections, however upon Googling(*) I found three sources where it should be Reflections.

Fixed.

Roger -Dot- Lee, fixer of library stuff.

Footnotes:

(*) Googling: verb. To use the Google Search Engine to determine a given bit of information.

Gotta LOVE English. Not only do we freely and willfully pilfer words from wherever we wish, but we even make them up on the spot. No wonder people have such problems with this language. It even confuses us native speakers sometimes.

[Roger -Dot- Lee(Admin)]

Originally posted by mailotron
Hi,

VDGG's title track is The emperor IN his .........NOT.. ON his ...
Mailo

Google proves you right yet again, Mailo.

Fixed.

Roger -Dot- Lee, catching them all at one time.

[Roger -Dot- Lee(Admin)]

Originally posted by Rick and Roll
Didn't you two say exactly the same thing? The song is than and mislabelled as then, wasn't it?

The way I read the posting was that it was supposed to be THEN. I may have misread, it wouldn't be the first time.

Part of the problem is with making sure things are grammatically correct vs. what the song title actually is. Just because a song title doesn't follow precise rules of grammar doesn't mean it's not the title. Music is littered with such examples (since, by and large, most musicians aren't as fluent in the language as others). Just because something is grammatically incorrect doesn't by definition it's an error with the song. Maybe that's what the artist intended. There have been a couple of times that I've gone digging for the precise title of a song on Google only to find it BOTH ways. If I can get a track listing from an authoritative source, that's the one I go with.

Hope that clears things up. And yes, I double check just about every requested change that I implement, no matter who puts the correction in. About the only person I haven't caught with an error is 'Spaz, largely because he does the same research before he submits a correction (often sending me a link for verification). Oh, and you too, Rick, too, for largely the same reason (though I don't think you've ever sent me the link. That's OK, though, since you're usually proven right after a quick search anyway).

In short, I guess I'm saying that before you submit a correction, make sure that it's incorrect and not designed that way.

Roger -Dot- Lee, Google is your friend.