Okay, please excuse me if I sound stupid here, but what is Pedants R Us?

yeah, good physical condition is really good for playing. like, a sax showed me how to breath correctly, and like when he sucked in, his stomach expanded alot! and when he brethed out, his abs liek flexed out (6 pack lol) and you could tell he was really pushing air, it was pretty crazy!

From the American Heritage Dictionary...

Pedant

1. One who pays undue attention to book learning and formal rules.
2. One who exhibits one`s learning or scholarship ostentatiously.

And no, the irony hasn`t escaped me

Thank you! I wish I wasn`t so stupid at times.

You`re clearly not stupid...

And I`ve actually had people tell me I have thesaurus-itis, heh heh....

Forgot one.....

Pedant:

1. One who pays undue attention to book learning and formal rules.

2. One who exhibits one`s learning or scholarship ostentatiously.

3. A person who describes a flutist as: "a woodwind musical instrument performer specializing exclusively in edge-tone, air-reed, transversely manipulated, analog, musical instruments."

Now I had to correct the spelling in two places on my definition all by myself. Who`s not paying attention huh??.

Moving on to the definition of "Ostentatious".....whazzzat woyd??

~Bilbo

I believe it has something to do with a lamp... with beaded fringe....

and made out of claret-colored velvet...

Lamp?
And I thought it was a prehistoric bird.

One of my pet peeves is a student who shows up without their book and tells me that the dog mauled it. A few times, it has actually been true. Now should I be doubly peeved at them and their pet?

My cat used to sit on the top of my piano and if she didn`t like what I was playing, would take the music away with her teeth and, if she wasn`t caught in time, eat it. She`s going senile now, bless her.

How cute! I have a cat that will steal my husbands shorts if he lays them on the bathroom floor when he goes to take a shower.

One of my bunnies likes to steal my music if I leave it out on the floor. She will shred it too! She also goes into the book self and takes her favorite book off of it called Bunny my honey. No joke. With 11 animals in the house it can be a mad house at times!

Kara, do you live at a petting zoo? How do you stay sane?
Of course I shouldn`t talk my family use to have 5 guinea pigs, a rabbit, 20 chickens, a horse, a dog and two pigs.
Those were crazy times!

one student of mine was instructed to mark breaths in her piece, when she came back for her next lesson the breaths were not marked I asked why not, she said that she thought "mark breaths" was the name of one of my male students,

you can`t make this stuff up

eleven animals is nothing...my aunt has at least 30 or something...

Patrick: "Mark Breaths" - how could that girl think that was a name of a boy?? You mark the breaths...besides...who on earth has a last name of Breath!!