Xmas gift for all of you sad radio dads who can’t be bothered to curate your own music:
What’s wrong with the word? It’s a perfect word for what I was describing.How very lah de dah you are.
"I can't come to the pub tonight as I'm busy curating my record collection."
Indeed, it’s just a shame they spoil it by talking and then playing insipid indie rockAnd radio is obviously all about music discovery and community, not listening to your own collection.
What were you describing? Honest q btw.What’s wrong with the word? It’s a perfect word for what I was describing.
Can't argue with that!Indeed, it’s just a shame they spoil it by talking and then playing insipid indie rock
If you want to sound like a knobby hipster, I guess it is.What’s wrong with the word? It’s a perfect word for what I was describing.
Selecting and choosing my musical entertainment for the evening/weekend/occasionWhat were you describing? Honest q btw.
This is pure reverse snobbery at use of normal and relevant words in a conversationIf you want to sound like a knobby hipster, I guess it is.
i.e. making a playlistSelecting and choosing my musical entertainment for the evening/weekend/occasion
Indeed. Curating is a better word though.i.e. making a playlist
If you like to sound pretentious, yes it is.Indeed. Curating is a better word though.
It’s not pretentious just cos you consider it to be fashionable. It’s a perfect word for what it’s used to describe. IIf you like to sound pretentious, yes it is.
"Curate" — Annoying or Really Annoying? — Lisa Roe Editorial
Digital content. Hotel minibars. Cheese plates. Photos of beards. They’re all things I’ve recently seen described as “curated.” Doesn’t it seem like there’s way too much “curating” going on now? Once used mainly in the realm of museums or art collections, “curate” is now applied to just about any lwww.lisaroeeditorial.com
It's not just my opinion.It’s not pretentious just cos you consider it to be fashionable. It’s a perfect word for what it’s used to describe. I
Simply picking or putting things together that supposedly go well together is not what curating is fundamentally about.
Benjamin Dreyer did provide an entry in his delightful 2019 book, Dreyer’s English:
This is what “curate” is not so good for: to portray what you’re doing when you’re organizing a playlist of motivating songs for gym use, selecting smoked fishes for a brunch, or arranging displays of blouses, espadrilles, and picturesque thrift-shop books at Anthropologie.
— Benjamin Dreyer, Dreyer’s English, 2019
You’re just scrabbling around to confirm you own prejudices. It’s yours and several other members of the commentariat’s opinion, not fact. Meanwhile, normal people use the word normally and without pretension. We know what it means and care not for fusty gatekeepers who think it’s up to them to decide how people use wordsIt's not just my opinion.
Please Stop Using the Word “Curated”
Simply picking or putting things together that supposedly go well together is not what curating is fundamentally about.medium.com
‘Reading lists, outfits, even salads are curated – it’s absurd’
Everyone is a curator these days, but what does curationism tell us about our society? And does the process of selection and arrangement add any value?www.theguardian.com
The Rise and Fall of Vogue Words - The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
In the last two weeks, on various radio and television programs, I have heard the word granular used no less than five times, in sentences like “The commission was hoping for a granular analysis of the problem.” The word got my attention, but I didn’t know what it was supposed to mean. All I knewwww.grammarbook.com
no such thing of course.Normal people?
What's that?
Yes. I work in a library. But the area I’ve heard it used, and used it, most often is in DJing cos it’s EXACTLY the right word to describe it.It's a wanky word used by wankers. Unless you work in a museum I guess. Do you actually say it out loud in conversation OU?
Yes. Though a better, more precise word exists.You're making a playlist you big tart.
I've got it on in the background as I'm busily curating my sock drawer.Stick 6 Music on whilst you curate
I'm curating my Sainsbury's delivery to 6musicI've got it on in the background as I'm busily curating my sock drawer.
Great bandWankers
That difficult second album by WankersI'm off to curate a dump.