New awesome words
Sep. 27th, 2009 05:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Two words that should clearly enter common usage:
1. Textravert (n) (coined by
badgerbag): a person (like me) who is more inclined to extraversion in textual format.
2. Dollhouse (v) (coined by takumashii:
To make excuses for the failings of a serial entertainment in the hope that those failings are going to be undercut any moment now, because they're just too stupid to continue as presented.
Usage example:
"I thought the last episode of Glee was kind of bad, but I'm Dollhousing it for at least a couple more episodes."
ION I am still extremely tired, and I promise to call the doctor tomorrow.
1. Textravert (n) (coined by
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
2. Dollhouse (v) (coined by takumashii:
To make excuses for the failings of a serial entertainment in the hope that those failings are going to be undercut any moment now, because they're just too stupid to continue as presented.
Usage example:
"I thought the last episode of Glee was kind of bad, but I'm Dollhousing it for at least a couple more episodes."
ION I am still extremely tired, and I promise to call the doctor tomorrow.
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Date: 2009-09-28 10:27 pm (UTC)There's a review that states this really well at Strange Horizons (http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2009/09/two_views_dollh-comments.shtml)
(scroll down to the 2nd one, by Gianduja Kiss)
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Date: 2009-09-29 12:04 am (UTC)Maybe Whedon is trying to find a new way to tell stories, but I liked the similarities of theme and character archetypes in the Buffyverse, Firefly and Astonishing X-Men. If he went back to that kind of storytelling, I wouldn't mind. They weren't perfect stories, but I don't think they're as problematic from the get-go as Dollhouse (or Dr. Horrible, for that matter, which I think was a bit of a mess in how it ended up perpetuating some of the problems it was attempting to highlight and maybe subvert).
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Date: 2009-09-29 12:16 am (UTC)I love Leverage! It's great.