Another round in the Bad Writing Game includes use of the word "crepuscular" and it made me wonder how many people who have read the Chrons actually know the definition of the word, or just kind of pass over their eyes as they read as a kind of literary wild card, letting it mean whatever they guess it to mean in the context.
What do you think it means-- without using Google or a dictionary!!!
You may only look at this spoiler AFTER answering the poll, or I'll get all crepuscular on you. Spoiler
cre·pus·cu·lar/krəˈpəskyələr/
Adjective:
Of, resembling, or relating to twilight.
(of an animal) Appearing or active in twilight.
Synonyms:
dim - dusky - twilight
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle. -Philo of Alexandria
ahhhh... if only all our creativity in wickedness could be fixed by "Corrupt a Wish." - Linna Heartlistener
I actually did read the 1st and 2nd Chrons once with a dictionary at my elbow, so I could look up all the crazy words he uses. Haven't done that yet with the Last Chrons. But he hasn't thrown too many new crazy words at us, I don't think...
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"Dreaming isn't good for you unless you do the things it tells you to." -- Three Dog Night (via the GI)
aliantha wrote: But he hasn't thrown too many new crazy words at us, I don't think...
Not quite as many it doesn't seem...but there was that one sentence that like fifty different colors [mostly shades of yellows and greens IIRC??].
[spoiler]Sig-man, Libtard, Stupid piece of shit. change your text color to brown. Mr. Reliable, bullshit-slinging liarFucker-user.[/spoiler] the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass. "Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
I admit I did not look this up when reading the books. I guessed and it turns out I was only "half" right. Not sure if that means my vocabulary is half empty or half full.
I picked the one I would've picked before I looked the word up for the Bad Writing Contest! (#2... it just felt right!)
"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
Vraith wrote:
Not quite as many it doesn't seem...but there was that one sentence that like fifty different colors [mostly shades of yellows and greens IIRC??].
Which book? I might have just, y'know, let my eyes pass over that sentence....
It was in AATE, Spoiler
Describing the colours of the Ardent's ribbons.
Oh! I *do* remember that!
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"Dreaming isn't good for you unless you do the things it tells you to." -- Three Dog Night (via the GI)
Vraith wrote:
Not quite as many it doesn't seem...but there was that one sentence that like fifty different colors [mostly shades of yellows and greens IIRC??].
Which book? I might have just, y'know, let my eyes pass over that sentence....
It was in AATE, Spoiler
Describing the colours of the Ardent's ribbons.
I didn't remember that that's what it was...[I'm actually not convinced it IS, I thought it was something Linden and power], but it definitely was in AATE...I searched Z's AATE posts to find the line cuz I knew he quoted it somewhere, and it is:
a personal effluvium of cerise and incarnadine and carbuncle, ecru and ivory, turquise and viridian and azure, blue as deep as velvet, yellows ranging from the fulvous and the sulphuric to the palest gold.
So I was wrong about mostly yellows and greens...it's got most of the rainbow in there.
ON TOPIC though: when I run across crepuscular, [funny how common a word it is in fantasy/horror and almost nowhere else] my auto thought is a reddish dim light [perhaps cuz I think "sunset beside "twilight?," or maybe cuz it reminds me of "corpuscle?,"....I don't really know.]
[spoiler]Sig-man, Libtard, Stupid piece of shit. change your text color to brown. Mr. Reliable, bullshit-slinging liarFucker-user.[/spoiler] the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass. "Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
I guessed at the answer and was right! 
And I pride myself on my vocabulary 
