WW as Parasite (was:Snape's iPod)

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 142679


> Nora: 
> Pentatony can be conceptualized as a subset of the diatonic scale, 
> you know. :) 

a_svirn:
I suppose. And Chinese characters can be transcribed with Latin 
letters.
 
> Nora: 
> Melodic formation...okay, that's getting way too far 
> afield for onlist, I think.  And tuning and temperament is the 
> discussion from the deep pits.  But it is amazing how easily music 
> cultures borrow and adapt ideas from other cultures, very quickly 
but 
> in totally idiosyncratic ways.

a_svirn:
But that's what Besty's initial point was, or did I get it wrong? 
That wizarding culture borrows and adopts ideas from the muggle 
world. Since the process is not for obvious reasons reciprocal, I'd 
say, it qualifies as parsimony.