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[adenar]

If any of you use the word 'hue' to describe skin tone one more time, I am going to punch my screen.

Comments

[quizzicalsphinx]

I thought "hues" was Thesaurusese for "eyes" anyway!

[plainflavour]

"Hue" when talking about skin tone makes sense but actually substituting it for the word "eyes"? As in, "He stared at Quizzical, his hues wide with horror at the notion"? Thats... that's not cool bro.

[quizzicalsphinx]

Your hues do not deceive you. It's a cromulent substitution.

[wanderingoddity]

Yeah, I've been seeing that a lot too. Makes me cry just a little.

[plainflavour]

Do you mean they are saying things like "the ruddy hue of his skin"? Because that can be over used, sure, but its also appropriate, as things can have a ruddy hue. If its just "his skin was hue" or "he felt goosebumps all over his hue" then that is ridiculous and I approve of your monitor-punching.

[adenar]

It's kind of a mix of both - it's like they had a one-night stand with a thesaurus, stole the most ridiculous words they could find, and promptly forgot the meaning of the simpler ones.

[chocolatemamba]

hue can be used to describe any color as far as I know.....
unless you just mean overuse of it.

[adenar]

I mean desperate overuse, abuse and wrongful meaning use, if that makes sense. They use it to directly refer to the skin, as in "the sword cut through his alabaster hue" and, although I am a poet and I didn't know it, that gets really frustrating.

[chocolatemamba]

lol. That is very wrong.....thesaurus can be deadly.

[chocolatemamba]

lol. That is very wrong.....thesaurus can be deadly.

[shadow_otm]

What if his skin is named Hue?

[canidsock]

Or Hugh, and he was attacked by a spellchecker?

[wbicepuppy]

I just had someone try to convince me that Hue was perfectly acceptable for eyes.

Yeah.