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"Graham is known for his 'pizza profitable' mantra". It seems ramen isn't even a conceivable foodstuff for WSJ's readership. 'Pizza profitable' has a nice onom
by ladon86 16y ago
"Graham is known for his 'pizza profitable' mantra".
It seems ramen isn't even a conceivable foodstuff for WSJ's readership. 'Pizza profitable' has a nice onomatopoeic quality though.
- johnswamps 16y agoonomatopoeic -> alliterative? I don't think anything makes a sound like "pizza profitable" :)
- euroclydon 16y agoI have a friend who, every time he tell someone what onomatopoeia means, points out that, oddly enough, onomatopoeia is not itself onomatopoeic.
- genieyclo 16y agoThat's because it's Ancient Greek for "to make name for": http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/onomatopoeia http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/onomatopoeia
- jimmyk 16y ago>onomatopoeia is not itself onomatopoeic. It would be very difficult to do that since onomatopoeia is a concept and concepts don't make sounds.
- phlux 16y agowhich is ironic, given that a cucumber is saying it.
- euroclydon 16y agoHint please
- phlux 16y agoWell, my thinking was: Euroclydon's friend likes to be technically correct about the term onomatopoeia, and jimmyk chimes in with the same level of technical correctness on the matter. So for levity, I point out how it is 'ironic' in a nonsensical way - hoping to hit their OCD nerve a bit. As it is clearly not an ironic statement, and we only have anecdotal evidence of cucumbers being able to mutter a sound.
- mahmud 16y agoRun for office.
- lukifer 16y agoI've always liked the idea of "conceptual onomatopoeias": - the word "word" - the sound of the word "sound" - the thought of a thought ...etc.
- repsilat 16y agoSome argue that "cliche" is onomatopoeic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliche#Origin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliche#Origin A world like onomatopoeia being onomatopoeic isn't that far-fetched. Perhaps the word could be named after a very common onomatopoeia, perhaps one that has gone out of use. A word with that sort of etymology is "shibboleth" - its current meaning is derived from what was a common shibboleth.
- jgershen 16y agoWhich means that onomatopoeic is a heterological adjective - an adjective which does not describe itself. Is "heterological" a heterological adjective? - Grelling and Nelson, 1908.
- euroclydon 16y agoI would gladly swap 50% of the typical HN front page material for more stuff like this.
- fedd 16y agoi didnt understand anything except the word pizza, which i go and order right now
- ladon86 16y agoAh, crap. :)
- stcredzero 16y agoA model steam engine? That's almost appropriate.
- euroclydon 16y ago"Model steam engine profitable?"
- stcredzero 16y agoThat would be like, you sell 6 items a year, but you make $90 on each one.
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- nzjames 16y agoI much prefer ramen profitable, I think it will be a shame if Pizza profitable becomes wide spread. I'd never heard it before the article, and I stopped reading to come and comment. It's obviously something we all relate to considering it's already the top comment.
- jganetsk 16y agoGood ramen is more expensive than good pizza.
- hexis 16y agoAnd bad pizza is more expensive than bad ramen.
- tastybites 16y agoExplaining a $15 bowl of soup to people who don't know anything about Asian food can be tricky.
- pjscott 16y agoSolidly decent ramen is still fairly cheap in some countries.
- hristov 16y agoThis sounds like the work of an editor. Some editor probably saw "ramen profitable" and decided that the august WSJ reader would have no idea what ramen was, so they changed it to pizza, not knowing that pizza is a huge luxury for many ramen profitable companies.
- pg 16y agoOne of the things that surprised us about the Valley is that good pizza is more expensive here than on the East Coast. I'm still not sure why. But there is a noticeable difference when you have to order pizza 30 at a time.
- hristov 16y agoI have noticed the same thing! I guess it is not that easy to make good pizza. In los angeles there are places that specifically advertise new york style pizza, and they are more expensive. One of those more expensive places in my neighborhood in LA says that they import their dough directly from Brooklyn by plane. I highly doubt it. Another one has a sign that reads "We only use authentic New York tap water. (Suckers)"
- js2 16y agoThe only way to get good pizza in the Valley is to fly it in from the East Coast, so that makes sense. :-)
- replicatorblog 16y agoBrian Chesky (AirBNB), once when asked if they were Ramen profitable, and responded "even better, we are pizza profitable". Maybe it was the same reporter?
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- kd5bjo 16y agoThis appears to have been changed, with an explanatory note of "this low-cost noodle dish".
- BerislavLopac 16y agoHave they changed the article? I'm seeing "ramen profitable" now...