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The Outline “slams” media for overusing the word

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      Neverland
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      Yeah, The Outline is awesome. But seriously, I enjoy a lot of their content and the layout is very fine and almost zine-like.

      Yeah, The Outline is awesome. But seriously, I enjoy a lot of their content and the layout is very fine and almost zine-like.

      5 votes
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        1. Askme_about_penguins
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          No annoying sticky header that follows you around uselessly taking up screen real state and preventing you from reading the text behind it, too. I wish more pages adopted this approach.

          No annoying sticky header that follows you around uselessly taking up screen real state and preventing you from reading the text behind it, too.

          I wish more pages adopted this approach.

          4 votes
        2. Neverland
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          Assuming you are on desktop at the moment, check the site out on mobile. It’s definitely mobile-first and has neato swipe interactions on the homepage, like the Notable section part way down....

          Assuming you are on desktop at the moment, check the site out on mobile. It’s definitely mobile-first and has neato swipe interactions on the homepage, like the Notable section part way down.

          Also, I think their comic series Who watches the men? is one of the best things I’ve seen in a while, though quite political.

          2 votes
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    userexec
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    Everybody get up, it's time to slam now... But seriously I'm so sick of this in reporting these days. From an article I read a few days ago: The news cycle is already numbing enough without...

    Everybody get up, it's time to slam now...

    But seriously I'm so sick of this in reporting these days. From an article I read a few days ago:

    In a blistering shot at President Trump, Republican Sen. John McCain called today’s news conference "one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory."

    The news cycle is already numbing enough without writers overplaying and hyperbolizing every empty gesture as some hella sick burn.

    6 votes
    1. Luna
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      It's like how "reality" TV shows use dramatic music and punchy sound effects. You don't have to tell me when a scene should be suspenseful or shocking, let the audience actually think for...

      It's like how "reality" TV shows use dramatic music and punchy sound effects. You don't have to tell me when a scene should be suspenseful or shocking, let the audience actually think for themselves. Stop trying to get people interested by making mountains out of molehills.

      The same applies to the use of laugh tracks. It just makes it easier for studios to shorten deadlines and decrease hiring budgets for writers since they don't have to be as funny anymore.

      1 vote
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    The_Blackthorn
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    I also nominate "slap" when the media talks about tarrifs. It's like they're describing a Three Stooges skit half the time.

    I also nominate "slap" when the media talks about tarrifs. It's like they're describing a Three Stooges skit half the time.

    4 votes
    1. PsychoPitcher
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      It kinda does feel like we are living in a three stooges skit sometimes.

      It kinda does feel like we are living in a three stooges skit sometimes.

      3 votes
  4. Yuli-Ban
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    A lot of exaggerated words need to be curtailed. It's fine to use emotional language, but overuse just ruins the point.

    A lot of exaggerated words need to be curtailed. It's fine to use emotional language, but overuse just ruins the point.

    4 votes
  5. Askme_about_penguins
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    This is what they (they being people on the internet) call Semantic Dilution. A process by which words lose meaning or intensity due to overuse. It's a quite frustrating phenomenom that ends up...

    This is what they (they being people on the internet) call Semantic Dilution. A process by which words lose meaning or intensity due to overuse. It's a quite frustrating phenomenom that ends up ruining many of the words you used to like.

    4 votes
  6. arghdos
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    Amen, I can't stand seeing 'slam' in every third headline. "Roast's" is another way over-used word as well

    Amen, I can't stand seeing 'slam' in every third headline. "Roast's" is another way over-used word as well

    3 votes