XPost: sci.lang, alt.usage.english   
   From: HenHanna@devnull.tb   
      
   On 6/1/2024 4:50 PM, Ross Clark wrote:   
   > Estabished 2006 by "a group of people in South Carolina".   
   >   
   > "The prime mover was Mitch Carnell, president of the Charleston Speech   
   > and Hearing Center, and the author of several books on communication,   
   > including _Say Something Nice: Be a Lifter @ Work_ (2012). Other   
   > supporters...included the South Baptist Convention and the   
   > Charleston-Atlantic Presbytery, and the day was officially proclaimed by   
   > the mayor of North Charleston."   
   >   
   > Not much uptake in the rest of the world, apparently.   
   >   
   > Crystal comments on the word "lifter" in this sense.   
   > First recorded usage:   
   >   
   > But thou, O Lord, art my defender : thou art my worship, and the lifter   
   > up of my head." (Psalm 3:3, Coverdale translation, 1535)   
   >   
   > Some 17th century writer says that music is "a lifter of Dead, Drowsie   
   >                                            and Melancholly Spirits."   
      
      
      
                      ( in FW,  June is  [the lounger]  )   
      
      
      
   in today's  Am.English...   "a Lifter-Upper"   as in [a Picker-Upper]   
      
      
      
   but Music  is so sweet  when it has a dying fall ???   
      
      
      
    >>> Dying fall:       This refers to a musical phrase that fades away   
               gradually in volume and pitch, often at the end of a section.   
      
   Sweetness of the music:       Orsino finds the music particularly   
                 beautiful when it has this dying fall. It suggests a sense   
                      of melancholic beauty and emotional depth.   
      
   Interpretation:   
      
   Orsino is using the music as a metaphor for love. He initially desires a   
   constant flow of love (play on) but then becomes captivated by the   
   subtle, fading beauty of a specific musical passage (the dying fall).   
      
   This could represent a more nuanced and bittersweet experience of love   
   that resonates with him more than an overwhelming passion.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)