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July 7

Tyler Faith's Email Address?

Does anyone know what Tyler Faith's email address is? —SGA314 I am not available on weekends (talk) 13:19, 7 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If a given person's email address is not publicly known, disclosing it would be a BLP violation. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 16:41, 7 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That's the thing, I don't know if her email address is publicly known or not. I have no clue. —SGA314 I am not available on weekends (talk) 16:56, 7 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If you can't find it via Google or whatever, then it's probably not publicly known. Better you should contact her through her employer or facebook or something. If I were a celeb and gave out my email to the public, I should have my sanity questioned. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 16:58, 7 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I can't access Google or Facebook. Thus why I ask here. —SGA314 I am not available on weekends (talk) 17:10, 7 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A quick search of Google indicates no information. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 17:22, 7 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ah ok. Thanks for the help. —SGA314 I am not available on weekends (talk) 17:29, 7 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Adverb to go with dynamic sign fffff

We know that

f = loud
ff = very loud
fff = extremely loud
ffff = tremendously loud

What adverb can come before the word "loud" when describing the dynamic sign fffff?? Georgia guy (talk) 14:12, 7 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"Deafeningly" ? StuRat (talk) 14:45, 7 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Is that your WP:OR? I really wouldn't know how to compare "extremely loud" to "tremendously loud", and your examples would make just as much sense to me if they were swapped. It's not like "extreme" and "tremendous" have fixed relative meanings in the intensity they convey, unlike e.g. "loud", "louder", "loudest", where the comparative structure is part of the language. Literally, fffff would mean "very, very, very, very, loud". That is clunky, but at least we could all agree that that is supposed to be louder than "very, very, very, loud" (ffff). Or you could just say fffff is fortississississimo. See dynamics_(music) for more info. But if you just want an adverb that conveys large magnitude, you could try "astonishingly" - "exorbitantly", "absurdly", "ridiculously" "terrifyingly", or any other of the similar but vague words we have like that. Just watch out for "supremely" or "loudest", these are words that would imply no sound could be louder and that's not the case. SemanticMantis (talk) 15:13, 7 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

We can all agree that "very, very, very, loud" is louder than itself ? :-) StuRat (talk) 15:15, 7 July 2015 (UTC) [reply]

Oops, fixed. I also fixed the number of 'f's and 'iss's. I think it's correct now, but I'm tired of all the counting :) SemanticMantis (talk) 15:57, 7 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Is ffff the appropriate dynamic sign for Hawkwind's Sonic Attack? {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 212.95.237.92 (talk) 16:19, 7 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Also, couldn't we make the same argument about "very" versus "ultra" versus "super", as in VHF and UHF and SHF ? StuRat (talk) 16:29, 7 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

.. and, perhaps to a lesser extent, to the SI prefixes mega- ("great"), giga- ("giant") and tera- ("monster"). See here for some examples of extreme numbers of fs and ps in music. The 1812 Overture "only" goes up to ffff - effing loud, perhaps? AndrewWTaylor (talk) 16:37, 7 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@AndrewWTaylor: No, that would be effffing loud. ;) Double sharp (talk) 10:19, 28 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

And speaking of extreme fastness (well, we are now), Schumann's Piano Sonata No. 2 in G minor has a passage in the 1st movement notated "So rasch wie möglich" ("as quickly as possible"), at the end of which passage he instructs the pianist to play "Schneller" ("faster") and then "Noch schneller" ("still faster"). Perhaps he should have just said "precipitevolissimevolmentissimo" and be done with it. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 19:57, 7 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

So "faster play faster" was around long before it was used here. Learning something new every day is the best. MarnetteD|Talk 20:18, 7 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The only. I contend it's not possible to live an hour, let alone a day, without learning something new. The thing is, recognising it when it happens, rather than just being a mindless sponge. Of course, whether each new thing is of apocalyptic moment or of utter inconsequence, or even occasionally somewhere in between, is neither here nor there. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 21:51, 7 July 2015 (UTC) [reply]

Then at the other end we have As_Slow_as_Possible, which is almost an explicit challenge to the conductor/performers, with predictably hilarious/fascinating/boring results, depending on your interests. The Halberstadt Cathedral's organ should be finishing up September 5, 2640, provided someone has tended to the organ (and the cathedral, the city, the state, human civilization in Europe, etc.) through the interim :) SemanticMantis (talk) 22:04, 7 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]