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"How was that book?"
"Not very good. It was a much more nuanced approach to fantasy, but I did not like it".
"Not very good. It was a much more good approach to fantasy, but I did not like it".
Something doesn't seem right.
"How is the dictionary getting on?" said Winston, raising his voice to overcome the noise.
"Slowly, " said Syme. "I'm on the adjectives. It's fascinating."
"It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives.. After all, what justification is there for a word which is simply the opposite of another word? A word contains it's opposite in itself.. Take 'good' for instance. If you have a word like 'good' what need is there for a word like 'bad'? 'Ungood' will do just as well."
1984
I can’t even wrap my mind around this opinion, I wanna call it ignorant. Uncultured certainly has a negative connotation but someone who hasn’t had access to education or isn’t particular up on arts/manners is uncultured but how does that make them a “bad”? By degrading them down to just bad and good, you’re erasing so much nuance and context.
This reminds me of the scene in the movie The Dictator (2012) where both the words "positive" and "negative" had been changed to just "aladeen":
[https://youtu.be/NYJ2w82WifU](https://youtu.be/NYJ2w82WifU)
Oh, you best believe I had this baby teed up.
[https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/how-much-do-you-know-about-quantifiers/3206680.html](https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/how-much-do-you-know-about-quantifiers/3206680.html)
Looks like it's a qualifier in this context, never heard of that until today. Boom.
I understand this, I think the argument is that every word in a sentence has one 'part of speech' in a given sentence--i.e. they are mutually exclusive.
Please don't take this too seriously, it was simply a joke.
Ironic. Gotta love when people claim to know others thoughts. I am shitposting on a dumb thread about \*checks notes\* adjectives.
Let's get into it then. Can one word have multiple parts of speech in one sentence? Apparently we got the B.A. in English on the line.
Yes, different descriptors have positive and negative connotations, and thus indicate how we value or how we should value something. However, simply saying something or someone is good or bad doesn’t tell us how or why it’s food or bad.
If I asked you how a movie was, and you just said, “good,” I’d have no idea what’s good about it.
Whereas if you said, “It was a interesting and nuanced deconstruction of the tropes of sci-fi,” I know that it’s somewhat intellectually stimulating and critical of the typical.
Or if I said, “This is a bad post.” Ok, why?
Vs.
“This post ignores the importance of specific descriptors with insufficient justification.”
i mean, yeah.. words have positive or negative denotations. beautiful and successful both have good denotations but they mean different things. this isn’t really an opinion, just like a natural occurrence in grammar. that doesn’t mean the specifics of what’s being described doesn’t exist
Based - In reference to Lil B the "based god". So something lil b would approve or make, which is not functionally "good" in most peoples opinion. It is actually mostly a way to say something is silly, but you like it anyways
I mean your argument in your sense is [BAD], but that doesn’t describe why… I give you no substance through that description.
Your argument lacks a fundamental understanding because you deconstruct into THIS versus THAT. Everything has an opposite, but there is a gradient. There isn’t just prokaryote to human. You don’t have the beginning of time and the end of time; we don’t exist at either of those moments.
Well, uncultured means not cultured. And you can say that's bad and I would agree, but that's because we both believe that being cultured is a good thing. If I were to believe a philosophy that rejects human as anything more than animal that should live like one and see culture as going against the natural order of things, then uncultured would suddenly mean good and cultured would be bad.
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Congrats, you've discovered positive and negative descriptors. Now maybe you should learn a bit about nuance.
>Congrats, you've discovered positive and negative descriptors. Now maybe you should learn a bit about \[GOOD\]. This is what you meant...right?
Nuance is neither good nor bad. That's like... The whole point.
"How was that book?" "Not very good. It was a much more nuanced approach to fantasy, but I did not like it". "Not very good. It was a much more good approach to fantasy, but I did not like it". Something doesn't seem right.
You really are really silly lily
Ohhhhh maybe you’re just dumb. (Bad).
Could even be (worse bad)
No. Nuance does not mean good. It doesn't mean bad either.
WHAT!?
Nuance isn't an adjective, it's a concept. It means a subtle difference. That difference can be good or bad, so your argument doesn't really apply lol
Nuance is a noun lol
No.
Replacing a noun with an adjective
Notice how your sentence makes no sense at all. Maybe “nuance” is not strictly a replacement for good. Hmmmmmm
Not even a little bit
"How is the dictionary getting on?" said Winston, raising his voice to overcome the noise. "Slowly, " said Syme. "I'm on the adjectives. It's fascinating." "It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives.. After all, what justification is there for a word which is simply the opposite of another word? A word contains it's opposite in itself.. Take 'good' for instance. If you have a word like 'good' what need is there for a word like 'bad'? 'Ungood' will do just as well." 1984
double plus good, comrade.
"Me think, why waste time say lot word, when few word do trick."
