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	Slur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Slur (music) is a symbol in Western musical notation indicating that the notes it embraces are to be played legato (smoothly).
		Slurring in Speech means "not to enunciate words normally or clearly".
		Often speech is slurred after a person becomes drunk (from alcohol).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Slur (141 words)

	Slur (music) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A slur is a symbol in Western (A notation used by musicians) musical notation indicating that the notes it embraces are to be played (Click link for more info and facts about legato) legato (smoothly).
		In vocal music, slurs are usually used to mark notes which are sung to a single syllable.
		The ((music) a group of notes connected by a slur) ligature or phrase mark is a curved line that extends over a passage, indicating that the passage is to be interpreted as a single phrase.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sl/slur_(music).htm (186 words)

	John Greschak - Finale Suggestion 163: Inner and Outer Slur and Tie Boundaries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		IWBNI it were possible to adjust the shape of the inner boundary of slurs (and ties) independently of that of the outer boundary.
		For a slur that is above the staff, the "inner" boundary is the lower boundary of the slur.
		Slurs that quickly grow thick at the tips can draw too much attention away from the notehead and tend to blend in or bleed into noteheads.
	www.greschak.com /notation/finale/iwbni/fs163.htm (421 words)

	How to create slurs
		For example, the way that a brass player may execute a slur is to play the first pitch, and then without interrupting his wind pressure, he'll finger the second pitch (without a pronounced tonguing either).
		To simulate a slur on an electronic module (which uses digital waveforms), what you usually want to do is skip (or somehow make less pronounced) the attack portion of the waveform when sounding the slurred note (ie, the second pitch).
		So, you can execute a slur between C and C# by playing the C note, holding it down, and moving the pitch wheel upward until the pitch is raised a half step.
	www.borg.com /~jglatt/tutr/slur.htm (2933 words)

	Slurring Practices
		In her contribution to the "Lute" entry in the New Grove, Diana Poulton suggests that the slur was first used in Italy in the early 17th century as a logical extension of the execution of ornaments.
		Slurring plays an important role in the music as a phrasing device, as well as a means of accenting the syncopations.
		Weiss's approach to articulation and slurring is of particular significance, as he was a contemporary of J.S. Bach and was well acquainted with the Cantor from Leipzig.
	www.delmar.edu /music/slurring.html (1865 words)

	Slur, Ties and Phrases for lower brass instruments \| Music
		Slur at least two notes on either the trombone or the euphonium.
		Recognize a slur marking and be able to tell the difference between a slur and a tie.
		Slur is falling from a tree but not hitting any branches.
	www.teachnet.com /lesson/music/general/brass.html (359 words)

	Monkeyfist.com: Bush's Racist Slur
		And, generally, supporters of the president have defended his use of the slur by the same tactic: it's not problematic because most Americans are unaware that "Paki" is offensive.
		First, Bush used the term knowingly and premeditatedly, that is, he knew the term is a racist slur, and he meant to use it as a racist slur; in which case, he is not only a racist but dangerously unhinged.
		Second, Bush used the term accidentally; that is, he knew that it is a racist slur and its use was a verbal or mental slip.
	monkeyfist.com /articles/804 (1372 words)

	John Greschak - Finale Suggestion 631: An Option to Make a Given Smart Shape Slur be Dashed and Tapered
		A dashed slur would be generated by partitioning a normal slur into the specified number of dashes in such a way that all dashes would have the same length.
		In the case that the sum total of the dash lengths and gap lengths is less that the total length of the slur, the remaining length would be distributed symmetrically into the gaps, as evenly as possible.
		The latter approach would cause the thinner dashes of a typical slur to be slightly longer than the thicker dashes that occur along the horizontal midsection of the slur.
	www.greschak.com /notation/finale/iwbni/fs631.htm (599 words)

	Slur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A slur is a curved line drawn across any set of consecutive notes in the same part.
		In vocal music, notes slurred together are all to be sung to the same syllable that is written above or below the first slurred note.
		In music for stringed instruments, notes slurred together are to be played with one bow, that is, with one bowing movement, up or down, without a change of direction.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/neil_hawes/theory35.htm (353 words)

	Slur - Uncyclopedia
		Slur is spoken in just about every country on earth.
		Generally, Slurs are used between people of different races/cultures, as a universal and understandable greeting.
		The greeting form of Slur is often more common than the formal linguistic use of Slur, as the greeting serves to inform both parties what languages they have in common.
	www.uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Slur (305 words)

