I can't make world without the "games" group?

[illoai at gmail.com]

2008/8/27 Kevin Kinsey <kdk at daleco.biz>:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>>
>> Kevin Kinsey <kdk at daleco.biz> writes:
>>>
>>> But FreeBSD might not be a car[1].  Maybe it's a piano.  And a piano
>>> that can play just as beautifully, in tune, and even loudly (and yes,
>>> that was the pianoforte's strong point in 1709) as any modern piano,
>>
>> Quite the opposite, the pianoforte's forte was its ability to play
>> piano.
>>
>> DES
>
> Well, I suppose that it could play any dynamics at all.  Clavs
> and harpsichords weren't so good at it, but, also, if you banged
> them as hard as some of the Romantics did, you'd have knocked them
> to bits.
>
> So, you're correct, in 1709, it was probably "piano" that was
> noticeable, but by 1860, maybe the other way'round?  At any rate, thanks
> for an excellent contribution to the thread, and a wonderful example
> of the complexities of the English language (gotta love reading that
> one out "forte" seven times quickly) :-)
>

I like the (unintentional, perhaps) pun with "strong point".

http://www.wordreference.com/iten/forte
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=forte

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