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Post by perrykneeham on Feb 19, 2023 9:05:16 GMT
Does Mids work for Justin Trudeau?
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Post by perrykneeham on Mar 11, 2023 9:26:47 GMT
Performative.
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Post by ootlg on Mar 11, 2023 11:17:02 GMT
Wow. It's become big in France, pronounced waouh, and I hate it. It's lazy in the extreme. Another word overused on British radio phone-ins is outragious.
f**k me. What a boo boo. Can't even blame spellcheck cos I don't use it.
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Post by flatandy on Mar 11, 2023 12:05:06 GMT
Not “outrageous”?
Nice emphasis on the diphthong in “wow” there.
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Post by flatandy on Mar 11, 2023 12:09:10 GMT
True. But there are so many things done as performance these days rather than because people would choose to do them without an audience. Across all kinds of fields. It overused because we, as society, have become a society of performance and need something to describe it. Maybe we always were? All the deference to class, and all centuries of manners and patriotism and religion and so on. Maybe nobody believed in any of that sh*t either but needed to be seen as doing the right thing and it was all a performance to not feel shame from the judgement of fellow humans? But it feels like it’s happening even more now. |
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Post by ootlg on Mar 11, 2023 14:04:38 GMT
Probably why we have social mores, secondary signalling of hidden intent. It's tribal.
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Post by mids on Mar 11, 2023 14:09:59 GMT
Waouh sounds like spewing.
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Post by ootlg on Mar 11, 2023 14:32:50 GMT
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Post by mids on Mar 24, 2023 6:51:39 GMT
Not a word but what's with those massive, comically huge glasses I keep seeing people wearing. They look ridiculous, take them off.
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Post by ootlg on Mar 24, 2023 7:11:03 GMT
Massive.
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Post by mids on Mar 24, 2023 7:51:56 GMT
Massif.
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Post by mids on Mar 24, 2023 9:20:48 GMT
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Post by perrykneeham on Mar 24, 2023 9:22:28 GMT
True. But there are so many things done as performance these days rather than because people would choose to do them without an audience. Across all kinds of fields. It overused because we, as society, have become a society of performance and need something to describe it. Maybe we always were? All the deference to class, and all centuries of manners and patriotism and religion and so on. Maybe nobody believed in any of that sh*t either but needed to be seen as doing the right thing and it was all a performance to not feel shame from the judgement of fellow humans? But it feels like it’s happening even more now. That's fair enough. I posted this in a self-deprecating reference to the fact that I had just used the word on another thread and felt dirty. |
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Post by perrykneeham on Mar 24, 2023 9:25:50 GMT
Massive's okay, I think. It describes something exceedingly large. The characteristic of outsized glasses is that they are exceedingly large. "Incredibly" drives me nuts. It is almost always used to describe something not especially remarkable and capable of being believed in. "Very" is probably better, "extremely" at a push. |
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Post by ootlg on Mar 24, 2023 10:09:01 GMT
I'm influenced (another example?) by the ubiquitous use of the word when reporting heart attacks of public opinion.
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Post by ootlg on Mar 24, 2023 10:09:12 GMT
influencer
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Post by Repat Van on Mar 24, 2023 13:04:41 GMT
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Post by mids on Mar 24, 2023 13:11:59 GMT
Apart from her glasses, tattoo, eyelashes and earrings. Her mouth looks a bit weird too. In fact, are we sure this is actually a woman?
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Post by flatandy on Mar 24, 2023 13:31:28 GMT
The giant glasses conceal the ridiculous modern eyebrow shapes, I suppose.
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Post by mids on Mar 24, 2023 13:44:21 GMT
That's a good point. It's probably their main purpose.
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