Critical Analysis of Twilight

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Why are so many people calling Twilight "thesaurus rape"?

I was just wondering what some people were talking about, because to me, it doesn't make sense.
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Thesaurus rape. That's a new one....
sapherequeen posted zaidi ya mwaka mmoja uliopita
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If I hear "chagrin" one zaidi time I swear!
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WTF???????
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nuxi said:
It's a term to describe when authors use unnecessarily long au obscure words when a zaidi common word would have been the obvious choice. It gives the impression that the mwandishi felt they needed to sound zaidi intellectual and looked the common word up in the thesaurus, assuming that all the words listed are interchangeable which reflects an ignorance of the nuances of language.

Example from Twilight: "Neither of us were what wewe would call verbose." She meant talkative. Verbose is out of place because it implies the very kind of pretentious wording that Bella is invoking.
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Haha, I use "verbose" all the time. Then again, I am very pretentious. ;o)
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it might have nothing to do with the thesaurus but it did have something to do with misusing a word (which is what i said). It might have something to do with a mistake. I do seem to remember there was the obvious, such as scintillating and chagrin and Incandescent and some minor ones. But I'll have to scour the vitabu again for this.
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what about her many variations on the color yellow? it isn't much about making the average joe look intelligent that is the problem with so-called "thesaurus rape".. it is just that it seems to be a subtle way of the mwandishi to say: "look at how nice I'm writing."
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purplepen82 said:
From what I've heard, Stephanie Meyer used a bunch of synonyms to describe Edward. Like he's gorgeous, sexy, amazing, beautiful, stunning, wewe get my point. I guess she overdid the thesaurus usage.
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Okay, but what does rape have to do with it?
MadamOcta13 posted zaidi ya mwaka mmoja uliopita
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Not literal rape. The word is used as a slur to mean misused in a great way. I don't like this use of the word.
Dragonclaws posted zaidi ya mwaka mmoja uliopita
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Me either.
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snapeislove said:
well, "for me", its some term which means being literally unskilled, so, for example, an mwandishi want to use the word 'lovely', but that mwandishi wanted to sound deeper so that mwandishi will check the thesaurus for some synonyms and "maybe" that mwandishi will come up with 'alluring' ,and it sound way deeper than 'lovely'..

and the "rape thing":

well, the mwandishi in my "story" is literally unskilled, and that mwandishi will want to sound deeper and zaidi fluent so this mwandishi will "rape" the thesaurus, meaning, use some synonyms from it even its quite unfamiliar..

that's my point of view.. err..
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sapphire007 said:
Stephanie Meyer raped a thesaurus.

She used the thesaurus on words that didnt need it and didnt make as much sense as if she didnt use it.
There were too many big words in that book and she only added them in to make the book sound smart....definately didnt work


...Poor thesaurus
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TMR-RIP-2-5-98 said:
She described Edward's chest as incandescent. SO hot that it glows hmmmm. I support the usage of thesaurus greatly but don't use them to sound 'smart' and always check the dictionary to make sure wewe are using the word correctly
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Emmalie1935 said:
^ What the other people said. But I hate when people use the word rape like it's nothing...
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Incandescent said:
I went to the thesaurus and found a orodha of synonyms for "rape". Maybe we can agree that one of these terms would work better.

Thesaurus Abduction
Thesaurus Abuse
Thesaurus Criminal Attack
Thesaurus Depredation
Thesaurus Despoilment
Thesaurus Despoliation
Thesaurus Forcible Violation
Thesaurus Maltreatment
Thesaurus Molestation
Thesaurus Pillage
Thesaurus Plunder
Thesaurus Plundering
Thesaurus Rapine
Thesaurus Spoliation
Thesaurus Statutory Offense
Thesaurus Violation
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