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"Plastic Coated sold me short."

I read Plastic-Coated's so-called rant further down the list of topics and I'd like to point out a few things.
1. A 'rant' is usually an incoherent expression of rage, manifested through screaming, shouting and spitting on yourself and others.
2. What Plastic-Coated had produced was, in fact, nothing more than a well-written insight into the lack of origionality in games.
3. I either want a real rant posted, or the 5 minutes back that i took to read it.
Thankyou.

michael l wrote:
> I read Plastic-Coated's so-called rant further down the list of topics
> and I'd like to point out a few things.
> 1. A 'rant' is usually an incoherent expression of rage, manifested
> through screaming, shouting and spitting on yourself and others.
> 2. What Plastic-Coated had produced was, in fact, nothing more than a
> well-written insight into the lack of origionality in games.
> 3. I either want a real rant posted, or the 5 minutes back that i took
> to read it.
> Thankyou.

This is what the dictionary says:

rant vti
to speak in a very loud, aggressive, or bombastic way, usually at length and repetitively

n
speech or language that is very loud and threatening but also monotonous

Easy now barteneder - maybe you could pour me a drink.

pitiful ingrate. That's the last time I stick up for you, you stinking foul-mouthed fatuous peasant.

Hey, the colour of my name indicates Im a newbie, it was one of my first proper posts, Im sure I'll improve over time and become more extravegant so it truly will be a rant.
On the topic of the meaning of rant, though, Fat Sow on Digitiser is a rant and it's voilent etc.
Just saying, Im not taking sides or saying who's right/wrong, ... (easy now pc - pour yourself a drink, that that feels better now).

Bah!

Fair do's, your opinion.

I wouldn't call it particularly extravagant (But that's my opinion)

Shall we leave it at that?

A lot of the writing I do is extravagant. I use a level of english that isn't necessarilly required to get my point across. I do this not to confuse people, but because it's my style, and I refuse to compromise it for a bunch of lingually inept cretins.

Extravagant writing can be called a rant. What for of extravagance is not specified, therefore anything that you can define as extravagantly written is a rant.


I deem Plastic's post worthy of the honour of being called extravagantly written, it is therefore a rant. Not much point arguing.

Extravagant as in terms of presentation or in terms of length?

hmmmm?

I may be misinformed about the actual date of pancake day, but not the meaning of the word 'rant'. How would you describe the peice of writing as being 'extravagant'?

"Violent or extravagant speech or writing. "
as taken from dictionary.com

"or extravagant" being the key words here. Extravagance is neither necessarilly violent or lacking in meaning.

You're just misinformed.

No, I really do think you'll find that the word 'rant' implies both anger and a lack of meaning.