107230, This "virulent" discussion is a metaphor for QTs career Posted by Orbit_Established, Mon Dec-10-12 11:40 PM
Its amazing.
You guys have no idea what you're doing, and literally create ideas out of thin air, and try to be intelligent when you create them.
Problem is, because you don't know what you're talking about, said idea or opinion comes across as shallow and sophomoric instead of nuanced and insightful.
This is how most Tarantino reverence is.
Its mostly bullshit.
>Definition: Bitterly hostile or antagonistic; hateful > >Synonyms: vicious, vindictive, bitter, hostile, malicious, >resentful, acrimonious, malevolent, spiteful, venomous > >EDIT: I'm not even saying you're wrong. I really want to >know.
This is what Professional did:
He/she thought of a word, then googled the thesaurus for synonyms that made him/her sound intelligent.
They came up with "virulent."
A "fuck you" to a part of the country for something that happened 200 years ago cannot be "virulent."
Infections are "virulent." Viruses are "virulent." Bacteria are "virulent." Just google "virulent" and see for yourself.
Some social scientists use "virulent" in the context of racism/classism, etc, but that's an extension of a social ills=biological ills metaphor.
Very rarely is "virulent" used with stuff like hatred, because there are zillions or better, more intelligent, more specific modifiers. "Virulent" just doesn't work that well there, unless you're extending the metaphor to actual illness.
I've read other uses of the word, but almost none of them are used properly.
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