This one time (not at band camp) she got all pissed at someone who questioned her use of the word "belletristic."
Mal: Well, look at this! Appears we got here just in the nick of time. What does that make us? Zoe: Big damn heroes, sir.
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Dana - Nov 21, 2003 9:02:30 am PST #6671 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Nutty - Nov 21, 2003 9:04:27 am PST #6672 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
So, that would be more along the lines of injudicious use of a thesaurus, yeah?
Or slapdash, careless, imprudent, casual, slipshod, reckless, lackadaisical, hasty....
Am-Chau Yarkona - Nov 21, 2003 9:12:16 am PST #6673 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
On a totally unrelated sideline, I once heard a very funny radio sketch which involved Roget-- but not Roget as the biographies portray him: this Roget was obssesed with sex. Each sentance would start out normally, "I was walking down the road..." go into a list of alternatives, "lane, alleyway," and end up with something porny, "passage, back passage, entrance, opening, hole, vagina..."
Okay, so that wasn't a great example. But it was a very Buffista sketch, in many ways, and I'm sorry I don't own a copy on tape. t /tangent
erikaj - Nov 21, 2003 9:37:26 am PST #6674 of 10000
Always Anti-fascist!
I've no clue what "belletristic" means. None.
Dana - Nov 21, 2003 9:38:35 am PST #6675 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
None of us did either.
And she used it in a drabble. There's no excuse for using that word in a drabble.
§ ita § - Nov 21, 2003 9:39:54 am PST #6676 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
From M-W (because I certainly didn't know):
a writer of belles lettres, literature that is an end in itself and not merely informative;
Nutty - Nov 21, 2003 9:40:36 am PST #6677 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I think it relates to belles letres? Lessee --
Main Entry: bel·le·trist Pronunciation: bel-'le-trist Function: noun Etymology: belles lettres Date: 1816 : a writer of belles lettres - bel·le·tris·tic /"be-l&-'tris-tik/ adjective
So, yeah, I gather it means someone who writes pretty. (Or wrote pretty, in France, in 1816.)
Am-Chau, that skit sounds like an old Benny Hill thing I saw once, where a "feminist" lady teacher was replacing all the masculine words with feminine equivalents. It was a story about Sandy and Womandy, the second of whom was very intellilady.
Lyra Jane - Nov 21, 2003 9:40:48 am PST #6678 of 10000
Up with the sun
Without checking a dictionary, I know belle lettres are sort of personal essays/criticism, so I'd guess it means something like "personal writings-like." It is kind of obscure and unnecessary for use in a drabble, however.
Edit: And x-post.
erikaj - Nov 21, 2003 9:44:47 am PST #6679 of 10000
Always Anti-fascist!
Funky. And I've got a good vocabulary...despite my preference for cursing and words like "funky". I don't get that confused that often.
Micole - Nov 21, 2003 9:48:13 am PST #6680 of 10000
I've been working on a song about the difference between analogy and metaphor.
She's got a cadre of adoring fans who apparently find this stuff arousing.
Please tell me you're joking.