― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 01:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 01:32 (nineteen years ago) link
The Gallery Obtuse:
http://www.well.com/~lucci/GOTH/GOTHGAL/gothgalimg1.html
Obviously they didn't know what the word really meant.
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 02:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 02:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 02:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:36 (nineteen years ago) link
it's so frustrating to me, abstruse ppl. i mean just say what you mean, instead of trying to sound like some history professor. really.
― Surmounter, Monday, 18 August 2008 00:40 (fifteen years ago) link
i like sounding smart just as much as the next person but when it's like you can't even understand the gist, then you're just not using the right words, no matter how clever they sound.
― Surmounter, Monday, 18 August 2008 00:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Don't be obtuse, Ramz.
― libcrypt, Monday, 18 August 2008 06:14 (fifteen years ago) link
look, i know i've gained a little weight, but there's no way i'm obtuse.
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Friday, 7 August 2009 14:09 (fourteen years ago) link
btw what happened to libby. libby, who are you now?
use of "obscure" where "obtuse" should be is the more pressing problem in my experience
― rent, Friday, 7 August 2009 14:33 (fourteen years ago) link
I only learned that these didn't mean the same thing recently. How obtuse of me. Another recent surprise was that 'fortuitous' had nothing to do with good luck.
― Akon/Family (Merdeyeux), Friday, 7 August 2009 16:39 (fourteen years ago) link
abstruse is one of those words that makes you feel like you're zinging someone when you define it. like sesquipedalian.
― the heart is a lonely hamster (schlump), Friday, 7 August 2009 17:01 (fourteen years ago) link
even looking up the meaning of sesquipedalian made me feel like I'd been zinged.
What's the word I'm thinking of that's a fancy way of saying 'everyday'?
― Akon/Family (Merdeyeux), Friday, 7 August 2009 17:10 (fourteen years ago) link
I remembered! Quotidian!
― Akon/Family (Merdeyeux), Friday, 7 August 2009 17:16 (fourteen years ago) link
quotidien
― there is no there there (elmo argonaut), Friday, 7 August 2009 17:17 (fourteen years ago) link
quotidian, sorry
quotidien is the French
― there is no there there (elmo argonaut), Friday, 7 August 2009 17:19 (fourteen years ago) link
In reply to the original question, yes: a co-worker of mine heard Deerhoof for the first time and remarked that it was pretty obtuse music.
I use "obtuse" for people who don't make distinctions, the black-and-white crowd. You know, minds too round and fat for higher-resolution thinking.
― B'wana Beast, Friday, 7 August 2009 18:19 (fourteen years ago) link
ts: abstruse vs. tortuous
― Black bread and Victory gin AGAIN? (kenan), Friday, 7 August 2009 19:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Actually, those aren't exactly the same thing. Torturous implies length whil abstruse implies depth
― Black bread and Victory gin AGAIN? (kenan), Friday, 7 August 2009 19:45 (fourteen years ago) link
TorTUOUS
I was just thinking that it's funny when people mix up tortuous and torturous, and than I typed the wrong word
OMG! Now I know why I used to misuse obtuse! Thanks ILX. I heart you even more. haha
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Friday, 7 August 2009 21:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Abstruse should mean "has a rock-hard six-pack."
― The Love Song of J Alfred Pluot (Oilyrags), Friday, 7 August 2009 21:27 (fourteen years ago) link
lol!
― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Friday, 7 August 2009 21:31 (fourteen years ago) link