February 3rd, 2010 / 12:22 pm
Snippets
Snippets
Alexis Orgera—
If I have to hear the phrase pitch perfect one more time, I’m going to throw up in someone’s shoes. What does that mean? I mean, what does it really mean?
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its a music thing
its a music thing
Merriam-Webster’s Definition, since you asked.
Merriam-Webster’s Definition, since you asked.
Ok, let me clarify. I know what it is meant to mean, I know the dictionary definitions, but I want to know why we use and over-use and re-use it so much in regard to writing. Is there a meta-perfect pitch that we’re all striving for?
Ok, let me clarify. I know what it is meant to mean, I know the dictionary definitions, but I want to know why we use and over-use and re-use it so much in regard to writing. Is there a meta-perfect pitch that we’re all striving for?
I knew a singer that had perfect pitch and a pitcher that worked hard to throw one
I knew a singer that had perfect pitch and a pitcher that worked hard to throw one
why does any cliche become memetic? it sounds good. its alliterative. its easy to remember. its kind of interesting as a nod to resonance.
why does any cliche become memetic? it sounds good. its alliterative. its easy to remember. its kind of interesting as a nod to resonance.
i’ve never heard it used actually, but maybe it has to do with the fact that words happen like sound, they have meters and rythms and rhymes, sentences, etc. sentetcetera ceterasent, happen like pitch soundcetera
i’ve never heard it used actually, but maybe it has to do with the fact that words happen like sound, they have meters and rythms and rhymes, sentences, etc. sentetcetera ceterasent, happen like pitch soundcetera
I think people mean it the same way they mean “rings true”. When something just sounds “right” somehow. It is sort of a blurb cliche. It doesn’t tell you anything by itself.
I think people mean it the same way they mean “rings true”. When something just sounds “right” somehow. It is sort of a blurb cliche. It doesn’t tell you anything by itself.
Fair enough; the road from overuse to meaninglessness is short. I haven’t yet had my fill of pitch-perfects. But you are not alone. I probably just made you throw up in someone’s shoes. Four more times.
Fair enough; the road from overuse to meaninglessness is short. I haven’t yet had my fill of pitch-perfects. But you are not alone. I probably just made you throw up in someone’s shoes. Four more times.
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I know, it’s s like a lock-out technique and it’s totally obsessed with lyric, or, alternatively, with ‘cool’ minimalism. you can never be either wordy or bent. obsession with the poetic ear, as Johannes Gorannson regularly and rightly takes to task. poetry has never had anything to do with the ear, no more than it has had to do with speech: it isn’t everyday language, even when it’s colloquial. it is mute-talk. pick another body part. i say: let’s have poetry for the perineum.
I know, it’s s like a lock-out technique and it’s totally obsessed with lyric, or, alternatively, with ‘cool’ minimalism. you can never be either wordy or bent. obsession with the poetic ear, as Johannes Gorannson regularly and rightly takes to task. poetry has never had anything to do with the ear, no more than it has had to do with speech: it isn’t everyday language, even when it’s colloquial. it is mute-talk. pick another body part. i say: let’s have poetry for the perineum.
never say never
never say never
anything perfect there’s something wrong with, in my book.
also, if you want to really get down to it, really, perfect pitch in music means you have the ability to discern when something’s out of key or not and what notes are what, without any outside reference. like, naming the subway tones. A, C#, E or whatever.
but it doesn’t really mean the musician has to “use” their perfect pitch in their “art.”
applied to the written word, perfect pitch seems like it’d be more useful to a reader, than a writer. like, “hey, she’s writing in the key of DeDillo major with an flat Hemingway” or something
in any case, another reason to be irritated with the term.
anything perfect there’s something wrong with, in my book.
also, if you want to really get down to it, really, perfect pitch in music means you have the ability to discern when something’s out of key or not and what notes are what, without any outside reference. like, naming the subway tones. A, C#, E or whatever.
but it doesn’t really mean the musician has to “use” their perfect pitch in their “art.”
applied to the written word, perfect pitch seems like it’d be more useful to a reader, than a writer. like, “hey, she’s writing in the key of DeDillo major with an flat Hemingway” or something
in any case, another reason to be irritated with the term.
I always thought it meant that there was something in the voice was played up to just the right degree for discussing a particular subject, especially if it is a difficult subject to talk about. There’s no objective perfect pitch because it very much depends on what the piece of writing is actually about, there’s just something about the way the author handles the narration that seems to ring true (again with the vague musical language). I’m struggling to think of an example, but at least that’s always what I thought it meant.
It has be kind kind of a cliche, but oddly I’m not really annoyed by it. It makes an odd sort of sense, and I think it usefully describes a real phenomenon in a semi colorful way. Having said that I think it does risk overuse. And anyway any really good story or poem or whatever should hopefully be “pitch perfect” in one way or another.
I always thought it meant that there was something in the voice was played up to just the right degree for discussing a particular subject, especially if it is a difficult subject to talk about. There’s no objective perfect pitch because it very much depends on what the piece of writing is actually about, there’s just something about the way the author handles the narration that seems to ring true (again with the vague musical language). I’m struggling to think of an example, but at least that’s always what I thought it meant.
It has be kind kind of a cliche, but oddly I’m not really annoyed by it. It makes an odd sort of sense, and I think it usefully describes a real phenomenon in a semi colorful way. Having said that I think it does risk overuse. And anyway any really good story or poem or whatever should hopefully be “pitch perfect” in one way or another.
This post is pitch perfect.
This post is pitch perfect.
Ok, I can get behind something in the voice played up to just the right degree for discussing a particular subject as well as the lack of definitive perfect pitch. But I still feel snarky about it :)
Ok, I can get behind something in the voice played up to just the right degree for discussing a particular subject as well as the lack of definitive perfect pitch. But I still feel snarky about it :)