The Written Word?

[§ínned™]

para namang bible o words from god ek ek. kainis. i have nothing against god pero bakit hindi na lang 'yung dati? "literature" o kaya "literary culture" para archaic kahit cliché ang dating, basta consistent sa movie/tv/radio forum na hindi pina-arte yung forum title?

"the written word" sounds like very religious or nagpapaka-poetic or wala nang maisip na ibang forum title or pa-catchy.

you named the other forums under entertainment and media as movies/tv and music/radio, why resort to "The Written Word"?. or maybe you can change the movies/tv forum title na lang to "Pinilakang Tabing" o kaya "LVN of the New Millennium" or "The Silver Screen Talks to the Evil Lil Tube" forum whatever or the music/radio forum title to "Hear Ye! Hear Ye!" or "Sound Waves and Air Waves" or "Ears Unplugged" forum or something.

anyway, just a suggestion.

§inned™

[Yoshi]

Nagtaray ba tayo, ha, Sinned?

Okay naman yung The Written Word ah, though it's kinda misleading when you realize that many of the threads in this forum don't actually have anything to do with written per se. The threads just have something to do with things that are written (kahit nga translations pinapakialaman rin!), and I guess that's why this forum was named such.

Pero gusto ko rin yung Pinilakang Tabing. :)

[neth_row]

hey, i agree with sinned...when i clicked the link papunta sa topic na to, i thought there was some sort of religious discussion going on...yon pala literature lang...dapat palitan yung title....it's very misleading....

[Ira]

LOL, thanks for your suggestions--mukhang nasunog kami sa name na ito, ah. We have taken note of your ideas and will discuss them seriously. :)

[acridmouth]

Or perhaps you can make it "The Written World". Just a suggestion =)

[asterisk]

Initially, I thought na halatang gustong pa-artehen and medyo contrived ang title. But it is really pretty okay, because literature is a sacred pardouct where humans sanctify in words their experiences, dreams, imaginations, ideas, aspirations, despair, faith, intellect, etc. etc. It has ecstacy, sadness, immortality, history, etc. Writing and reading are one of the most comtemplative acts of humakind, and have the most varied and far-reaching effects and purposes. Literature, in a sense, is a reverent entity, but not really religious.

Read on!

[batang uliran]

"Literature" was relatively confining for this forum because we intended it to encompass other printed material that may not be considered "literature" such as newspapers, comic books and magazines in addition to novels, short stories, essays and poetry.

The final decision will rest with Ada in discussion with the other moderators primarily Aragorn.

[Ada]

Can we have more suggestions on what we can rename this forum to? If you feel that TWW is misleading, then let's change it.

[§ínned™]

Webster defines literature as writings in prose or verse; especially : writings having excellence of form or expression and expressing ideas of permanent or universal interest (2) : an example of such writings <;what came out, though rarely literature, was always a roaring good story -- People>; b : the body of written works produced in a particular language, country, or age c : the body of writings on a particular subject <;scientific literature>; d : printed matter (as leaflets or circulars) <;campaign literature>;. Literature may also mean as an aggregate of a usually specified type of musical compositions.

Taking the context of Webster's definition of literature, the following are considered as forms of literature:
magazines, comic books, electronic books, text books, journals, scripts, pamphlets, circulars, ad copies, leaflets, aperçus and folios, newspapers, "Understanding Literature for Dummies", text graffitis, book articles and critiques, printed lampoons etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. Thus, it is not only confined to poetry, novels, essays, fiction, short stories, etc. etc. etc.

So, literature as a forum title is not at all confining. And that "The Written Word" you have there is too icky. Whoever thought of it is very corny.

§inned™

[Ira]

The formal definition of literature would encompass everything you said. However, we did an informal survey among friends, and literature connoted purely books. We didn't want the majority of posters to think that this forum was only limited to books.

[wAgKaNgMaKuLiT]

AMEN.

[§ínned™]

"...We didn't want the majority of posters to think that this forum was only limited to books..."

Now it is high time for them to know their literature.

§inned™


[This message has been edited by §inned™ (edited 04-08-2000).]

[§ínned™]

Hey just a thought, why not make this forum the "arts and humanities" or "arts, history and literature" or whatever forum to include theater, literature, performing arts, philosophy, architecture, abstract science, arts and crafts, languages, advertising arts mythology, history etc.

Those that I have mentioned actually don't seem to fall under any of the other fora.

§inned™

[wAgKaNgMaKuLiT]

cute nung "arts and humanities" :)