Comments on: Forte

By: Kyla

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By: Herb

Herb — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 03:45:00 +0000

Never mind that. Watch the dog actually throw the ball. He did this by jerking his head and then releasing the ball. Amazing!

By: Herb

Herb — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 03:44:00 +0000

Never mind that. I noticed the dog actually threw the ball by sharply jerking his head and then releasing the ball. That is astounding!

By: cheddarblanca

cheddarblanca — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:35:53 +0000

It is forte

By: leonard

leonard — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:49:00 +0000

You are soul bright; it must run in the family. My fort is old and is filled with forte. Kulaks make hay before the thunder walzed; many times passed and order filled the organized promise of all faith of love. :oops: I did the “Fathers and Sons”…I cry for Bazarov and all his “Forte’”

By: mike gabbert

mike gabbert — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 02:06:36 +0000

Forte, pronounced “fort,” means one’s strength. It comes from a fencing term describing the blade or shaft of the epee. The part from the base or handle to the midpoint is the forte, or strong part of the blade. The flimsier part from the midpoint to the tip is the foible, or weak part of the blade. We use forte (fort) to describe our strong characteristics just as we describe the strong part of the epee. By the way, our foible is also the weak part of our character. Foible also gives us feeble.

Forte, pronounced “for-tay,” is a musical term meaning to play loudly. It is the opposite of piano which means to play softly. The musical instrument, the piano, got its name from being able to play both softly and loudly; it was called the piano forte, later shortened to piano. These terms like so many in the music lexicon are Italian. Before the piano other keyboard instruments like the harpsichord could only play at one level of volume.

By: louie

louie — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:57:21 +0000

Dear Marina,

I wanted to post to your “My Strong Point” lesson but I could not find it here.

Forgive me but while there may be words that you can find in the OED, like “nounize,” the support for the origin of such words often comes down to poetic license. See, e.g., the reference to Shakespeare’s Henry IV. I guess I am something of purist when it comes to regular discourse or prose, and I do not easily accept poetic fabrications in the these contexts, especially when there are other normal words that can do the job. Otherwise any clever person can just come up with a new fancy shmancy word and say it’s a word. Like so — I want to express a woman’s beautiful blue eyes and how they make me feel so I say they are “celestially” or that I dive into their “bleauty.”

By: CaptainJack

CaptainJack — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:41:28 +0000

My dear, you must been half awake when you replied to my comment. :wink: No part of my comment was even close to a pickup line. My comment was directed to the students. Which in not way I was trying to pickup on. :roll:
Or maybe my Engrish or Taglish confused you. :smile: I’ll try harder at making my comments in Runglish language for you to better understand my thinking. :razz: :mrgreen:

By: Marina

Marina — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:26:20 +0000

You must know karate! ‘Cause your body is kicking! (bad pickup lines!)

By: tabatacash

tabatacash — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:49:34 +0000

Just to add one thing to Cunnivore ( I prefere not to translate from french to enlish your name…) It is “FORT” but in french you do not pronounce the T.

In other words it means that you are strong in a discipline …as in french: “tu es fort en..” or when you say in french ” les abdominos c’est le fort de Marina”…

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