An article about guitar

Riaan

I've been asked to write a short article on guitar playing for my workplaces' newsletter...last time I had to write something like this must have been my last essay in high school!

But, help is at hand! If you guys don't mind, I will liberally quote from the collective wisdom, wisecracks and philosophies on GFSA, and give collective recognition to all the members of the forum at the end and include the forum's web address.

Does that sound OK to you all?

It has to be in Afrikaans - the home language of > 90% employees and also my first language - but I'm quite sure many guitar terms does not have an Afrikaans equivalent (pickup = tel my op?)! But I'll figure a way around that!

AlanRatcliffe

Sounds great to me Riaan. BTW, asked my wife (editor/translator/musician) about "Pickup" - she says "no idea!". ?

Bob-Dubery

This case seems innocent enough, but does it open up a can of worms? Where does copyright of articles and postings to GFSA reside?

PeteM

Riaan, you could call them hondjies.

aubs1

Hey Riaan, I think the Afrikaans word may be "klank-opnemer", of "sein-opnemer", soos in vir seine (sound signals).......which may also mean recorder. Man that now really has me stumped, keenly awaiting the "absolute" correct word.

But the Eng-Afr dictionary also gives another translation for pickup, "optelmeisie", so you have to be careful.....hahahahha. ?

I'd stick with the English word as in "pickup"..........boy, and you have'nt even started writing yet!!

racman

I think it's a "ses snaar electromagneties geraas maaker ?

Riaan

But the Eng-Afr dictionary also gives another translation for pickup, "optelmeisie", so you have to be careful.....

Yeah Aubs...it could end up like Engrish.com....have you seen that?

Riaan, you could call them hondjies.

LOL good one Pete, that's quite original! PUP's indeed!

This case seems innocent enough, but does it open up a can of worms? Where does copyright of articles and postings to GFSA reside?

Bob, I'm not sure, hence my posting. But I'm sure if one writes an original article, and only quote from and give recognition to a source which as far as I know is not copyrighted in terms of content, and is already in the public domain (internet), it should be OK? Unless you guys are gonna sue me.... ?

But now that you mention it, I also recently wondered what would happen if someone downloaded one of our weekly competition entries, uses it for an ad or something and earn money with it?

Interesting legal point this. I'm sure Riaan C would know, and someone else here - I forgot who that was - also knows copyright law. Maybe they can help.

AlanRatcliffe

@Bob - for purposes of permission to print or reproduce posts or any site content, the copyright is held by www.guitarforum.co.za - i.e. Norio and myself. This includes all site content, so extends to multimedia too.

@Riaan checked our english-Afrikaans technical and scientific dictionaries as well as the music one and there is no specific word for an electric guitar pickup (or pick-up, to be precise) the closest words are two used for transducer (a pickup is basically an electromagnetic transducer) - oordraer or transduseerder.

So... permission is hereby officially granted. ?

Riaan

Thanks Alan! Though I might stick to pickup, oordraer/transduseerder is just so un-rock & roll! ?

Spyke

Good luck with the article. Take a look at what Alan had to say about writing the Studio Advice piece in Battle of the Bands - don't consciously sit and write, just pen a few ideas down, separate them into single topics (for paragraphs) and build up each one.