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Old 05-15-2025, 04:37 PM   #16
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To me blurbs are "THIS BOOK IS THE BEST THING SINCE INDOOR TOILETS!!!!!!!"
They are usually above the actual description of the story.
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Yeah, I meant the whole description, not only the first sentence or two.
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Old 05-17-2025, 08:52 PM   #17
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There's a description (usually provided by publishers) and then there's blurbs. I consider blurbs to be one or two sentence tripe that someone with the purse-strings browbeats other authors into writing for a book (or book's author). Blurbs don't give me anything that would help me know what a book might be about.
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Old 05-18-2025, 03:06 AM   #18
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I tend to react similarly, albeit less extremely. Of course EVERY phrase, in EVERY language, is "fabricared" - somebody made it up, before which time it did not exist.
I see this as one of the problems of being old, watching words change meaning or being "repurposed". My latest cringe is seeing gift used as a verb, as in gifted. Another one is using alternate when the correct word is alternative. But languages aren't static.

One that's in progress is nonplussed. Originally it mean upset but enough people have been using it to mean unconcerned that that meaning is taking over.
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Old 05-18-2025, 03:39 AM   #19
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I see this as one of the problems of being old, watching words change meaning or being "repurposed". My latest cringe is seeing gift used as a verb, as in gifted. Another one is using alternate when the correct word is alternative. But languages aren't static.
I'm not exactly young by most definitions, I was walking when men first walked on the Moon. But I LOVE watching words change meaning. My all time favourite is "nice" Many, many people who rant and froth and wail and mourn over words changing meaning over time conveniently forget that the very first use of "nice" in English was as a pejorative indicating mental deficiency. So if anybody gives me a sermon of the "X means this and always has" type, I just smile and say "that's nice".
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I see this as one of the problems of being old, watching words change meaning or being "repurposed". My latest cringe is seeing gift used as a verb, as in gifted.
Just how old are you? "Gift" as a verb is attested from the 17th century.
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That's why I don't download any metadata besides cover. I just copy-paste it manually.
I do it all manually because it most cases, the metadata has errors and as long as I have to manually double check it, I may as well do to manually.
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Yeah, I meant the whole description, not only the first sentence or two.
I've seen descriptions that have more review crap then an actual description.
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Old 05-18-2025, 10:57 PM   #23
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The word "poignant" in blurbs makes me want to rip my hair out from its overuse.
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Old 05-19-2025, 09:12 AM   #24
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The word "luminous" in a blurb ensures that I will NEVER read that book.

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The word "poignant" in blurbs makes me want to rip my hair out from its overuse.
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What happened to those stickers on covers? Are they still a thing, are they completely replaced by graphical designs that are just part of covers now?
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An 'exhilarating read that will keep you guessing until the very end!

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An 'exhilarating read that will keep you guessing until the very end!

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You have a padded double bath?
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The word "poignant" in blurbs makes me want to rip my hair out from its overuse.
It's also somewhat similar to 'pungent' which I don't really want to be a story to be.
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