Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[ahinton]

I think this is getting off-topic: please don't pursue the political aspects attaching to the Northern Ireland situation.

Fair comment, although I'd hoped that it would be fairly obvious that I wasn't being all that serious, not least given that, after all, there isn't such a "northern Ireland situation" as Honoured Guest appears to imply...

[Padraig]

Much appreciated Richard Tarleton and french frank.

[amateur51]

It still is, if you want to lead the rest of the proletariat to adopt your pronunciation!

Would that be a Standard Vanguardist then?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Vanguard

I'll get me flat 'at

[amateur51]

Thanks v much, jean. I'm tucking into the rest of that interview now.

Edit: Those Tusa interviews are a fantastic resource, which due to pressures I missed in their time, so I'm most grateful, jean.

I've just scanned the contents - it's such serious radio, and all the better for being so. He's talking to artists and sculptors and architects and poets :swoonemoticon:

[Bryn]

"Warning, this video contains some graphic images."

Wouldn't qualify as a video without graphic images, surely?

[MrGongGong]

"Warning, this video contains some graphic images."

Wouldn't qualify as a video without graphic images, surely?

"Graphic Score"

When folks in education use this phrase I usually reply with something like
"you mean like Beethoven's Eroica?"

Yes, I do know what they mean BUT it's usually shorthand for "something vague" when many so called "Graphic Scores" (Volumina for example) are really precise.

[Sir Velo]

"Warning, this video contains some graphic images."

Wouldn't qualify as a video without graphic images, surely?

Isn't the phrase "graphic images" somewhat tautological?

[Serial_Apologist]

many so called "Graphic Scores" (Volumina for example) are really precise.

What does it say? - I've never seen it - "Cover as much of all the manuals as possible with your physical dimensions"?

[MrGongGong]

What does it say? - I've never seen it - "Cover as much of all the manuals as possible with your physical dimensions"?

not the best movie but ....

[jean]

Isn't the phrase "graphic images" somewhat tautological?

Yes, but you can see how it arose, can't you?

People talk of particularly vivid verbal descriptions as graphic, meaning that they produce images in the mind. And gradually, because we've lost the sense of γράφειν meaning to draw, to produce images, we use it as if it just means vivid.

[James Wonnacott]

You're listening to <some programme) with me <some presenter>
Any of the following when spoken by Sean Rafferty: -Thank you very much indeed, Sublime, Extraordinary, My next guest this evening.

[Honoured Guest]

I've always understood "graphic" (as used here by Sir Velo and jean) to mean "clearly and plainly showing/depicting/describing/evoking unpleasant/distasteful/controversial details". So, the word has always had a precise meaning to me. Have I misunderstood its common usage?

[Serial_Apologist]

not the best movie but ....

Just as well I know a little German!

[jean]

I've always understood "graphic" (as used here by Sir Velo and jean) to mean "clearly and plainly showing/depicting/describing/evoking unpleasant/distasteful/controversial details". So, the word has always had a precise meaning to me. Have I misunderstood its common usage?

Showing/depicting yes, but describing/evoking extends the meaning of graphic over a rather different semantic area than is covered by its original meaning - there'd be nothing tautological about evoking an image, which is exactly why people aren't aware of a tautology when they talk of a graphic image, setting other people's teeth on edge as they do so.

Unpleasant/distasteful/controversial aren't part of the core meaning of the word, though in practice they're often the type of image the writer/speaker wished to evoke.

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[amateur51]

Just as well I know a little German!

Oh I know a little German too - what's yours called?