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WCDT 23-27 November 2015 (Strips 3096-3100)
Storel:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 27 Nov 2015, 05:30 ---
--- Quote from: Tova on 26 Nov 2015, 22:11 ---
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 26 Nov 2015, 20:59 ---Irreplaced?
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Perfectly cromulent.
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I'm not finding it anywhere. Does it just mean "not replaced"?
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If something is replaceable, it is something that can be replaced.
If something is irreplaceable, it is something that can be irreplaced. 8-)
chaospersonified:
--- Quote from: Storel on 29 Nov 2015, 02:48 ---
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 27 Nov 2015, 05:30 ---
--- Quote from: Tova on 26 Nov 2015, 22:11 ---
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 26 Nov 2015, 20:59 ---Irreplaced?
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Perfectly cromulent.
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I'm not finding it anywhere. Does it just mean "not replaced"?
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If something is irreplaceable, it is something that can be irreplaced. 8-)
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But... No... That... That is nonsensical, you cannot take a negative and verb it... It is like unringing a bell...
Tova:
Okay, I'll advocate for the devil... :evil:
It's a passive verb rather than an active one.
It's of course silly to say "I am unringing the bell."
But it's fine to say "the bell remains unrung" (i.e. no-one has rung it).
It would have been correct to say that Faye is unreplaced, of course... but irreplaced carried the extra amusing connotation that she is irreplaceable at CoD.
I thought it an amusing, apt, and concise observation... hence my comment at the time that the usage was cromulent. :)
Sullivan:
This turned up in my Facebook feed, not regarding May's comment in 3098. But it should have been...
Tova:
--- Quote from: SubaruStephen on 25 Nov 2015, 20:32 ---
--- Quote from: Akima on 25 Nov 2015, 16:29 ---
--- Quote from: Mr. Doctor on 25 Nov 2015, 14:11 ---Why is the manbun or whatever people want to call it so hated?
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Meh... It's just the "Nobody should live their lives differently from the way I do" reaction. Refer to people's negative reactions to "long haired hippies" or mullets. I think there's an element of racism too, since men wearing long hair in buns has been, and still is, much more common outside Western cultures.
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[nitpick ] Those are top-knots, not man-buns (/nitpick]
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I only just noticed (possibly this is old news, or I may even be imagining things) that the comic has changed to say "topknot" instead of "manbun". I have to say that I don't see the difference between the two. Also (and this may appear to contradict my previous statement), I welcome the change.
The currently-trendy "man-" prefix appears to be used these days for one of two purposes.
* To defuse what might otherwise be perceived as some kind of endangerment to one's masculine image (e.g. "man-bag")
* To disparage some thing or phenomenon simply by association with the (presumably unworthy in the discussion's context) male sex (e.g. "mansplaining")The example of "man-bun" probably started as 1, but as people started to make fun of the style, it seems to have slid into 2.
I'm a fan of neither, honestly.
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