https://nicomuhly.com/news/2008/style-sheet/ The official website of the New York-based composer Nico Muhly. Sat, 03 Jan 2009 06:52:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 https://nicomuhly.com/news/2008/style-sheet/comment-page-1/#comment-7602 Sat, 03 Jan 2009 06:52:11 +0000 http://nicomuhly.com/?p=940#comment-7602 how amusing.

]]> https://nicomuhly.com/news/2008/style-sheet/comment-page-1/#comment-7594 Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:49:53 +0000 http://nicomuhly.com/?p=940#comment-7594 I would be curious to see how the Times handles Blue Öyster Cult, Motörhead and Mötley Crüe. I guess since none of them are French…

]]> https://nicomuhly.com/news/2008/style-sheet/comment-page-1/#comment-7527 Thu, 25 Dec 2008 17:41:28 +0000 http://nicomuhly.com/?p=940#comment-7527 What a smart way for Bjork to help I like that.

]]> https://nicomuhly.com/news/2008/style-sheet/comment-page-1/#comment-7479 Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:03:43 +0000 http://nicomuhly.com/?p=940#comment-7479 Ultimately, perhaps, the choice is either going all the way with the local language’s alphabet and orthography (how about Hungarian, in which the vowels have long and a short forms: a – á, e – é, i – í, o – ó, u – ú, ö – Å‘, ü – ű ?) or returning to and adopting even more anglified forms (keeping, for example, elegant-if-imperial old place-names like Cologne, Aix-la-Chapelle, Bombay, Madras, & Naples, and adding such names as John S. Brook, Frank Flour, Joe Green, & George Grove (for Bach, Liszt, Verdi, Ligeti, respectively).

]]> https://nicomuhly.com/news/2008/style-sheet/comment-page-1/#comment-7468 Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:50:56 +0000 http://nicomuhly.com/?p=940#comment-7468 The lack of diacritics when the NYT writes about Turkish people is even more irritating, since it renders the pronunciation of some names in a pretty much phonetic language impossible to guess.

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