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Hagiographic is Greek, from "hagios" = saint + "graph" = writing, meaning "writing about someone as if they were a saint". DH0. Name-calling. This is the lowe
by lsb 17y ago
Hagiographic is Greek, from "hagios" = saint + "graph" = writing, meaning "writing about someone as if they were a saint".
DH0. Name-calling.
This is the lowest form of disagreement, and probably also the most common. We've all seen comments like this:
u r a fag!!!!!!!!!!
But it's important to realize that more articulate name-calling has just as little weight. A comment like
The author is a self-important dilettante.
is really nothing more than a pretentious version of "u r a fag."
- raganwald 17y ago> DH0. Name-calling. I disagree. I said nothing about the author, I said something about the tone of the story. Read the definition of the word you supplied: > writing about someone as if they were a saint What name does this call the author? For that matter, is it even derogatory about the story? I think it's a factual description of the post. If you choose to take it as a negative statement about the author by way of being a criticism of the story, I think your argument reflects biases I do not share.