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Please can we retire the use of “sigh”?
There may be corners of the internet where children gather in which this hateful locution is acceptable currency, but here among adults it is not merely discourteous, it is patently insulting.
Worst of all it makes the user sound like a hormone-addled teenager hunched over his unhealthily sticky keyboard.
Ditto “facepalm”.
I would hope we can do better than this.
There may well be times when we need to question the wisdom of our peers with a more than usually pronounced acerbity, but let us aim to use the language of Swift and Wilde rather than the debased currency of Facebook and 4Chan.
Simon Ubsdell
tokyo productions
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…sorry, I had to do it.
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Sigh
Huff
facepalm (what the hell is facepalm)
OMG
LOL
eat mehow about “if Apple doesn’t come out with a new Mac Pro, the entire community of Creative Cow will come out and kill
Tim Cooke” –
is that better than Sigh ?
Can I pay for you plane ticket to participate in this event ?Bob Zelin
“sigh”Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
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[Simon Ubsdell] “let us aim to use the language of Swift and Wilde rather than the debased currency of Facebook and 4Chan”
FIFU
“let us aim to use the language of cummings (ee) and carroll..,”yo jabberwoks. so tired of editing bestly. goatopulous?
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meh
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
(That Johnson chap.)
Simon Ubsdell
tokyo productions
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Decades ago, when I was working with the National Speakers Association more than one “think outside the box” speaker featured this famous story so it seems appropriate to go all “ODE MODE” to celebrate it in this thread!
I”m guessing the hero probably spoke appropriately to his culture, personal milieu and times as well.Nietzsche is peachy and Kant can rant.
but regarding your thesis
the evidence’s scant.Those architects eyeing the building
in lore
would just think that janitor
being a boreTheir focus on stresses
disruptions and such
A new ELEVTOR?
the cost is TOO MUCH!But he muttered so softly
their chat to deride…
just put the dam elevator
on the OUTSIDE…(fun break – back to work now!)
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Alas, I fear that as long as verbosity and tortured allegory are made to stand in for wit and rhetorical rigor, the sigh, the eye roll, and their several unwashed and vulgar cousins will continue to plague us.
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[Jeff Markgraf] “Alas, I fear that as long as verbosity and tortured allegory are made to stand in for wit and rhetorical rigor, the sigh, the eye roll, and their several unwashed and vulgar cousins will continue to plague us.”
You see?
Now we’re cooking!
(Though I’m not sure that you have entirely grasped what an allegory is.)
Simon Ubsdell
tokyo productions
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But I forgot to put “le” in front (to make it sound French, you know). ???? ???? ????
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