No Nutritional Value: Constantine's Sword

[trinityvixen]

I feel sort of bad equating a documentary with a C-level tween vampire flick from the 1980s, but Constantine's Sword is (pardon the pun) so toothless and obvious as to be the documentary equivalent of unflavored rice cakes. Documentaries can be calorie-free, too

Comments

[ivy03]

Proper use of the word aspect FTW!

[trinityvixen]

Woo hoo!

Is that one people tend to use incorrectly? I'm suddenly channeling Heathers, where the one teacher doesn't care about the dead student except that she used "myriad" correctly in her suicide note.

[ivy03]

I had an English teacher who would take off a grade if you used "aspect" to mean anything but face or "facet" to mean anything but part of a jewel. Of course, both of those words are correctly used to mean "thing," it's just imprecise (and slightly sloppy) writing.

So I shouldn't say proper use of aspect, I should say use of original meaning of aspect. Which is still cool.

[trinityvixen]

Hey! I'm cool! I'll take it!

[wellgull]

Why does a certain class of English teacher insist on denying that human thought and language are fundamentally reliant on metaphors? Sure, it's a good idea to avoid overused clichés, and be aware of the original meanings of words, but these kinds of bugaboos don't make writing any clearer...