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james castle
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| hylozoii wrote: | I click on Joe Fridays for the new pictures. Enough of the Marvel bashing. Watchmen was boring British rhetoric. There I finally said it. Marvel is like NBC's Friends. Bad comedy but they give what customers want: fast-paced, fun, non-complex cliffhangers with good art. Sophistication? Not so much.
Geebus, Friends was an awful show but you couldn't argue the results. |
I can't even imagine what you mean when you say "British rhetoric". Is there a certain kind of rhetoric that British people employ a lot? Is it British rhetoric because Alan Moore is British? Heck, how is it even rhetoric? Rhetoric, as I understand it, is the practice of using speech or language to hammer home a certain point or position. Watchmen is famously ambiguous. That is, it's not clear what the message of the piece is. I don't think something that ambiguous could possibly count as rhetoric.
As for your other point: man, you should read Nextwave. It is the definition of "fast-paced, fun, non-complex cliffhangers with good art". It is people getting kicked and things exploding and people posing in the street for no reason. Happily, the first trade is even called "This is What They Want". I assume "they" are people like you who like flashy pictures but don't know exactly what "rhetoric" means. So I'm sure you'd love it.
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Francesco
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Joined: 08 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 4:13 pm Post subject: |
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| james castle wrote: | | I assume "they" are people like you who like flashy pictures but don't know exactly what "rhetoric" means. |
Yeah. let's round up these people and shoot them in the head.
RHETORIC
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a. The art or study of using language effectively and persuasively.
b. A treatise or book discussing this art.
2. Skill in using language effectively and persuasively.
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a. A style of speaking or writing, especially the language of a particular subject: fiery political rhetoric.
b. Language that is elaborate, pretentious, insincere, or intellectually vacuous: His offers of compromise were mere rhetoric.
4. Verbal communication; discourse. |
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Neilan
Tree of Knowledge
Joined: 27 Mar 2007
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Location: Southampton, PA
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| Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 7:00 pm Post subject: |
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Well, I'm safe, thanks to Francesco, because I now know what rhetoric means. I always had trouble with that word. And I didn't like Friends.
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Francesco
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Well, the later seasons sucked big time.
And indeed, everything is better if you add some dictionary into it. |
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