Jazzy's Post Midnight Selection

Music for the night people -


Nina Simone - Wild Is The Wind

This song wells me up every time. Emotionally devastating ..

Bob Dylan - I've Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You

The new Bob Dylan album is a masterpiece.

Nick Cave - Galleon Ship

Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace.
Extended film in cinemas 5 November.

Enjoy

More Post Midnight Cool

More laid back music for you night people -

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Higgs Boson Blues

Mazzy Star - Fade Into You

Stina Nordenstam - Fireworks

Enjoy

Good Morning

Monday Musings

Most of the afternoon was spent sunbathing as the temperature reached 30 C in the garden sweet spot.

I didn't do much except listening to the radio and reading.

I had a short siesta after sunbathing and then had an ice cream tub to cool down with.

Word Of The Day

Today's word is more technical -


Elision

In linguistics, an elision or deletion is the omission of one or more sounds (such as a vowel, a consonant, or a whole syllable) in a word or phrase. The word elision is frequently used in linguistic description of living languages, and deletion is often used in historical linguistics for a historical sound change.

While often described as occurring in "slurred" speech, elisions are a normal speech phenomenon and come naturally to native speakers of the language in which they occur. Contractions such as can not → can't involve elision, and "dropping" of word-internal unstressed vowels (known specifically as syncope) is frequent: Mississippi → Missippi, history → histry, mathematics → mathmatics.

The opposite of elision is epenthesis, whereby sounds are inserted into a word, as in American English ath[ə]lete, real[ə]tor. The latter illustrates that this and other phenomena do not necessarily occur to ease pronunciation; even speakers who produce real[ə]tor regularly show no difficulty in pronouncing the /lt/ cluster of Walter, helter skelter, filter, etc.

The omission of a word from a phrase or sentence is not elision but ellipsis, or elliptical construction.

Alan Bennett

Alan Bennett for the uninitiated like chocolate_frapp is an English actor, author, playwright, and screenwriter. He was born in Leeds and attended Oxford University, where he studied history and performed with the Oxford Revue. He stayed to teach and research medieval history at the university for several years. His collaboration as writer and performer with Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and Peter Cook in the satirical revue Beyond the Fringe at the 1960 Edinburgh Festival brought him instant fame. He gave up academia, and turned to writing full-time, his first stage play, Forty Years On, being produced in 1968.

His work includes The Madness of George III and its film adaptation, the series of monologues Talking Heads, the play and subsequent film of The History Boys, and audio books, including his readings of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Winnie-the-Pooh.

Some trailers relating to his plays turned into films -

The Lady In The Van

The Madness of King George

The History Boys

These are essential readings too -

The Monday Music Selection

Time for some music methinks -

Stina Nordenstam - Dynamite

Nina Simone - Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair

Alison Krauss & Union Street - I'm Gone

Robin Holcomb - Nine Lives

Van Morrison - Into The Mystic

Enjoy

Good Night