Yes it's great but is it iconic?

[FrankS]

On RFF, I'd say that back alley is iconic. 🙂

 

[michaelwj]

On RFF, I'd say that back alley is iconic. 🙂

With an awesome bag collection!

 

[segedi]

Sounds very stevejobsian.

 

[Moto-Uno]

How about "Moving forward " , iconic is almost a treat to hear after this forsaken expression . Peter

or is this just a Canadian thing ?

 

[tbhv55]

How about "Moving forward " , iconic is almost a treat to hear after this forsaken expression . Peter

or is this just a Canadian thing ?

In the UK, I keep hearing this in the form "going forward". I hear it mostly from CEOs in media interviews, when talking about how they're going change (ruin?😉) their companies.

To me, it always sounds like an empty 'packing' phrase, intended to add *apparent* substance to a sentence... a sentence that is probably empty and meaningless anyway (or disingenuous).

 

[Keith]

I'm having trouble with everything happening in the future being constantly described as 'going forward!'

The older I get the more annoying these things become ... go figure! 😀

 

[tbhv55]

I'm having trouble with everything happening in the future being constantly described as 'going forward!'

The older I get the more annoying these things become ... go figure! 😀

Likewise! 🙂

 

[giganova]

Here in the US, everything older than 30 years is "vintage", which Europeans (with a real history) would simply call "old crap". 😀

 

[John Bragg]

The over use of the word capture to describe a photograph. I have taken many pictures in my life, but never captured any. I have exercised timing and patience and some self taught photographic disciplines to produce a decent negative and produced some work that I am proud of. It might capture the attention of the viewer if I am lucky, but please dont call my photographs captures !

 

[xayraa33]

I really like that word "iconic".

I should learn to use it more often.

I would like to buy the most "iconic" camera ever made, yes a Nikon SP.

But just like a Gretsch electric guitar in my youth, I think about it and buy many other top brands but I never seem do it for some strange reason.

Maybe the sizzle is better than eating the steak.

 

[radi(c)al_cam]

Here in the US, everything older than 30 years is "vintage", which Europeans (with a real history) would simply call "old crap". 😀

Correct 🙂

And since the true meaning of «vintage» is «grape harvest», very probably the intention is to insinuate that the old crap is «exquisite».

Calling a ghastly stinking old car «vintage» is particularly shtoopid, IMHO 😉

 

[emraphoto]

Here in OZ everything is "Award winning", exiting and awesome.

well, it's escaped OZ in the hull of a ship. every photographer i meet is 'award winning'. never a mention of the particular award... just AWARD WINNING. means nothing these days.

 

[Keith]

well, it's escaped OZ in the hull of a ship. every photographer i meet is 'award winning'. never a mention of the particular award... just AWARD WINNING. means nothing these days.

Like all those medals on your six dollar bottle of cab sav! 😀

 

[Colin G.]

I don't hear nor read iconic so much but brilliant, everything is brilliant! That show...brilliant. That movie...brilliant. That guy/girl...brilliant. Etc etc....brilliant. It's dull.

 

[Larry Cloetta]

I've heard people say that the educational system is awful, and blame it for bad vocabulary and stuff. No way!!!!
The educational system is awesome!!! Totally!!!

 

[Aristophanes]

This is driving me nuts, completely and utterly nuts. Why, why, why does everything of even the remotest importance have to be described as 'iconic'? Does anyone know what this word means or, at least, used to mean? What's wrong with famous, important, well known, significant, imaginative, groundbreaking etc.?

Perhaps it's the current mini-heatwave here in 'iconic' London town or maybe someone else, somewhere else is being driven quietly insane by the constant use of this word? If so, you have my sympathy...

If you squint you can read it as ironic.

 

[Richard G]

I'm having trouble with everything happening in the future being constantly described as 'going forward!'

The older I get the more annoying these things become ... go figure! 😀

Thanks for sharing that with us Keith. I think we can cover off your concern about that across the organization and if no member has any other suggestion for actioning this I could progress it my end by establishing a workshop. That would help us leverage language-improvements to meet our communication KPIs going forward.

 

[FrankS]

Thanks for sharing that with us Keith. I think we can cover off your concern about that across the organization and if no member has any other suggestion for actioning this I could progress it my end by establishing a workshop. That would help us leverage language-improvements to meet our communication KPIs going forward.

We change the paradigm.

 

[sepiareverb]

For many it is iconic. But they are morons, and don't have any idea how to use language.

 

[CMur12]

The problem with such threads is that they tend to suggest that one should never use any of these words. It's true that any word can come into fashion and be overused, but so it is with any language, as many words change in standardized meaning over time through these very processes.

A couple of standouts here for me:

Capture: God knows that we need synonyms for "photo" (and "photograph"), so that we don't just repeat the same word over and over again. Words such as "capture" and "image" come in handy at these times. (Besides, a photo is a capture.)

Brilliant: I've said it before and I'll say it again: The Mamiya TLR system is brilliant! (Very well conceived; beautifully executed; nothing else like it.)

- Murray