Oct 22 2009
The Morning Link: James Cameron is the Nerd Michael Bay
A new trailer for James Cameron’s Avatar hits theaters this Friday and a New Yorker profile of Cameron just hit news stands. It’s a typical New Yorker piece, in that it uses “turbid” in the first sentence, an unnecessarily obscure word that has 10 synonyms that mean the exact same thing. It also describes the Alien Queen in Aliens as “a T. Rex skeleton exhibit come to life, whose goo-encrusted ovipositor is a Satanic vision of the procreative principle. As an instance of feminist iconography it perhaps leaves something to be desired.“*
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Cameron is a badass.
Why yes he is.
“an unnecessarily obscure word that has 10 synonyms that mean the exact same thing.”
FYI – the definition of “synonym” is a word that means the same thing as another word.