	Dolmetsch Online - Music Theory Online - Phrasing & Articulation
		Slurs, which tend to embrace a smaller number of notes, help to shape the musical line even within broader phrasing marks and performers must be able to distinguish between them.
		Slurring, in such surroundings, would obsure the line, and so the performer has to be able to adjust the performance to the demands made by the surroundings by ignoring slur and phrase marks that may be redundant.
		When used under a slur, the staccato mark will have a slightly modified effect depending on the 'weight' of the note within the slur were it to have no staccato mark.
	www.dolmetsch.com /musictheory21.htm (5098 words)

	Discipline over slur questioned (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		But the city manager is unwilling to say the slur was uttered until a complete investigation is finished.
		To that end, she enlisted a local sound enhancement expert and a speech pathologist to watch the tape.
		But Councilman John Cranley said it was clear to him it was a slur.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/2004/01/15/loc_butler15.html (536 words)

	The Racial Slur Database (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Christians in the times of WWII when the Jews were most hated used this slur as a reason to hate Jews.
		The slur is also used by some Native Americans against whites: "moon" as in pale, and "cricket" as in whites have big eyes and gangly legs.
		Slur perhaps originally used derisively against the Dutch, calling them "John Cheese" (they made/ate a lot of cheese); Non-English speaking Dutch called back to the Americans, yelling "Yankee" (mispronunciation).
	killwhitey.fromadia.com /RSDB.html (6895 words)

	It is a slur!
		Yes, "ethnic slur" is very harsh cause the phrase IS an ethnic slur and an oxymoron it is not.
		An ethnic slur is the attribution of negative, sarcastic, humiliating and demeaning traits to human beings based on their place of birth, race or creed aka "regional chauvinism".
		In fact, the English word "gyp" which means to swindle or defraud is derived from Gypsy and "gyp" is an ethnic slur the same as "Gypsy' warning".
	www.phrases.org.uk /bulletin_board/11/messages/703.html (255 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Seumas Milne: This slur of anti-semitism is used to defend repression
		Seumas Milne: This slur of anti-semitism is used to defend repression
		But none of that excuses the smear that left or liberal support for Palestinian rights is somehow connected to resurgent anti-Jewish racism - an absurd slur which is itself being used as an apologia for Israel's brutal war of subjugation in the occupied territories.
		All the evidence is that it is the far right, the traditional fount of anti-semitic poison, which has been overwhelmingly responsible for attacks on both Muslim and Jewish targets in Europe.
	www.guardian.co.uk /israel/comment/0,10551,712266,00.html (1311 words)

	NWCForum - slur technicals
		Not only do the slurs automatically swoop, the amount of swoop can be controlled by the use of hidden objects that affect the slur routing, but not the music (this is a trick).
		The new slurs were made similarly by setting some work in NWC2 and extracting the slurs as graphics and passing those to a font program.
		Now when you need the special slur, you just tweak the appropriate batch of 16ths, without having to do the preliminary stuff (it was already done in a couple of quick steps).
	www.noteworthysoftware.com /nwcforum/4384.htm (2095 words)

	Political correctness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Conservatives picked up and once again transformed the notion of political correctness to claim that a left-wing movement based in liberal academic circles was attempting to create a new doctrinaire political orthodoxy through social engineering which included changing words and phrases that some groups found offensive.
		Use of the term then declined in the late 1990s, and it is now mostly seen in comedy or as a political slur with questionable meaning.
		More recently, the term has been reclaimed by a tiny subset of multiculturalist writers and speakers who reject (or are oblivious to) its controversial connotations and origins.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Political_correctness (4491 words)

	slur - definition by dict.die.net
		To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
		With periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his crimes.
		A mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo.
	dict.die.net /slur (198 words)

	CMU slur brings apology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Meseguer has fired cartoonist Bob Rost, who drew the strip in which a goat uses a racial slur to brag to a mouse that he had hit a fl person on a bike.
		Meseguer explained to the crowd yesterday that the racial slur had been allowed into print accidentally because fatigue had impaired the editors' judgment.
		Oswald later said she was unimpressed by Meseguer's apology and by his promises that nothing like the slur would happen again.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/04095/295991.stm (840 words)

	Arkansas News Bureau - White accused of making racial slur in March
		White testified he did not know it was a slur.
		He also said he apologized and said he never meant for it to be construed as a racial slur.
		Walker's suggestion that White used a racially demeaning term is the second time he has tried to implicate a university official with using a racial slur.
	www.arkansasnews.com /archive/2004/05/12/News/203129.html (908 words)

