"Use other words please."

My issue isn't with the concept of an artistic dialogue, it's just with leaning on the phrase as a smarty-pants way to say "is influenced by"...
Such as this:

But as much as Infinite Spring is in dialogue with the pop-rock canon...

obviously it's an improvement on "is influenced by", which ppl shd stop saying

Next day, a large ship, the Rachel, was descried, bearing directly down upon the Pequod, all her spars thickly clustering with men. At the time the Pequod was making good speed through the water; but as the broad-winged windward stranger shot nigh to her, the boastful sails all fell together as blank bladders that are burst, and all life fled from the smitten hull.

"Bad news; she brings bad news," muttered the old Manxman. But ere her commander, who, with trumpet to mouth, stood up in his boat; ere he could hopefully hail, Ahab's voice was heard.

"Hast seen the White Whale?"

thats right

a whale worth hunting, mind you, I salute my captain always

"quixotic"

stfu, wuth this fallacy-laden attitude anybody who ever set foot in a guitar center could be sancho's next homie.

(see? i can read classic literature too. it has fuck all to do with the music you're supposed to be telling me about, asshole. grrrr off to the irrationally angry thread)

OK but how you do *you* pronounce it?

"is in tune with" is underrated

"rollicking" - this word is not real it really isn't

^first recorded use 1811, apparently(?)

does it mean fucking

I don't know how else to interpret roll + frolic

It is meant to describe rock and roll that is polite and takes its shoes off

rollicking is a good vocab word to bust out in whimsical moments, but don't actually use it

obviously it's an improvement on "is influenced by", which ppl shd stop saying

― mark s, Wednesday, December 6, 2023 1:48 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

"is influenced by" is definitely presumptuous, but surely "in dialogue with" can mean something other than "influenced by?" Like a band who's never heard Spirit of Eden could nonetheless unknowingly be "in dialogue" with that album, right? As in channeling something without awareness of its lineage? Unless I'm misunderstanding the jargon, which is totally possible

I don't mind Don kee-ho-tay but Don quicks-oat bugs me.

Ditto Don Jew-on vs. Don Wan.

The explanation I have heard is that those anglicized pronunciations were prevalent when travel was rare.

I’ve never heard those pronunciations (beyond how “quixotic” is pronounced)

....wait just a second! it's not pronounced like "smith"!?

xps personally I prefer 'in conference with'. mostly because of it being a lot like 'in dub conference'.

I have been guilty of using the i-word in conversation - i have spent two thirds of my life reading wikipedia you see - but i wouldn't use it in prose. bcuz inspired/impacted/other 'i's are better/closer/other 'er's etc

"let's nut this out"

let's... not??