Annoying words and phrasesMarketing bollocks, buzzword bingo, or your mum saying "fudge" when she really wants to swear like a trooper. Let's ride the hockey stick curve of this top hat product, solutioneers.
Thanks to simbosan for the idea
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 13:13)
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"Comedic."We don't need this foul neologism. The adjectival form of "comedy" is "comic."
The use of this clunky and ugly word is, frankly, tragedic.
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Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Sun 11 Apr 2010, 11:24,
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Well, actuallyI see "comic" as relating to humour in general and "comedic" as relating to the established genre of comedy. So "Mr Binkley gave a comic [i.e. humourous] performance in Twelfth Night, using all the tricks in the comedic canon" makes sense. It can sound a bit clunky, yes, but it's a useful distinction to make.
And seeing as "tragic" now means something like "sad", perhaps we do need a new word to describe the genre of tragedy. Perhaps, as you say, "tragedic".
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Pretender, Sun 11 Apr 2010, 20:33,
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