It does when you hum with your mouth open.
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How rude!
xhonzi said:
It does when you hum with your mouth open.
Hardly!
Couldn't care less/Could care less.
This is another one of my "words mean things" pet peeves.
IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!
"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005
"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM
"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.
DEUS EX MACHINA
This means when a problem in a story is abruptly resolved by the introduction of a new concept into the story- a new character, idea, superpower, etc.
This term is constantly abused as referring to anything that saves the day. The shot Luke makes to blow up the Death Star isn't a Deus Ex Machina, becuase it's been built up to the entire movie. Gandalf and the Cavalry saving the day in "The Two Towers" is not a Deus Ex Machina because Gandalf left in act two to go find the characters they met in act one, to come back and save the day.
R2 having rockets could be seen as a Deus Ex Machina. R2 fixing the hyperdrive in "ESB" isn't, because the audience has known for some that R2 knows about the hyperdrive.
This is especially annoying when the meaning is flipped completely, and used to refer to the beginning of a story. I've heard "That the droids end up in the hands of Luke is such a Deus Ex Machina."
Would a perfect example be Batman (1960's), and his utility belt?
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Chewtobacca said:
TV's Frink said:
usage Farther and further have been used more or less interchangeably throughout most of their history, but currently they are showing signs of diverging.
Further is also used as a sentence modifier <further, the workshop participants were scarcely optimistic — L. B. Mayhew>, but farther is not. A polarizing process appears to be taking place in their adjective use.
Yes; this is true, but I am determined to resist attempts to polarise time-honoured variant spellings.
The rest is all double Dutch to me. :-)
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I'd say that definitely is the case with the ol' utility belt.
Davnes007 said:
Would a perfect example be Batman (1960's), and his utility belt?
Beyond perfect.
xhonzi said:
Couldn't care less/Could care less.
This is another one of my "words mean things" pet peeves.
Couldn't agree more, every time I see someone write "I could care less" they always mean "I couldn't care less", I just wish people would think about what they write.
I couldn't care less about x - means you are unable to care less than you do about x, there is nothing that you could possibly care less about.
I could care less about x - means there are things you could care less about than x, but this is practically meaningless, it just means you care about x to some unspecified extent, it's not the least cared about thing, it could be the most but then you should say "I couldn't care more", so really it is just at some unspecified midpoint in your range of ability to care.
TheBoost said:
Beyond perfect.
Hey, I though Words Mean Things. So what does that mean?
TV's Frink said:
TheBoost said:
Beyond perfect.
Hey, I though Words Mean Things. So what does that mean?
Words mean things, though.
Lazy Words, were Lazy.
LOL
The one that absolutely drives me up the wall is when people preface anything with "quote, unquote"
TheBoost said:
Davnes007 said:
Would a perfect example be Batman (1960's), and his utility belt?
Beyond perfect.
I remember one episode in which Batman and Robin are dropped into a vat of sharks. Luckily Batman has a large canisterof Shark Repellent attached to his utility belt - just in case.
War does not make one great.
Max_Rebo said:
xhonzi said:
Couldn't care less/Could care less.
This is another one of my "words mean things" pet peeves.
Couldn't agree more, every time I see someone write "I could care less" they always mean "I couldn't care less", I just wish people would think about what they write.
I couldn't care less about x - means you are unable to care less than you do about x, there is nothing that you could possibly care less about.
I could care less about x - means there are things you could care less about than x, but this is practically meaningless, it just means you care about x to some unspecified extent, it's not the least cared about thing, it could be the most but then you should say "I couldn't care more", so really it is just at some unspecified midpoint in your range of ability to care.
This irritates me as well.... unfortunately lots of people on ot.com do it.
War does not make one great.
Yoda Is Your Father said:
Max_Rebo said:
xhonzi said:
Couldn't care less/Could care less.
This is another one of my "words mean things" pet peeves.
Couldn't agree more, every time I see someone write "I could care less" they always mean "I couldn't care less", I just wish people would think about what they write.
I couldn't care less about x - means you are unable to care less than you do about x, there is nothing that you could possibly care less about.
I could care less about x - means there are things you could care less about than x, but this is practically meaningless, it just means you care about x to some unspecified extent, it's not the least cared about thing, it could be the most but then you should say "I couldn't care more", so really it is just at some unspecified midpoint in your range of ability to care.
This irritates me as well.... unfortunately lots of people on ot.com do it.
I'm just happy when there isn't a lot of "o rly u r rite"
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Yoda Is Your Father said:
TheBoost said:
Davnes007 said:
Would a perfect example be Batman (1960's), and his utility belt?
Beyond perfect.
I remember one episode in which Batman and Robin are dropped into a vat of sharks. Luckily Batman has a large canisterof Shark Repellent attached to his utility belt - just in case.
Gasp! How could you be more wrong, YIYF? First of all, this isn't an episode. This is the iconic movie, wherein Robin, in the Batcopter, flies Batman, who's on a ladder, out over the ocean to catch up to a passing yacht... which suddenly disappears. This leaves Batman floundering in the water, and when he's pulled back up, an angry shark is attached to his leg. Luckily, Robin has a can of Shark-Repellant Bat Spray in the Batcopter and lowers it down to Batman who sprays the shark, which falls back into the water and... explodes.
When you write it your way, it just sounds silly!
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Can you imagine that scene if Robin had accidentally grabbed the Manta-Ray-Repellant or the Dolphin Repellant? All of that time he spends hooking his legs into the ladder so he can bend over backwards to hand over the aerosol would have been for not!
IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!
"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005
"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM
"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.
xhonzi said:
All of that time he spends hooking his legs into the ladder so he can bend over backwards to hand over the aerosol would have been for not!
I am naught believing this! What a country!
Man, and in a thread about words meaning things... I have learned my lesson.
IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!
"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005
"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM
"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.
TheBoost said: Gandalf and the Cavalry saving the day in "The Two Towers" is not a Deus Ex Machina because Gandalf left in act two to go find the characters they met in act one, to come back and save the day.
You are correct in your definition of deus ex machina. An example in LOTR would be the Eagles coming to the rescue unlooked for at the end, as they did in The Hobbit.
Here's one that bugs me to no end...
When somebody says "quite the", as in:
"You are quite the talented artist." (with, or without emphasis on 'The').
It should be, IMHO, "You are quite a talented artist."
Am me wrong?...or are I rite?
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