Re:Dystopia Is What Results from the Attempt to Create Utopia
by sigstoat on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @06:35PM
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> If you mean "The world sucks" then say that instead of saying "the world is fallen".
If you mean that you don't like the author's choice of words, then that that instead of saying "the entire article [is] essentially meaningless".
> Fallen has a very specific meaning
Which of the four definitions in WordNet, or dozens of other possible dictionary meanings, is that very specific meaning?
> and using it as a poetic slush word is enough to make me not take the OP seriously.
"Slush" has a very specific meaning, involving partially frozen materials. I feel that your use of it here has rendered your entire comment essentially meaningless.
If you mean that you don't like the author's choice of words, then that that instead of saying "the entire article [is] essentially meaningless".
> Fallen has a very specific meaning
Which of the four definitions in WordNet, or dozens of other possible dictionary meanings, is that very specific meaning?
> and using it as a poetic slush word is enough to make me not take the OP seriously.
"Slush" has a very specific meaning, involving partially frozen materials. I feel that your use of it here has rendered your entire comment essentially meaningless.