"Use other words please."

Also using "aspie" in ref. to someone who has detailed knowledge of a very particular subject is offensive and mean.

Haha, the other night my husband said I was "classically trained at memorizing every stupid song that's ever been played on the radio."

At least he didn't say I was "aspie" at it.

i feel like i still see it all the time as code for "legit", when it usually means "this person took piano lessons as a kid".

in pitchfork's review of james blake today:

The gifted British producer's new EP is rooted in the piano (he's classically trained)

Yeah, it's always used as though there's some single Classical Institute that is like the Oxford of music or something. It's a little like saying "You probably wouldn't want to get into a fight with X -- he studied martial arts."

"copydeck"

WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THE WORD "COPY"?? WHY "DECK"?? AAARRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHH

Is that a verb or a noun? What's going on there?

it's an advertising thing

http://www.katetoon.com/2009/05/how-to-write-a-copy-deck-in-five-easy-steps/

"corny"

Can I just
Fuck with
, son

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ilx has been around too long

"all good things come to those who wait"

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This isn't even "use other words," it's just "don't use." It's meaningless.

"corny"

^^^^

i'll stop using the word "corny" as soon as someone invents a better word for describing corn

give Blake a chance to showcase his classically trained piano work

... Of late, however, the classically trained Blake has started ...

... Blake is a classically trained pianist, this is a predominant ...

22 year old classically trained pianist James Blake finally releases his self-titled debut album.

The gifted British producer's new EP is rooted in the piano (he's classically trained), ...

While the experimentation of the classically trained British producer James Blake seem carefully crafted

Jan 13, 2011... CMYK, and Klavierwerke) showcased the various talents of the classically-trained young Blake. On his self titled debut James Blake ...

It's rather an audacious title, but Blake is classically trained. ...

"Classically trained" isn't meaningless if the person in question does actually play/sing Beethoven, Brahms, etc.

(I agree it's meaningless in the context people usually use it, ie "this person took lessons from someone")

I've always taken it to mean they were beaten as children when they tried to skip out on piano lessons

shakey mo cornier

what's wrong with corny? would you prefer hokey, cheesy...?

i take it to mean "this person plays the piano", or sometimes "this person plays the violin". and that they were forced to play etudes for a few months in fourth grade.

Jordan otm.

I wouldn't be surprised if that fool in Pomp-la-mousse wasn't "classically trained"

shakey mo cornier

what's wrong with corny? would you prefer hokey, cheesy...?

all these terms are used as shorthand to paper over some seriously unexamined preconceptions

corn-like

kornesque

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e2/Cornology.jpg/220px-Cornology.jpg

I like the word "corny." I think it was used by Lee Konitz to describe Lenny Tristano's behavior during the famous Jimmy Garrison metronome incident.

I almost thought you were kidding but Iguess there was such an incident. No mention of 'corny' though.

http://raggedshirts.com/images/home/oh-me-so-corny-me-so-horny-funny-tshirt.jpg

Ned, that might have been, um, in a private communication. You can see that he does like to use the word, though, by looking here: http://books.google.com/books?id=pc4CsgVHLw0C&pg=PA91&lpg=PA91&dq=lennie+tristano+metronome+konitz+corny&source=bl&ots=g49QKJ9lfr&sig=vGpw6dLBMTLxuAupbDylZlhyJeA&hl=en&ei=VwNbTZKCKciftgf85KSFDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=corny&f=false

"corny" is extremely useful imo

Haven't used it much myself but am about to start. More Lee K
http://dothemath.typepad.com/dtm/1-18-with-lee-k.html
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=1087

Not so much anymore, but for a while back in the day, Beatlesque was sure used a lot.

comparisons & references to:

Beach Boys/Brian Wilson
Nick Drake
John Fahey
Kraftwerk
etc.

Sorry, to elaborate on that ----

in the sense that if someone is playing music even tangentially related to psych-pop, it automatically sounds like Brian Wilson. or acoustic guitar playing is assumed to be Fahey inspired. singer/songwriter = Drake, electronic = Kraftwerk, etc.

That reminds me: this thread is missing "Joycean prose."

"douchenozzle"

My problem with corny is that I don't really know what it means. For a long time it basically translated as "uncool" and was used by the hip; so you had be-bop guys using the term to talk about some old-fashioned square swing band. But now it often seems to be used in re art that doesn't seem to have anything at all to do with cool, like, there is no imagined cooler alternative in some cases. I guess to me it references a time when ideas of cool were simpler so it has lost meaning.

And that is what I think of corny.

Joycean so otm. Joyce is really kind of inimitable.

"corny" is code for assholes who want to criticize something for being earnest and unironic, without wanting to actually come out and say that earnestness is bad

^corny

^asshole

http://www.theurbanelife.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/yawn-380x540.jpg

wmc otm

"corny" is code for assholes who want to criticize something for being earnest and unironic, without wanting to actually come out and say that earnestness is bad

lol