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This is not an ode. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ode An ode is not a tribute, it is a particular form of verse. I guess peo

• lvoudour 9y ago
  An "ode to X" means a "praise to X", because odes in ancient Greece were used to praise gods, heroes, etc.
• tromp 9y ago
  My favorite is "ode to a goldfish", a particularly concise verse: My wet pet
• qubex 9y ago
  I don’t know why you are being down-voted but here’s my modest +1 of moral support for having made a factual statement and paid the bitter price for it...
  • ams6110 9y ago
    Because complaints about rigorous/academic meanings of words don't really add substance to the discussion.
    • qubex 9y ago
      I quite like precise use of vocabulary, it makes it so much easier to ensure everybody intends the same concepts if what one expects to be conveyed is the dictionary definitions. Apparently the OP felt so too. I think he’s justified in wishing to draw attention to that.
      • lvoudour 9y ago
        It's a well known phrase used appropriately in the article. The OP suggested that the author got "confused" and misused the word, which is clearly not the case. Besides "tribute" is also used non-literally today, the original meaning is very different
  • perl4ever 9y ago
    The world "ode" is rarely used literally - it's usually used in a metaphorical sense.
    • qubex 9y ago
      As the OP points out, there’s the word ’tribute’ to denote what was apparently the author’s original intention.
      • perl4ever 9y ago
        I disagree with the implicit suggestion that using a word like 'ode' metaphorically is undesirable. It's certainly popular and not novel, in any case.