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> Subjective of course, but I just think it's a bad sentence. IDK, you could just look up the idiom that you are unfamiliar with? So that next time you come a

> Subjective of course, but I just think it's a bad sentence. IDK, you could just look up the idiom that you are unfamiliar with? So that next time you come across it, you are better informed. https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/fix+his+with+a+gaze https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/fix+his+with+a+gaze https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/fix-a-gaze-on https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/fix-a-g...

bmacho 2y ago
Collins is a counterpoint, right? Well it is, as it doesn't know this phrase. Thefreedictionary I don't now what that is. I'd be much more convinced if it cited examples from actual usage from books, articles, subtitles. Looks more machine generated to me than human work.
- SideburnsOfDoom 2y ago
  If you want cites google "fix him with your gaze" or "fix it with your gaze" - including the quotes.
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  - bmacho 2y ago
    It has ~3 results. 1 talks about making something immovable with your gaze with a spell in a fantasy setting. The other 2 are in blogspam articles of German companies, one of them is also available in several other languages, presumably machine translated.
    - SideburnsOfDoom 2y ago
      There are hits for other permutations such as ""fix them with your gaze", "fix me with your gaze", "fix her with your gaze" etc. If you're claiming that this is "wrong" then I think that's disproven. I don't even know what the point of that exercise would be. Just finally accept it as an opportunity to learn a new turn of phrase. You don't have to even use it, just accept that others do. IDK what the gatekeeping is about. If you still feel the need, then IDK, write a strongly worded letter about it to the editor of The Critic? It says "Britain's Most Civilised Magazine" on the home page. Have at it, present your credentials, see if you get anywhere. Or if you don't want to engage with the piece on its own terms, then maybe it's not for you. Not everything is written for everyone, and it's useless to complain about that.
marky1991 2y ago
The Collins example is not the same thing; you're fixing your gaze, not fixing the object itself. Again, the grammar just isn't the same.
- SideburnsOfDoom 2y ago
  I have seen this construction before; I'm sorry if you have not. But that does not make it "broken".
  - marky1991 2y ago
    "I have seen this construction before" is not a very high bar for communicating well.
    - SideburnsOfDoom 2y ago
      "I have not seen this construction before, therefor it must be wrong" Is a way to raise barriers to your own learning.
      - marky1991 2y ago
        What do you expect me to "learn" in this context? I'm a native English speaker, there's nothing to learn here as far as I can see. No one has reported it to be a common phrase in any known dialect and the strongest defense for it is an entry in a community provided dictionary and some people misreading it as other phrases. I have never said anything was "wrong", I said it was poor communication. Wrong is not a useful concept in language. But the whole point of language is to communicate with others and this sentence is clearly confusing to many people.
        marssaxman 2y ago
        I wonder whether you have ever encountered poetry before.
        SideburnsOfDoom 2y ago
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bmacho 2y ago

Collins is a counterpoint, right? Well it is, as it doesn't know this phrase. Thefreedictionary I don't now what that is. I'd be much more convinced if it cited examples from actual usage from books, articles, subtitles. Looks more machine generated to me than human work.

SideburnsOfDoom 2y ago
If you want cites google "fix him with your gaze" or "fix it with your gaze" - including the quotes.
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- bmacho 2y ago
  It has ~3 results. 1 talks about making something immovable with your gaze with a spell in a fantasy setting. The other 2 are in blogspam articles of German companies, one of them is also available in several other languages, presumably machine translated.
  - SideburnsOfDoom 2y ago
    There are hits for other permutations such as ""fix them with your gaze", "fix me with your gaze", "fix her with your gaze" etc. If you're claiming that this is "wrong" then I think that's disproven. I don't even know what the point of that exercise would be. Just finally accept it as an opportunity to learn a new turn of phrase. You don't have to even use it, just accept that others do. IDK what the gatekeeping is about. If you still feel the need, then IDK, write a strongly worded letter about it to the editor of The Critic? It says "Britain's Most Civilised Magazine" on the home page. Have at it, present your credentials, see if you get anywhere. Or if you don't want to engage with the piece on its own terms, then maybe it's not for you. Not everything is written for everyone, and it's useless to complain about that.

marky1991 2y ago

The Collins example is not the same thing; you're fixing your gaze, not fixing the object itself. Again, the grammar just isn't the same.

SideburnsOfDoom 2y ago
I have seen this construction before; I'm sorry if you have not. But that does not make it "broken".
- marky1991 2y ago
  "I have seen this construction before" is not a very high bar for communicating well.
  - SideburnsOfDoom 2y ago
    "I have not seen this construction before, therefor it must be wrong" Is a way to raise barriers to your own learning.
    - marky1991 2y ago
      What do you expect me to "learn" in this context? I'm a native English speaker, there's nothing to learn here as far as I can see. No one has reported it to be a common phrase in any known dialect and the strongest defense for it is an entry in a community provided dictionary and some people misreading it as other phrases. I have never said anything was "wrong", I said it was poor communication. Wrong is not a useful concept in language. But the whole point of language is to communicate with others and this sentence is clearly confusing to many people.
      - marssaxman 2y ago
        I wonder whether you have ever encountered poetry before.
      - SideburnsOfDoom 2y ago

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