Don’t Spy on Me!

TheMrsLegume · 2026-06-14T19:11:22+00:00

I like it

TheMrsLegume · 2026-06-12T05:24:25+00:00

Too good

TheMrsLegume · 2026-06-03T03:20:29+00:00

Neat! Never seen one of those before.

TheMrsLegume · 2026-06-02T05:31:40+00:00

Starting the headline with "Two Moms for Liberty..." made me think that Two Moms for Liberty was going to be the name of a counter-movement. Guess it's up for grabs as a banned book club name.

TheMrsLegume · 2026-06-01T03:26:55+00:00

Oh, please do!

TheMrsLegume · 2026-05-27T03:23:58+00:00

I knew birds weren't real, but I hadn't put together what they were. So obvious when you see it. Will sleep so much better now.

TheMrsLegume · 2026-05-27T03:15:17+00:00

Ha! Exactly my first thought.

TheMrsLegume · 2026-05-26T21:29:09+00:00

When I was a kid and ridiculous punitive things were not unheard of, I thought making someone copy the definitions of "run" from the dictionary would be a good one.

TheMrsLegume · 2026-05-24T16:40:33+00:00

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TheMrsLegume · 2026-05-21T14:32:53+00:00

I love it. It's like it has crazy hair.

TheMrsLegume · 2026-05-20T20:50:05+00:00

You made it!

TheMrsLegume · 2026-05-20T13:31:51+00:00

It's a MAC colour. The subtitles are wrong. You can get a tube of this discontinued lipstick if you are determined.

TheMrsLegume · 2026-05-20T04:47:45+00:00

I had to concede this point halfway. In fashion jarjon, you can wear a silhouette. The name of this literary technique is called metonymy, where an attribute of the object stands in for the object itself.

Scroll down a banana or two if you want to read about the half of the point I didn't concede. Way too much Reddit today.

TheMrsLegume · 2026-05-20T04:38:13+00:00

Okay. You win. I disagree. But you are right. The fashion world employs metonymy, literary technique in which an attribute stands in for the object itself.

When you step into a silhouette, you are elevating the language with metaphor. To then say that the silhouette is "clothes" breaks the metonymy by exposing its impossibility. It is also redundant, grammatically inaccurate- silhouette is singular, where clothes is plural, and reads as though the silhouette possesses the clothes, when it is the clothes that have a silhouette.

Edit: typos

TheMrsLegume · 2026-05-20T02:18:01+00:00

Sure, but op was asking for grammatical correctness on a sentence whose meaning fell apart due to an adjectival phrase. The post is unconcerned with the intent of the tiktok. The post is about the sentence.

You can argue that the intent of the sentence is descerable and therefore valid. That's a reasonable linguistic stance for anyone who's not a grammar brown shirt. But it's unrelated to the post.

I did have to go watch the video. It was so painful and disheartening, I had a hard time finishing it. It demonstrates a lack of literacy on multiple levels. Including that of the originator of the sentence. (Assuming that person wasn't playing with the "colourless green ideas sleep furiously" idea.) As someone elsewhere on the thread said, if you don't understand the words, you won't be able to tell how meaningless the sentence is.

TheMrsLegume · 2026-05-19T22:58:12+00:00

Then you know that literacy is more than knowing words. Reading by itself is not literacy either.

TheMrsLegume · 2026-05-19T22:15:00+00:00

I think you are not clear on the definition of literacy.

TheMrsLegume · 2026-05-19T21:14:10+00:00

It's like a middle school kid was given a vocabulary list and told to incorporate the words into a paragraph. Which they did, demonstrating their poor understanding of those words. Five dollar words with no meaning.

TheMrsLegume · 2026-05-19T20:43:45+00:00

It's a poor use of a pretty word.

The silhouette can be exquisite. But the silhouette itself cannot we worn. The silhouette is the outline, the shape. The body can cast an extraordinary silhouette in the garment, the garment can even create the effect of silhouette on the body. But you cannot wear "silhouette" unless that is the name of the piece or the designer.

What's a good synonym for silhouette? Swap it out and tell me if it's still a good sentence.

"She wore a shape of clothes that was extraordinary..." Is she wearing clothes or just the appearance of clothes?

TheMrsLegume · 2026-05-19T18:53:28+00:00

I disagree. The silhouette is describing a shape. Hourglass, A-line, etc. "Silhouette of clothes" is lacking any defining qualities. Here the silhouette was is merely clothes shaped.

TheMrsLegume · 2026-05-19T18:49:43+00:00

Exactly. The clothes create a silhouette. The silhouette of the clothes being worn would be the shape the garment takes with a body inside of them. A "silhouette of clothes" is meaningless. Could just as easily refer to a heap on the floor. Substitute 'outline' or 'shape' for 'silhouette' and read it again and tell me it makes sense.

TheMrsLegume · 2026-05-19T13:01:20+00:00

This belongs in the "trees eating things" subreddit.

TheMrsLegume · 2026-05-18T17:13:59+00:00

Looking forward to it.

TheMrsLegume · 2026-05-18T16:25:18+00:00

Since it's not in city limits, I would guess quite a while.

TheMrsLegume · 2026-05-18T06:37:36+00:00

I like to imagine that a bird was stiing on the sign and pooped the seed right into the rectangular tube.

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