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Re: Plaintive Gesture
« Reply #30 on: April 22, 2013, 12:44:05 am »
Quote from: Loud Whispers on April 21, 2013, 04:49:55 pm
Quote from: mross on April 21, 2013, 01:29:48 pm
Incorrect.
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Re: Plaintive Gesture
« Reply #31 on: April 22, 2013, 08:08:33 am »
Nothing to do with it being an objectively terrible word.
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Re: Plaintive Gesture
« Reply #32 on: April 22, 2013, 10:59:14 am »
>>  objectively

I think there's another word you should look up ^^
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Re: Plaintive Gesture
« Reply #33 on: April 22, 2013, 11:17:57 am »
Quote from: mross on April 22, 2013, 08:08:33 am
Nothing to do with it being an objectively terrible word.
Oh, I'm not going to fall for this bait of yours, ruseman.
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Re: Plaintive Gesture
« Reply #34 on: April 22, 2013, 05:31:27 pm »
Quote from: mross on April 22, 2013, 08:08:33 am
Nothing to do with it being an objectively terrible word.

Quote from: Putnam on April 21, 2013, 01:35:47 pm
Your opinion is not fact.
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Re: Plaintive Gesture
« Reply #35 on: April 22, 2013, 05:55:41 pm »
Quote from: mross on April 22, 2013, 08:08:33 am
Nothing to do with it being an objectively terrible word.
The intrinsic contradiction! It BURNS!!!
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Re: Plaintive Gesture
« Reply #36 on: April 22, 2013, 06:12:27 pm »
I thought plaintive meant passive as well.
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Re: Plaintive Gesture
« Reply #37 on: April 22, 2013, 06:29:14 pm »
I don't know if it's because I read a lot as a child or what, but I don't really visualize these kind of things.  However, it seems to me that the meaning here would be easy to pick up in context.  If x was killed by y, x would probably not be celebrating, at the least.  Objectively.
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Re: Plaintive Gesture
« Reply #38 on: April 22, 2013, 06:41:52 pm »
Quote from: Swiftling on April 19, 2013, 02:21:38 am
Quote from: Furtuka on April 19, 2013, 01:29:34 am
Huh. And here I was assuming that it meant they were flipping someone off! This completely changes the context for me ._.

Thats exactly what I thought too. All those engravings make sense now...
How and why do so many people have this idea?
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Re: Plaintive Gesture
« Reply #39 on: April 22, 2013, 06:48:21 pm »
Quote from: Graknorke on April 22, 2013, 06:41:52 pm
Quote from: Swiftling on April 19, 2013, 02:21:38 am
Quote from: Furtuka on April 19, 2013, 01:29:34 am
Huh. And here I was assuming that it meant they were flipping someone off! This completely changes the context for me ._.
Thats exactly what I thought too. All those engravings make sense now...
How and why do so many people have this idea?
Agreed. What gave you guys the idea that this meant flipping someone off?
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Re: Plaintive Gesture
« Reply #40 on: April 22, 2013, 06:49:09 pm »
I'm guessing that's just what people automatically associate the word "gesture" with.
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Re: Plaintive Gesture
« Reply #41 on: April 22, 2013, 08:02:49 pm »
Quote from: Putnam on April 22, 2013, 05:31:27 pm
Quote from: mross on April 22, 2013, 08:08:33 am
Nothing to do with it being an objectively terrible word.

Quote from: Putnam on April 21, 2013, 01:35:47 pm
Your opinion is not fact.

Opinion has nothing to do with it.
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Re: Plaintive Gesture
« Reply #42 on: April 22, 2013, 08:08:11 pm »
Quote from: smakemupagus on April 22, 2013, 10:59:14 am
>>  objectively

I think there's another word you should look up ^^

Quote from: The Dictionary
Having actual existence or reality.

Uninfluenced by emotions or personal prejudices.

Based on observable phenomena.

Nope, used accurately.
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Re: Plaintive Gesture
« Reply #43 on: April 22, 2013, 08:20:55 pm »
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Re: Plaintive Gesture
« Reply #44 on: April 22, 2013, 08:31:37 pm »
Link all you want. A word's quality is independent of the observer.
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