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The Dual Wielding Ranger: How Aragorn, Drizzt, and Dual-Wielding Led to the Ranger's Loss of Identity
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<blockquote data-quote="Xetheral" data-source="post: 8248174" data-attributes="member: 6802765"><p>The more I look into various dictionaries, the more conflicting information I'm seeing about what "critique" actually means. It feels a little surreal, since I thought I had a good understanding of the word.</p><p></p><p>Most dictionaries seem to restrict "critique" to a detailed analysis, so a bare "I don't like it" without further analysis indeed wouldn't qualify, but "I don't like it, and here's why... " when combined with a subsequent analysis would qualify as a design critique.</p><p></p><p>By contrast, other dictionaries require a "critique" to be written, which would make all of the numerous uses of the phrase "oral critique" into oxymorons. So, according to these dictionaries, a forum post might qualify as a critique, but the same analysis presented at a lecture or in discussion would not. (One lists "essay" as a synonym, suggesting that "critique" can refer to the written work containing the analysis, rather than the analysis itself.)</p><p></p><p>None of the dictionaries I've seen appear to allow for the (in my experience) common usage of "critique" as "an item of criticism" even though that's common enough to appear near the top of the Wikipedia page on Criticism. So, at least for now, the phrase "I have a few critiques" appears to be non-standard usage no matter which dictionary one goes by (unless you actually have multiple detailed analyses and/or critical essays on hand).</p><p></p><p>I did not realize I was kicking a lexicographical hornets nest when I asked my question!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Xetheral, post: 8248174, member: 6802765"] The more I look into various dictionaries, the more conflicting information I'm seeing about what "critique" actually means. It feels a little surreal, since I thought I had a good understanding of the word. Most dictionaries seem to restrict "critique" to a detailed analysis, so a bare "I don't like it" without further analysis indeed wouldn't qualify, but "I don't like it, and here's why... " when combined with a subsequent analysis would qualify as a design critique. By contrast, other dictionaries require a "critique" to be written, which would make all of the numerous uses of the phrase "oral critique" into oxymorons. So, according to these dictionaries, a forum post might qualify as a critique, but the same analysis presented at a lecture or in discussion would not. (One lists "essay" as a synonym, suggesting that "critique" can refer to the written work containing the analysis, rather than the analysis itself.) None of the dictionaries I've seen appear to allow for the (in my experience) common usage of "critique" as "an item of criticism" even though that's common enough to appear near the top of the Wikipedia page on Criticism. So, at least for now, the phrase "I have a few critiques" appears to be non-standard usage no matter which dictionary one goes by (unless you actually have multiple detailed analyses and/or critical essays on hand). I did not realize I was kicking a lexicographical hornets nest when I asked my question! [/QUOTE]
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