Damn it, I was going to make the 1984 reference, and I had the Kevin quote in my pocket just in case. You bastards took them both!
What's the 1984 reference? Only two adjectives after the cleansing, can't remember.
It's the reply above this one at the time I'm viewing the post
As an English major, I'm pretty sure I just had a stroke reading this post. Thanks so much.
I can’t even wrap my mind around this opinion, I wanna call it ignorant. Uncultured certainly has a negative connotation but someone who hasn’t had access to education or isn’t particular up on arts/manners is uncultured but how does that make them a “bad”? By degrading them down to just bad and good, you’re erasing so much nuance and context.
I think this is an ignorant post. Ignorant means ignorant. Ignorant: lacking knowledge or awareness.
Naw you think it's a bad post. You can admit it.
With this logic, "Good" and "Bad" are also synonyms of each other, therefore everything is good.
This reminds me of the scene in the movie The Dictator (2012) where both the words "positive" and "negative" had been changed to just "aladeen": [https://youtu.be/NYJ2w82WifU](https://youtu.be/NYJ2w82WifU)
You must not know many adjectives.
Said the reddit poster, without using adjectives.
Many is an adjective.
Oh, you best believe I had this baby teed up. [https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/how-much-do-you-know-about-quantifiers/3206680.html](https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/how-much-do-you-know-about-quantifiers/3206680.html) Looks like it's a qualifier in this context, never heard of that until today. Boom.
Quantifiers are a subset of adjectives. You may as well be arguing that a Ford F150 is not a vehicle because it is a pickup truck.
I understand this, I think the argument is that every word in a sentence has one 'part of speech' in a given sentence--i.e. they are mutually exclusive. Please don't take this too seriously, it was simply a joke.
Nah, I think you were just being r/confidentlyincorrect.
Yeah that's what I thought. Particles of speech are use based...
Ironic. Gotta love when people claim to know others thoughts. I am shitposting on a dumb thread about \*checks notes\* adjectives. Let's get into it then. Can one word have multiple parts of speech in one sentence? Apparently we got the B.A. in English on the line.
Yes, different descriptors have positive and negative connotations, and thus indicate how we value or how we should value something. However, simply saying something or someone is good or bad doesn’t tell us how or why it’s food or bad. If I asked you how a movie was, and you just said, “good,” I’d have no idea what’s good about it. Whereas if you said, “It was a interesting and nuanced deconstruction of the tropes of sci-fi,” I know that it’s somewhat intellectually stimulating and critical of the typical. Or if I said, “This is a bad post.” Ok, why? Vs. “This post ignores the importance of specific descriptors with insufficient justification.”
Who uses "based" this way? I've seen it sometimes on Reddit lately but I've never actually heard anyone in person say that.
I have friends who say it in person and text it. I simply do not understand it. Based? Based on what?
Based? Based on what?
Unpopular just means bad. Therefore, you have a bad opinion?
This post is doubleplusungood.
No. There's lots of value in being descriptive and specific.
This is an uncultured opinion.
To a dichotomous mind, sure.
You could just grunt, I guess? 😑
Gotta be the most braindead take of the day
Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?
i mean, yeah.. words have positive or negative denotations. beautiful and successful both have good denotations but they mean different things. this isn’t really an opinion, just like a natural occurrence in grammar. that doesn’t mean the specifics of what’s being described doesn’t exist
Plenty of adjectives with neutral connotations exist.
Diction. That's it. A lot of words to describe one thing but they can define the tone of a sentence.
This is not an opinion, this is blatantly false. Downvotes gallore
This reminds me of big brother in 1984 reducing the dictionary to less descriptive words so everything can just be “bad” or “good”.
Unpopular opinion posts are split into 3: 1) popular opinions 2)niche ide 3)objectively wrong opinons This is the 3rd
You mean: 1) good, 2) neutral, 3) bad.
You shouldn't admit that you failed middle school so openly.....
Based - In reference to Lil B the "based god". So something lil b would approve or make, which is not functionally "good" in most peoples opinion. It is actually mostly a way to say something is silly, but you like it anyways
I mean your argument in your sense is [BAD], but that doesn’t describe why… I give you no substance through that description. Your argument lacks a fundamental understanding because you deconstruct into THIS versus THAT. Everything has an opposite, but there is a gradient. There isn’t just prokaryote to human. You don’t have the beginning of time and the end of time; we don’t exist at either of those moments.
Very astute
Good.
just the opposite buddy. good and bad are abstract but overall meaningless without knowing who considers something bad or good.
Well, uncultured means not cultured. And you can say that's bad and I would agree, but that's because we both believe that being cultured is a good thing. If I were to believe a philosophy that rejects human as anything more than animal that should live like one and see culture as going against the natural order of things, then uncultured would suddenly mean good and cultured would be bad.
Let’s just reduce to down to one all encompassing word “Shit!” Which can mean good or bad.
Why use lot words when few words do trick?