	City solicitor's office brought in on alleged slur in police tape (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		DOWNTOWN - The investigation of an alleged racial slur by a Cincinnati police officer in 1999 has now expanded to the city solicitor's office.
		The solicitor's office turned over a copy of a videotape containing the alleged slur to lawyers for two Cincinnati police officers suing the city in 2000.
		On Thursday, Solicitor J. Rita McNeil asked Earnest McAdams, the city's prosecutor, to investigate whether anyone in the Law Department viewed the tape prior to turning it over in the civil case, and whether they were aware it contained the slur.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/2004/01/16/loc_butler16ps.html (242 words)

	joannejacobs.com: Suffering a slur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Two Vero Beach High School students are in counseling to deal with the trauma they suffered when their teacher read a racial slur used by a fl character in an award-winning novel, A Land Remembered, that depicts the rise of a Cracker family over three generations.
		If a fl teacher reads a fl racial slur from a book where a fl character is using it, you have to wonder who is violating the kids' civil rights.
		Not to ruin your story, but tales of fl people using racial slurs in reference to white people usually are handled in the way you describe.
	www.joannejacobs.com /mtarchives/013505.html (3020 words)

	[Bonobos] Re: Bush's Racist Slur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Actually, even though you might, the point is that just like these, 'paki' is clearly a racist slur.
		Here's a case: a customer growls at a stockboy in a crowded grocery mart, "move out of my way, you dirty Paki".
		Regardless of my agenda or my grip, "Paki" is a racial slur, and Bush's use of it, and failure to apologize, are unacceptable.
	monkeyfist.com /pipermail/bonobos/Week-of-Mon-20020107/000614.html (162 words)

	Wisconsin Legislator Uses Anti-gay Slur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On Feb. 13, the Assembly debated a resolution to commend the Boy Scouts of America, in the face of criticism of the Scouts’ anti-gay policies.
		Huebsch publicly apologized two days later for the slur, calling the remark “a foolish act — in the heat of passion.” Some of his Republican colleagues criticized it as well.
		Others argue, however, that antigay slurs like “queer” are different.
	www.instepnews.com /slur.html (744 words)

	[mplpost] "Limey" a racial slur? - most of the origin and WHY it is
		Re the comment of Pat Moore on the derivation of 'LIMEY' Essentially this is correct that limes were used to prevent scurvy on some british ships.
		The reason it is considered a slur is that originally lemons were used on long voyages to prevent scurvy, but some ship owners thought that this was too expensive and so substituted CHEAPER limes which basically worked though perhaps not as effectively.
		If there is anyone from Salmon Arm BC folk club I have not forgotten to renew my subscription, just lack of time and forgetfulness, I will do it soon.
	www.coolname.com /pipermail/maplepost-mirror/2004-January/019031.html (804 words)

	Teacher accused of racial slur
		Penalties for harassment are progressive and vary from a verbal reprimand to firing, she said.
		Little said though the teacher admitted to the racial slur, the district is remaining "completely neutral" until the investigation is complete.
		Howard said the incident is the second of its kind in his 13 years at the school.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /local/122111_racialslur15.html (994 words)

	ESPN.com: MLB - Ump Froemming apologizes for using anti-Semitic slur
		Slur costs umpire 10 days, Opening Day assignment
		NEW YORK -- Longtime umpire Bruce Froemming has apologized for using an anti-Semitic slur to describe a Major League Baseball administrator and said he won't contest his suspension and loss of an Opening Day assignment in Japan levied against him by baseball Thursday.
		Froemming told Bloomberg News on Friday that he received a 10-day suspension without pay for a remark about umpiring administrator Cathy Davis.
	espn.go.com /mlb/news/2003/0130/1501643.html (841 words)

	NWCForum - Location of triplet slur
		I haven't been able to override the default placement of the triplet slur.
		My main problem is that right now the slur is overwritting my lyrics so I would like to place the triplet slur above the notes.
		I think I mean the bracket indicating the triplet grouping instead of a vocal slur.
	www.noteworthysoftware.com /nwcforum/3272.htm (825 words)

	UGA officials suspend exhibit with racial slur \| ajc.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		UGA officials suspend exhibit with racial slur
		ATHENS — University of Georgia officials temporarily have covered a quote that includes a racial slur in an exhibit honoring one of the first fl students to enroll at the school.
		UGA posted a notice over the quote that says it will remain covered until a permanent decision about its fate has been made.
	www.ajc.com /news/content/metro/0205/08uga.html (284 words)

	reviewjournal.com -- News: ON-AIR REMARK: Activists condemn racial slur
		Blair's friends defended him, saying he is not racist and did not deserve to be fired.
		Prather could not be reached for comment Monday, and station staff referred calls to Jim Thomas of the Journalism Broadcast Group in Milwaukee, which owns the station.
		Attempts to reach Blair were unsuccessful, but his agent, Sue McInerney, said that her client simply stumbled when delivering the forecast and that what he said "was not a racial slur." She said that the Channel 13 fired him without cause and that station officials are refusing to honor his contract.
	www.reviewjournal.com /lvrj_home/2005/Jan-18-Tue-2005/news/25683849.html (868 words)

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