Quote from a game:
She was described as a free spirit, with a nihilistic love of danger.
Emphasis mine.
I...um...okay then! For some reason, stuff like this really makes me giggle.
Anyone else got any amusing misused words? Or wants to debate whether that's a totally valid use of the word?
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All I can picture is a Emo-type skydiving into a shark tank with a blank expression on their face, giving everyone the finger as they do...
So, no—it doesn't quite work.
I misuse words all the time and no one's ever verticled my troubadour.
I am still horrible at using the three there's.
I mean I guess they're going for a "love of danger" (read: recklessness, lack of concern for consequences?) typical of nihilists, but... it doesn't make sense even then because it's not like there's anything in nihilism that says "ok go out and harm yourself now."
When I first read the phrase I was like "okay sure that's kinda dumb but hardly deserving of a blog" but the more I read it... the less sense it makes...
Reminds me of this dude
I'm imagining the German nihilists from The Big Lebowski. "Ve are nihilists. Ve believe in nussink. Ve live for danger!"
What kind of nihilists are they, indeed...
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There: Location. "There they are."
Their: Plural possessive. "They've got their rocket sled."
They're: Contraction of "they are." "They're going to have so much fun!"
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Maud in her anarcho-goth teenage phase.
3401104 Yeah, they need a bit more going on. Perhaps they're idly thumbing through some exceptionally depressing Russian novels to skim too.
3401107 Little of column A and a little of column B if I'm honest.
3401109 I can't decide whether to laugh or twitch >.<
3401132 That's basically what happened to me. The more I read it, the more it amused and bemused me.
3401192 That always kinda threw me too. I actually first learned of Nihilism from a really really strange Rainbow Brite styled noir fic...I wonder if I can still find it.
3401233 Oh jesus, though for her I more imagine spelunking without a gps or somesuch.
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To be fair, that was Jackie Treehorn's men. They weren't nihilists; they were just morons.
Use "nihilist" in a sentence.
"I enjoyed BronyCon very much, except for that time the nihilists broke into my room while I was taking a bath and tried to drop ferret in the tub."
My pet peeve is the use of "decadent" as if it were a synonym for "luxurious." Its literal meaning is "fallen away," as in "fallen away from the best," which is what the Decadent Movement claimed to be. Of course the Decadents' response to this fallen state was to live lives of excess and self-indulgence, which gives the word its current implications.
But, by original definition, "decadent" chocolates are chocolates that aren't as good as they used to be. I wonder if Godiva knows that (and don't get me started on "Godiva" being used in that context).
I'm kinda with 3401132 in that I can see what they were going for, namely something like "a disregard for personal safety fueled by the belief that nothing matters", but that's a little like saying "she read the dictionary entry for the word 'all' and became omniscient" because omniscient is all-knowing. The canonical meaning of the word gets in the way of the constructed meaning of the word.
What game was this in?
So, one of these, right?
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Ooooh, what game?
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Wouldn't that just be an example of how language changes over time?
3401364 I can see how that would confuse things, though I'm with blue in that you could see it as an example of language changing over time.
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The game is called Contradiction. I was watching Jesse and Dodger play it.
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Exactly!
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You know people forget that in addition to being a Christian Apologist and children's author, C.S. Lewis was a college professor. Of English. At Oxford. So he kinda had his chops.
And one of his particular studies was how certain English words changed their meanings in the 1600's and 1700's. One such word was wit, which started out meaning "poetic inspiration" but came to mean "a facility with cutting remarks." And that change took place within one man's lifetime, that man being Doctor Johnson who railed against and lamented, but ultimately resigned himself to it.
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Ooooh.
That's, uh...quite a fast change.
Well, if "danger" is a feeling meant to cause people to run away from things that can kill them, and if someone believes that human life isn't inherently valuable or meaningful, then they can indeed have a nihilistic love of danger.
The usage of "nihilistic" implies it's being used as a synonym of "hedonist", in the sense that she rejects traditional values as artificial and does what she wants. It's not technically wrong, but it's not very clear, either.
I had to think on this for a while but:
Any and all uses of "ghetto blaster"
That sounds like a shoulder-mounted ray gun weilded exclusively by members of an urban renewal committee.