JohhnyOnTheSpot:
"pulchritudinous elegance" - this is redundant. you might as well be saying "elegant elegance" or "lovely prettiness"
I think I've read somewhere that writing a tautology - pointless repetition, e.g. forward planning - should be avoided because it makes a sentence wordy and clumsy (wth would 'backward planning' be?). However, imo 'pulchritudinous elegance' doesn't entirely qualify as a tautology because all kinds of elegance exist - 'A Natural Disaster' by Anathema is really miserable and simultaneously elegant, and I occasionally come across music that's downright wretched, yet kinda graceful. Hence, 'pulchritudinous' is a somewhat useful clarification, at least when the review is aboot Beethoven.
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Steven Pinker on good writing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE-TTz13P7w (27 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GubdYZPYPg (80 min)
^these are really good #serious
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Album Rating: 5.0
thats very interesting and helpful, cheers. are you an english major perchance?
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@silvius - interesting angle, thanks for that. I still feel parts of the review were redundant (though maybe it's been edited since) but maybe I was wrong there :/ cheers
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that being said, I've always considered 'elegant' to be a strictly pleasurable term, and IMO something can't be both 'wretched' and 'elegant' but again, I could be wrong. I'll check those vids too; could be helpful
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Album Rating: 4.5
@Silvius that's nice, thanks for the links. He's a bit nervous, no?
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I love how glenj had some really good points but no-one really cared. Oh you, sput
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@Insurrection - Nah, I just listen to a lot of stuff like this because virtually all of the cultural output in my native languages sucks hard. And writing well is quite useful.
Johhnyonthespot: "still feel parts of the review are redundant, though naybe it's been edited since"
We haven't read the same review, coz when I read it, 'pulchritudinous elegance' had already been removed ]:
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Album Rating: 5.0
okay elegance is back, but if there are any other problems i overlooked let me know
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the problem on my last post, it's a little error but it's so wrong
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Album Rating: 5.0
if you mean the ludwig van thing that's usually how hes referred to if going by first name
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no it's not actually, read what I wrote
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Album Rating: 5.0
"no VIP privilege for you"
not very helpful
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aight u little shit u knew what I meant
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Album Rating: 5.0
still I don't know what the issue is
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it's a small issue but it's glaring tbh. it's like saying "Ludwig From himself blah blah". understand? "Van" is Dutch for "from". maybe van Beethoven, but no one says Ludwig Van.
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Album Rating: 5.0
the guy in a clockwork orange says it a ton of times. and ive never heard him referred to as just ludwig. i know grammatically it's incorrect but it makes sense practically i think
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well the movie character was wrong and idk I never met anyone refer to him as such, it doesn't sound right. it's like saying someone's middle name too.
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Album Rating: 5.0
some people do that. idk no biggie ill fix it up when i have a chance
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Album Rating: 4.0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnSfKqw6_Bs&feature=youtu.be
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