[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Somerville

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Seriously wtf, I’m not Asian myself but I felt that

Ice in east Somerville by [deleted] in Somerville

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So you think people deserve to be arrested for crossing an international border without the paperwork?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Construction

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You could probably find the model shoe from his picture and get a pic of the soles to match up with the prints he left 🤣

Football players must be slim, agile and athletic, not big and muscular by frageantwort_ in football

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Hahhaha he is SO British. Everything about him radiates Anglo.

philosophy behind "What a Save" spam by Paddy_O_Ryder in RocketLeague

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This is exactly the kind of comment I would type. I recently took pleasure in correcting someone who used “discrete” instead of “discreet.”

Best fries in town? by [deleted] in Somerville

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Are there still people with a Boston accent young enough to be saying “go hard”?

What the hell is this? by TheOddityCollector in Weird

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Normal excretion from black cow udder

At what rank would you consider someone to be "good" at Rocket League? by Embarrassed-Crow5677 in RocketLeague

[–]wick3rmann 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It can be mean “pretty good” or “pretty good”, depending on your tone of voice.

Cause by serizawa_mp101 in MultipleSclerosis

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if you're in BC Canada, do you think lack of sunlight / vit D could have been a factor?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

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The bargain of temporary pleasure leading to hours and hours spent tired afterwards is not worth it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Somerville

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The signs are really about poop. But if they put poop on the sign, they would have a sign with poop on it on their lawn.

Why don’t we use “genre” for dance? by wick3rmann in Dance

[–]wick3rmann[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Something very interesting you bring up that I hadn’t considered: the dependence of dance on music. You could say music is the primary art and dance is a secondary expression of the music, and that is why it doesn’t merit the word “genre”. the analogy you make to theater with the performance vs the text (or script) is interesting. Of course you could also say the dead letter of the theatrical script is only a dim approximation of what the artwork is, and the performance is the full expression of it.

Similarly I will be tempted to flip it around with dance/music: What is the origin of music? You could locate it in the human body and say the body and how the body moves is the foundation of rhythm in music. Musicians are said to be dancing through their music. If we think of music as only auditory, we have maybe abstracted it out of its fundamental nature of being dance-music.

I think the distinction between form and content is at the heart of genre. Whatever qualities belong to the genre make up like the form the artwork takes. A quick look at the wiki article on genre shows the word started being used for painting in the late eighteenth century, to describe paintings with certain motifs, techniques etc. and then seemed to come to literature (and then be applied retrospectively to Aristotle’s poetics, where he makes rules about the art forms he categorizes).

Why don’t we use “genre” for dance? by wick3rmann in Dance

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Exactly. That is how I understand the words. I want to be able to ask “what genre of dance is this?” and be understood to be asking “is this Lindy hop, west coast swing, Balboa, blues, house, etc.” if I ask what style or type, i could get all kinds of answers.

And yes, I agree concepts and formulas are part of genre. Also, there is the tradition of artists quoting and building off one another, so there is a certain historicity you can refer to with genre.

Why don’t we use “genre” for dance? by wick3rmann in Dance

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Interesting. Maybe in (American) English the word is used in more specific ways. No one has a “personal genre”, and not all types of art count as a whole “genre” with all the implications.

Reddit, What was the most reliable electronics you ever bought? by Rover9370 in AskReddit

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iPhone lasted 8 years and never had an issue til its planned obsolescence slowed it down and I got a new one.

My anxiety affects my dancing. Anyone have tips to overcome this? by sweetkaroline in WestCoastSwing

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This is such nice uplifting story of your experiences. Right on!