I swear I will give up but I don’t understand why I am the one who is being warned. I am the one who is in tears right now because I thought I could do some good. No problem, I will no longer post.
May I take this up in an e-mail? I don’t see how I hijacjcked the thread. I posted a lyric to a song that was relevant to the OP. Other posters seemed to have it in for me. May I say , you Marley seem to have it in for me too. I’m at a loss here. What have I done wrong? I posted a lyric from a song that was the subject of the OP. Help me out here.
Macheath is his surname. Mackie is his nickname. Messer = Knife so Mackie Messer ~ Mack the Knife and refers to his weapon of choice. We don’t know his first name. Gay doesn’t seem to have given him one.
Sokath! His eyes open!
Go ahead and send me a PM. Meanwhile everybody else is to drop this and get back to anything related to the actual song.
I like Ella Fitzgerald’s live in Berlin where she forgets the lyrics. 
Speaking of, I’m rather fond of Lyle Lovett’s cover/version of the song which is titled “Moritat” (from the closing credits of the movie Quiz Show).
I understand now the trouble was of the use of the word “standard”. I don’t even remember using the word but I apologioze for any misunderstanding. I merely tried to quote a lyriic that I am very familiar with.
I love musicals and I love music so please forgive me me if I get glassy eyed from too much music.
Sure thing, Abby. No worries.
And I think it should be “die trägt er…”
Fuck this shit, I don’t know why I’m apologiizing. Fuck. let em ban me. I have nothing to apologize for.
Get help.
Mirab. His sails unfurled.
Abby_Emma_Sasha: I very VERY strongly urge that you take a break from posting for a few days. If you want to discuss this in PM or email with Marley or myself, that’s fine, but your comments here are erratic and incomprehensible. You say you are in tears, and now you are obviously extremely pissed off, and it looks to me like this is over nothing. Again, I urge you to calm down.
You may NOT post to this thread again, until there is some behind-the-scenes resolution.
And she won a Grammy for that! For mucking it up and then ad-libbing!
Ah, but she is the Queen of Scat.
Shaka! When the walls fell!
Personally, I always liked Nick Cave’s interpretation (vid link); he brings a kind of intensity to the song that I think is well suited to the subject matter. It’s on a collection called September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill (soundtrack to the concert film of the same name), which is well worth getting, containing contributions by Lou Reed, Elvis Costello, PJ Harvey, Bert Brecht himself, and William S. Burroughs reciting What Keeps Mankind Alive.
Kadir beneath Mo Moteh.
Chenza at court. The court of silence.
Kiazi’s children, their faces wet.
Kiteo, his eyes closed.
CMC fnord!
OK, can anybody tell me why that’s so popular all of a sudden? I mean, I know it comes from a TNG episode, and I always thought the concept was a pretty original one, but lately, it seems to crop up in about every other thread I visit. Has this become a meme recently?
I have no clue!
But it’s my favorite TNG episode and since one’s opportunities to speak Tamarian are so few and far between they must be jumped on with great vigor.
CMC fnord!
Sadly, Raphael Carter’s Darmok Dictionary has gone dark.