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This is where headcanon [1] can be a lot of fun. Just accept that they really did fight a war. It's not like it doesn't particularly fit the milieu... [1]: htt
by jerf 2y ago
This is where headcanon [1] can be a lot of fun. Just accept that they really did fight a war. It's not like it doesn't particularly fit the milieu...
[1]: https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/words-were-watching-headcanon-fanon https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/words-were-watching...
- mrayycombi 2y ago[flagged]
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- sentientslug 2y agoDevil’s advocate: all words are made up and languages evolve over time
- mrayycombi 2y agoDevils advocate devils advocate: don't waste your time arguing nonsense.
- rvbissell 2y ago'headcanon' is jargon within general fandom. The term refers to the application of imagination against the established canon of a body of fiction, to expand upon that body of work. Example: - Superman being from Krypton is canon. - Superman not truly being the son of Jor-El, because his mom slept around, might be one fan's headcanon.
- butlersean 2y agoUnlike (say) French, English has no central authority determining correct or incorrect usage. Anything literally goes.
- malort 2y agoIncluding, unfortunately, this usage of "literally."
- Two4 2y agoYou're literally being a like, linguistic pervert rn
- buildsjets 2y agoI read this in a Moon Unit Zappa voice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_Girl_(song) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_Girl_(song)
- mulmen 2y agoWhat other use of literally is there?
- Brian_K_White 2y agoWere you not aware what hapoened to the word several years ago?
- mulmen 2y agoMalort implied butlersean’s use of literally is incorrect, which it doesn’t appear to be. I am aware that groaning about incorrect usage of literally is a meme but that seems to also require being wrong about the usage being incorrect.
- soulofmischief 2y agoPeople can use whatever words they please. Never mistake yourself to be the arbiter of language, which is ever evolving.
- reaperducer 2y agoNever mistake yourself to be the arbiter of language Isn't that exactly what you just did?
- zem 2y ago"you're not the boss of me" does not mean "i am the boss"!
- mrayycombi 2y agoIf I am not the boss of you, and you aren't the boss, then someone else is the boss of you. Did I miss something?
- zem 2y agoyeah - the need for a boss in the first place. there simply isn't one.
- mrayycombi 2y agoBosses exist because they will themselves into it. Bosses aren't invented by rational necessity. Bosses make themselves boss. There's no need for anarchism either.
- soulofmischief 2y agoIf zem and I were in a room by ourselves, I don't think either of us would try to be "boss". Only once someone who supports such power structures, such as yourself, enters the picture, do we have to start protecting ourselves against such people. Have you read Lord of the Flies?
- buildsjets 2y agoImagination is not an English word. It’s a borrow word from Old French, because there was no existing English word for that meaning. Your move.
- seabass-labrax 2y agoIt's from Old French all right, but probably not because there was no existing word. Old English Translator[1] suggests geþanc (a bit similar to the modern German Gedanke) or the verb wénan, both of which can be confirmed by Bosworth & Toller's Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[2]. The Normans introduced French as the prestige language of England when they invaded, but Anglo-Saxons would have wanted to express the concept of imagination way earlier. If they had wanted to, they could have borrowed the word from Classical Latin imāginor without the 'help' of the Normans. [1]: https://www.oldenglishtranslator.co.uk/index.htm https://www.oldenglishtranslator.co.uk/index.htm [2]: https://bosworthtoller.com/ https://bosworthtoller.com/
- mrayycombi 2y agoImagination is an English word, because it obviously is. Common man's definition. The sky is blue, I don't need to prove it or define blue. My bacon came from a pig. It doesn't mean the bacon is a pig. It's breakfast. An English breakfast. And the French are pigs. See?
- reverendsteveii 2y agoImagination is an umbrella term that includes headcanon, but headcanon has a much more narrow and communicative meaning to do specifically with interpreting missing or ambiguous details in established fictional universes by fans or other people who aren't part of the creative team for that universe. Using the word that best fits the idea you're trying to communicate is good, actually. Also, while English does have real words what makes a word real is nothing more than whether when one English speaker uses is can they reasonably expect other English speakers to understand it. Given that everyone who read this thread had no problem understanding the word "headcanon" (including you, despite your protestations, as you were able to define a synonym) that means it's a Real English Word(tm)(c)(r).
- mrayycombi 2y agoNonsense. English is a beautiful language and adding junk words to it is unnecessary. Keep your headcannon and use your imagination.
- reverendsteveii 2y agoNo, what I'm saying is not only sensible, it's the agreed-upon view by people who actually study how language works. Did you think the idiomatic English you speak is unchanged from the very first language that ever referred to itself as English or are you falling prey to the idea that the things you're familiar and comfortable with are 'correct' and everything that came before you or will come after you is somehow 'incorrect'?
- Sohcahtoa82 2y agoThe only thing worse than being a pedantic asshole is being a wrong pedantic asshole.
- mrayycombi 2y agoThere are two kinds of people in the world, and you're one of them.
- tivert 2y agoI'm pretty sure my idea was literally a mash-up of Phantom 2040 "resource wars" with Demolition man "franchise wars." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_2040 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_2040 > It is the year 2040, all environmental disasters and the economic Resource Wars from the early 21st century have decimated the fragile ecosystem balance of an Earth once teeming with life. The first part of this episode is near identical to my mental picture of the "franchise wars:" https://youtu.be/Kg8bPDGmhnU?si=MhzsBy83h8yTi6Ux&t=59 https://youtu.be/Kg8bPDGmhnU?si=MhzsBy83h8yTi6Ux&t=59 I'm surprised how easy it was for me to figure this out and find confirmation.