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This appears to be a crescendo of an internal argument that took place with Sam on a couple of instances.
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A real grammatical pet peeve of mine, and most musicians':
Increasingly we see and hear 'crescendo' completely misused when what is meant is 'climax.' Crescendo 'increase' is a direction to add more volume or get louder- it is the process of getting 'bigger' which leads up to a climax: NOT the climax itself. Its opposite is decrescendo or diminuendo- getting softer.
The English cognate, crescent, was originally an adjective which by common use in the phrase 'crescent (waxing) moon' came to be a noun for the shape itself.