[mb-style] CSG

[David K. Gasaway]

On 29 Feb 2008 at 10:35, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote:

> And
> I'd find very wasteful if MB gave me a list of releases from different
> countries, different dates, with different booklets, plus several dozens
> pseudo-releases for each of those which had 4 or 5 languages used for
> the notes! 

I'd like that, actually! :)

> Wasteful, and disturbing, because I would wonder: "have all
> these languages been checked? Which is more correct?"

I'd suggest that you just pick the one in your language and move on.  
No need to be disturbed by it.

> I want the second movement of Brahms' third
> symphony to be spelled exactly in the same way so that I can easily
> recover all my recordings of it. So now I must browse all these
> variations to find which suits my needs best".

Well, to make that happen, wouldn't we have to do one of the following?
1) Adopt one language globally - which is unfair/rude to the 
international audience.
2) Adopt one language per composer - which is scary to a dumb-ass like 
myself who only knows one language fluently.

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