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| Thread ID: 87459 | 2008-02-21 22:30:00 | What's your take on clichés? | Roscoe (6288) | PC World Chat |
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| 642591 | 2008-02-22 09:17:00 | lol, I wasnt aiming at anyone in particular, I thought it was funny how we are ...not complaining...yet, but getting there, it's kind of a winless war. If a guitar G string is because its in the key of 'g', would i need a 'g' to be the key to get a g string off .... hmm I shall stop right there:lol: How do you play an air???:confused: |
rob_on_guitar (4196) | ||
| 642592 | 2008-02-22 09:24:00 | On a wind instrument;) (And that does not include beans) |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 642593 | 2008-02-22 11:20:00 | lol, I wasnt aiming at anyone in particular, I thought it was funny how we are ...not complaining...yet, but getting there, it's kind of a winless war. If a guitar G string is because its in the key of 'g', would i need a 'g' to be the key to get a g string off .... hmm I shall stop right there:lol: How do you play an air???:confused: www.8notes.com Just to help you out. :help: |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 642594 | 2008-02-22 11:27:00 | No wonder it makes no sense...17th century... | rob_on_guitar (4196) | ||
| 642595 | 2008-02-22 20:17:00 | No wonder it makes no sense...17th century... People still play and enjoy music from that era though. I wonder how much of the music we came up with from 2000-2008 will still be enjoyed in another 288 years. To get back on topic. Trite sayings will always be with us and there is no real way to avoid them other than becoming a hermit. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 642596 | 2008-02-22 21:19:00 | [/quote]Roscoe, I think you are correct in some ways but how is the written and spoken language interpreted by the other person? Let us not forget body language for example. If I said to your face, "You are a bastard." then that term would indicate you were conceived before your mother and father were married if I was totally serious. Please note that I am not thinking that or implying that. On the other hand that same term in Australia is used as a term of endearment but you would have to say it with a smile. As I believe I have mentioned before. LANGUAGE is there to COMMUNICATE. I have been guilty of telling untruths in the past. I found out the hard way to tell lies. Wife walks in with a new dress and says,"Do you like it?" My advice on that is to prevaricate unless you do like the dress.[/QUOTE] Sweep: about "You are a bastard," I have heard it many times in Sydney, and yes you might get away with that if you said it with a grin, but you have to know the "bastard" quite well otherwise you could be in trouble! Certainly, language is to communicate, but as you can see from some of what goes on here in F1 that the written word does not always communicate the way you meant. "You bastard" is a classic example. Hard to write a tone of voice and a grin. And yes, I have learned over the years how to fib to the better half. I too equivocate. The boss most probably knows that I do but says nothing.:D |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 642597 | 2008-02-22 22:18:00 | >Sweep: about "You are a bastard," I have heard it many times in Sydney, and yes you might get away with that if you said it with a grin, but you have to know the "bastard" quite well otherwise you could be in trouble! Certainly, language is to communicate, but as you can see from some of what goes on here in F1 that the written word does not always communicate the way you meant. "You bastard" is a classic example. Hard to write a tone of voice and a grin. And yes, I have learned over the years how to fib to the better half. I too equivocate. The boss most probably knows that I do but says nothing.:D< In Sydney some time back I was living in Terrey Hills and joined up with the RSL at Monavale (Australian equivalent of the RSA). At that time I joined another organisation:- www.abc.net.au It was Pittwater RSL. We raised funds for charity BTW. I do not have my card anymore but maybe we collectively helped someone sometime. Better to try rather than not in my opinion. May I ask what is the difference between a "fib" , "lie" ,"white lie", "untruth", "prevaricate" and we could go on regarding nuances of languauge. I still have to come back to how the words are spoken or written and take account of context or other words contained in the same sentence, paragraph, chapter or book. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 642598 | 2008-02-22 23:13:00 | May I ask what is the difference between a "fib" , "lie" ,"white lie", "untruth", "prevaricate" and we could go on regarding nuances of languauge. Not a lot as I am certain you are aware, but I think that is the beauty of english - there are a few words that are similar but have different shades of meaning. If you "lie" you are despicable. If you "fib" that's not so bad in a similar way to "untruth." A "white lie" is a justification - you may have thought that you were doing that for someone's good and to prevaricate or equivocate is also similar but just puts you up in the more "educated" bracket where you know a few more big words than some others. One word that was not contained in my diatribe is "fake." Anything false in any way, these days, is "fake," which is a pity. Once again we have all these lovely words that have different shades of meaning. If I said "counterfeit" you could be fairly certain I was talking about money, "imitate" often means to mimic, "forge" usually refers to documents, etc, but "let's not try and work our grey matter too hard," they seem to say, "Just tell them it's fake." :horrified |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 642599 | 2008-02-23 09:05:00 | Not a lot as I am certain you are aware, but I think that is the beauty of english - there are a few words that are similar but have different shades of meaning. If you "lie" you are despicable. If you "fib" that's not so bad in a similar way to "untruth." A "white lie" is a justification - you may have thought that you were doing that for someone's good and to prevaricate or equivocate is also similar but just puts you up in the more "educated" bracket where you know a few more big words than some others. One word that was not contained in my diatribe is "fake." Anything false in any way, these days, is "fake," which is a pity. Once again we have all these lovely words that have different shades of meaning. If I said "counterfeit" you could be fairly certain I was talking about money, "imitate" often means to mimic, "forge" usually refers to documents, etc, but "let's not try and work our grey matter too hard," they seem to say, "Just tell them it's fake." :horrified Well Roscoe, Sometimes getting information from a person is like getting "blood out of a stone". Just another cliché for you to enjoy. Now we all know that stones do not contain blood vessels. Well at least *I* think that but other people may differ and that is their right. Some people have different beliefs to my norm and that is also their right. A "word" out of context means nothing. I forgot to mention perjury which is a lie under oath. I also forgot to mention misleading which is not a lie but does not tell the whole truth as certain advertisements would have the public believe. PressF1 is a computer help forum. In the event I see a post that says," My computer is broken!" should I immediately assume the said equipment fell on the floor, tossed out a window or was attacked with a hammer? Should I think that the said computer did the suicide thing because it did not feel happy running any version of Windows? |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 642600 | 2008-02-23 19:24:00 | Tee Hee! (www.imagef1.net.nz) | johcar (6283) | ||
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