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To: Alouette

I think I remember hearing that Condoleezza is a classical music term, not that I would know, I like country and western myself. ;9)


56 posted on 03/30/2006 12:53:00 PM PST by Ditter
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To: Ditter

Yep. Italian, means something like "with sweetness".


225 posted on 03/30/2006 1:14:50 PM PST by Don Carlos ("Beer is proof God loves us". B. Franklin)
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To: Ditter

That it is.


320 posted on 03/30/2006 1:28:18 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Ditter
I think I remember hearing that Condoleezza is a classical music term...

No. Adjectives in music have Italian masculine endings, such as allego, adagio, crescendo, diminduendo, callando, smorzando, sforzando, etc. Add an Italian feminine "a" at the end, and you'd have a "feminine" classical music term, such as allegra, adagia, etc. There is no condaleezo in classic music. Or in rap, for that matter.

The string instrument "viola" often shows up as a feminine name because it has a feminine ending. Violino and violoncello are masculine, as is faggotto, the Italian term for the bassoon. Fuga, the Italian term for a "fugue", is feminine, but nobody would name their daughter by term in either language.

683 posted on 03/30/2006 3:42:11 PM PST by Publius
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