What is the snowflake?

[leigh anne]

So what is the snowflake thing right beside the"Ped" thing? Is it cancel?

[lostinidlewonder]

Have you not heard of the website google.com?

[leigh anne]

Have you not heard of the website google.com?

Have you not heard of staying quiet? Or do you just want to start fights everywhere?

[lostinidlewonder]

You asking obsolete questions which can be solved by Google, don't have to get triggered that that is pointed out to you. Pot calling the kettle black, who is starting the fight I think it's you, I just responding and watching you have a hissy fit over it. Why so triggered snowflake? Lol

[klavieronin]

So what is the snowflake thing right beside the"Ped" thing? Is it cancel?

It seems a perfectly reasonable question to ask on a piano forum.

Yes, it’s means “release the pedal”.

[lostinidlewonder]

Teach a person to fish for themselves. Learning how to find an answer to a basic question which can be so easily found on google will make their education expand furthermore. Relying on strangers on a quiet forum to answer a basic question is rather futile but I guess some people will promote that if they want to.

[leigh anne]

It seems a perfectly reasonable question to ask on a piano forum.

Yes, it’s means “release the pedal”.

Thank you very much.

[leigh anne]

Teach a person to fish for themselves. Learning how to find an answer to a basic question which can be so easily found on google will make their education expand furthermore. Relying on strangers on a quiet forum to answer a basic question is rather futile but I guess some people will promote that if they want to.

Oh don't act so caring

[lostinidlewonder]

Who is the one acting here? It's just logic.

[leigh anne]

Who is the one acting here? It's just logic.

Yeah right. Go spit out your logic so you could remind yourself too. Not on this topic but on others.

[lostinidlewonder]

It is not my logic it is just the truth. Have you forgotten this is a PUBLIC forum, you will get all sorts of responses. Go learn to use google is a perfectly fine answer to your basic question which can so easily be looked up.  You can continue to try and fight with me, I will just response as normal. You should learn to use google, that is nothing to get upset over unless you want to live in your own little bubble and refuse to think outside of it, but why interact on a public forum them?

[klavieronin]

Teach a person to fish for themselves. Learning how to find an answer to a basic question which can be so easily found on google will make their education expand furthermore. Relying on strangers on a quiet forum to answer a basic question is rather futile but I guess some people will promote that if they want to.

Just so I understand correctly, are you saying that you answered that way because you thought it would be the most helpful answer? That you merely had leigh anne’s best interest at heart?

[lostinidlewonder]

I don't know who the OP is to know what their "best interests" are. I merely gave a response which would provide them with a quicker answer and also would open up the idea that maybe google is a good place to initially research a question before asking it on a discussion board. This is a response which thinks beyond the question asked, if you just want to answer the question and be done with it that's fine, I think learning to source answers for basic questions is more the crux of the problem here.

[klavieronin]

Hmm…, I guess I assumed that the OP had already done a google search and either couldn’t find the answer or wasn’t sure the answer they found was correct and wanted to confirm it with fellow pianists.
When I did a google search for the exact same question asked I mostly got a bunch of results about “snowflake generation”, “safe spaces”, “culture wars”, and the like.

[lostinidlewonder]

One learns to write it correctly in google, if you searched "music pedal marking snowflake" you would get the result immediately. If you write something obscure and less technical like "So what is the snowflake thing right beside the"Ped" thing" then of course you are going to get bad results. Learning to write in a more understandable manner is a good skill to practice. It doesn't take a huge IQ to rephrase what you are looking for.

[klavieronin]

Still, I guess some people probably prefer the interaction with real people rather than an algorithm.

[lostinidlewonder]

Google search also connects you to real people who have put that information already on the web for you to discover. I guess some people want others to regurtitate info that is already out there, also if one is actually curious about an answer they should be interest to knowing ways to find it quicker rather than rely on others to spoon feed it to them and not know if it is reliable info or not.

[klavieronin]

Google search also connects you to real people who have put that information already on the web for you to discover.

But I feel like that is about as close to “interacting” with someone as looking something up in an encyclopaedia. I mean, it’s not really the same as having a conversation with someone, is it?

[lostinidlewonder]

It is taking responsibility for your own education. Don't you realize that on the internet people give all sorts of WRONG answers? Are you simply going to believe a stranger all the time without having the facility to fact check? Not a good situation to put yourself in.

[klavieronin]

Don't you realize that on the internet people give all sorts of WRONG answers?

Exactly! So how is searching google supposed to be any more reliable than asking on a forum of dedicated pianists, piano enthusiasts, and piano teachers?

[lostinidlewonder]

This place is not void of wrong information. It is simply logical that to have the facility to fact check with multiple sources is a very strong way to get reliable information. The question asked is very easy and can be easily google searched and verified from multiple sources, it does not require highly specialized knowledge in any case.

[klavieronin]

Sure, of course you could do multiple google searches until you find suitable phrasing, then cross reference the results to make sure the information is consistent and then check to make sure that the sources are reputable. That is definitely one option.

[klavieronin]

Does it bother you when people ask basic questions like that on this forum?