"Use other words please."

"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??