Comments on Profile Post by caute

Grammar nerds are usually just meanies, but it does sorta unnecessarily grause me when people say "euphoric" when they in all likelihood mean "euphonic", unless they sprinkled some molly on their gear, in which case I believe the euphoric rap.

well, is the amp euphonic or does the listener feel euphoric...

Or if the timber is pine and it reminds them of Retsina.

This is the second time I've come across "timber," when I assume "timbre" is what is meant.

@Thad E Ginathom it's what happens when your reading skills outpace your pronunciation, or when you have no friends/teachers that say the words you read out loud. TAM-ber is wildly different than TIM-ber, but they look identical if you're reading too fast or you have mild dyslexia (like me)

That's good. I thought it was the latest American Word Destruction.

Crazy stuff comes out of my fingers. It's oddly like the crazy stuff that comes out of my mouth. How do brains do that?

Excuse me. Back to euphoric timbre :)...

(I like English Oak speaker cabinets.)

@Thad E Ginathom you are literally (an Americanism meaning—
counterintuition—"figuratively") an SBAF treasure. Never stop posting, m8. I salute you and your hilarious, insightful & wonderfully human posts! And by "human", I mean showing a joyful lack of pretense. Never hear any sterile, delicately worded, self-censored words coming from you, my friend :)

I try to give people the benefit of the doubt -- in trying to be taken seriously they incorporate words that are flung about with abandon. But we know it's not about buzzwords. Have an opinion based in some honest reality and articulate it with simple words. You aren't going to lose a reader because you didn't use "plankton" in a review.

I was being a lil facetious with my skewering of redditspeak (I actually hate hardcore grammar correctors that do it to make people feel bad, they're like the British press that employ [sic] a little too freely), but I agree, so long as you get the gist of what they're trying to say, and it makes sense, it doesn't matter if you use all caps for AMP or misspell timbre or say euphoric—

who knows, maybe the gear actually made them feel euphoric and that's exactly what they meant. It's just when buzzwords are used without purpose, or when the review/impressions don't quite make sense/are contradictory bc of choice of words, then I tend to check out

Literally is the opposite of figuratively. Literally. ;)

And I go with the literal here: I think that timbre caused euphoria. But hey, was the quantum of euphoria inversely proportional to SINAD?

Excuse me while I have an organism.

I get things wrong on purpose (in speech—not in writing) because everyone's in on it. For example, telling someone, "Uh, that's, uh,... ungrammarical." But what really makes me laugh is making up mixaphors.

Me too.

Once wrote a whole essay in mixed metaphors. That was a bit naughty: We were "helping out" a temporary colleague from abroad with her English Language homework!

But hey, them that bakes last...