Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Ok. I definitely feel like I am being trolled now, or maybe I accidentally slipped into a parallel universe where words have different meanings.

Never forget that a small but real percentage of people online are arguing in bad faith.

 

[Alzrius]

Ok. I definitely feel like I am being trolled now, or maybe I accidentally slipped into a parallel universe where words have different meanings.

There seem to be a lot of people, particularly lately, who insist that words don't mean what they're normally understood to mean (and if asked why, they'll make a blithe reference to "context").

 

[Gradine]

 

[Gradine]

Elsewhere:

 

[prabe]

There seem to be a lot of people, particularly lately, who insist that words don't mean what they're normally understood to mean (and if asked why, they'll make a blithe reference to "context").

I suspect A) at least some people are making descriptivist/prescriptivist noises and B) that's not exactly (or maybe even at all) what's really going on. (What's really going on is more like something out of Carroll, probably.)

 

[Reynard]

(as seen on Facebook)
Who in the WORLD would name a kids' sports team the WARHAWKS? I can't even...

 

[trappedslider]

sigh and that's why i said what i said on page 3 makes a note for the future

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

We call that universe "The Forge".

“The Forge” and Fargo are not that far apart…

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

(as seen on Facebook)
Who in the WORLD would name a kids' sports team the WARHAWKS? I can't even...

IME, kids sports teams often mimic pro team names or are “cool” and “aggressive”.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Also, perhaps most importantly, IMO, ideas are the easy part. Getting off your butt and making something of them is the hard part.

As someone who creates in a lot of different contexts, THIS.

I have at least a dozen unused campaigns, fully planned recipe concepts I haven’t tried (like frushi ), sketchbooks full of jewelry designs going back 30+ years, clothing designs that go back to the 1980s, half-finished canvases and other paintings, outlines and partial starts on short stories & novels, and a few dozen musical compositions I haven’t tried neither recorded or transcribed to paper as tablature or standard sheet music notation.

Very little of what I’ve created is in a permanent, tangible copyrighted form.