Slog - Comments on Today The Stranger Suggests http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/today_the_stranger_suggests_472 Copyright 2008 Sat, 05 Jul 2008 11:00:00 -0800 Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:43:07 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by A Non Imus A "venerable" pastiche? Has Wall-E become an elder statesman or something?

Perhaps you'd like to try "veritable"....

]]> A Non Imus http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/today_the_stranger_suggests_472#c1066491 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/today_the_stranger_suggests_472#c1066491 Stranger Suggests Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:31:34 -0800 Comment by annie Nope, I mean venerable, as in, by pastiching venerable source material, it borrows some of that dignity and polish. Anything that's a pastiche is veritable--not so hard to make (or verify) a pastiche.

]]> annie http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/today_the_stranger_suggests_472#c1066509 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/today_the_stranger_suggests_472#c1066509 Stranger Suggests Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:28:48 -0800 Comment by A Non Imus Well, no...pastiche is a matter of interpretation, so saying that something is a veritable pastiche is not automatically redundant.

That said, I was just trying to reconcile the use of "venerable" in this context. Venerability implies that an item itself is venerated. If the storyline for Wall-E were lifted wholesale from Shakespeare, the usage might make sense, but here it's a stretch.

]]> A Non Imus http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/today_the_stranger_suggests_472#c1066579 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/today_the_stranger_suggests_472#c1066579 Stranger Suggests Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:43:07 -0800