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I had to search "quirky" at the dictionary, and I still don't know if it is bueno or malo. You, natives, have no consideration for the non-nativesSo "quirky" and "fun".
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Quirky without quotes is fine. With quotes usually suggests that someone is doing a shitty job at something, but including humor or lightheartedness and calling it "quirky" when the reality is that its still a really shitty attempt at whatever they were actually trying to do, and not funny enough to be stand alone humor.I had to search "quirky" at the dictionary, and I still don't know if it is bueno or malo. You, natives, have no consideration for the non-natives
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Now I get it. Thank youQuirky without quotes is fine. With quotes usually suggests that someone is doing a shitty job at something, but including humor or lightheartedness and calling it "quirky" when the reality is that its still a really shitty attempt at whatever they were actually trying to do, and not funny enough to be stand alone humor.
Hmm, I've never regarded quirky as being shitty, I always thought it to be strange or unusual.Quirky without quotes is fine. With quotes usually suggests that someone is doing a shitty job at something, but including humor or lightheartedness and calling it "quirky" when the reality is that its still a really shitty attempt at whatever they were actually trying to do, and not funny enough to be stand alone humor.
I think context matters, but the word in and of itself is kind of neutral.I had to search "quirky" at the dictionary, and I still don't know if it is bueno or malo. You, natives, have no consideration for the non-natives
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"Quirky" in this instance means someone was trying to be hip and with it, but the results fall in that uncanny valley where one assumes artificial intelligence - or worse, an executive committee - was involved.I had to search "quirky" at the dictionary, and I still don't know if it is bueno or malo. You, natives, have no consideration for the non-natives
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Quirky is the excuse for the thing being shitty. Quirky doesn't mean one is shitty, but if someone calls someone "quirky" with quotes, the implication is that they are bad, and try to justify a lot of what makes them bad by calling it quirky. ime.Hmm, I've never regarded quirky as being shitty, I always thought it to be strange or unusual.
Never mind, I misread your quote. I "see" what you're saying.
The quotes mean they tried too hard to achieve the thing between the quotes, and failed as a direct result.
Quirky is the excuse for the thing being shitty. Quirky doesn't mean one is shitty, but if someone calls someone "quirky" with quotes, the implication is that they are bad, and try to justify a lot of what makes them bad by calling it quirky. ime.
This guy needs to have a serious talk with his hairdresser. His head is almost perfectly spherical and it disturbs me.
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Hmm, I've never regarded quirky as being shitty, I always thought it to be strange or unusual.
Quirkiness can be comedy gold when it's applied in the right context, and in the right measure.
Yep, those are basically the points I was trying to make too -- what is the purpose of playing if not for a song?Like some others have already pointed out---songs without technique can survive a long,
long time. Technique without songs, though? Not even sure what that is? Is that like
calisthenics without a game to use your physical abilities in?
That being said, technique can make our options for writing and composing wider. I think
it is a balance and a compromise----like everything else in life. We have to weigh what we
want to get, with what we can get, and then determine how reasonable those aims are in
the context of our life's circumstances.
Heh heh heh, he said "please myself".I've always loved learning, just for the sake of learning. That's it. It, in and of itself, gives me pleasure.
A girl in HS once asked me if I read the encyclopedia in my free time. I didn't and told her 'no.' But she apparently picked up on my having a better-than-average amount of knowledge about several things, which I suppose was true. I just like that shit.
I wasn't learning so I could _________. (Some things I was, of course, but not everything.)
And it's the same way for me on the guitar. I couldn't care less about an end goal, or putting what I learn into a song. If that's what excites you, that's great.
For me, just being able to see that this week I can do some things better than I did last week, makes me content and happy. So maybe I do actually have a goal, which is to simply please myself with my improvements as a player.