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Aside: Sincere question: I see travesty used in this manner a lot, and I'm never sure what it means. Did you mean tragedy? Is there some common meaning to trave
by christophilus 3y ago
Aside: Sincere question: I see travesty used in this manner a lot, and I'm never sure what it means. Did you mean tragedy? Is there some common meaning to travesty, like maybe it's a truncation of "travesty of justice" or something?
From Webster's dictionary, travesty means:
1. a debased, distorted, or grossly inferior imitation (example:
"a travesty of justice")
2. a burlesque translation or literary or artistic imitation usually grotesquely incongruous in style, treatment, or subject matter
Anyway, I'm not being pedantic-- I really feel like I'm missing something, since I frequently see it used without any subsequent qualifications, and I never know what it's supposed to mean when it's a standalone word.
- toyg 3y agoIt's your n.1, although the object is assumed. In this case, it stands for something like "a travesty of justice in international relations". The writer assumes that certain processes should work in certain ways to produce certain outputs, and sees the current situation as something that a working system should not produce.
- boxed 3y agoI mean, it fits both honestly. It's a mockery of the ideals international cooperation should stand for. The word is used like this a lot and that's why I use the word like this. Just like I use "chair" for the thing I sit on :P