--- In [email protected], Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- authfriend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], Peter > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > <snip> > > > I really don't see a problem with > > > saying it was tacky. I just didn't like it. If > > someone > > > else liked it I certainly wasn't going to argue > > with > > > them! I'd say, "Oh" and leave it at that. Two > > > different preferences. > > > > Donning my editorial hat, because I suspect > > this disagreement has to do with definitions: > > > > "Tacky" generally means "in poor taste." Other > > uses, according to my dictionary, are "cheap > > showiness," "lack of style," and "lack of good > > breeding" (in connection with behavior). > > > > So it really isn't a vanilla/chocolate sort of > > term; if used to describe the decor of someone's > > home, it's an implicit putdown of that person's > > taste (or of anybody's taste who likes the decor). > > > > (It can also mean "seedy" or "shabby," in which > > case it may not be a putdown, e.g., if the person > > is too poor to afford anything better, but that > > obviously doesn't apply here.) > > Just don't like the style and by implication the > taste, in this particular instance, of the person who > decorated it. But this says nothing about the person > themselves!
And yet you said you would not say to the Dimick's face "your house is tacky!". Why the reservation if its clear that your words don't have any implication or tinge of disparaging the designers or owners? Because you would not say it to their face I think makes the case that the word "tacky" does indeed have a disparaging flavor, or at least some might interpret it that way, including the Dimmicks. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
