Boxlicker101
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Originally Posted by Boxlicker101
How many definitions of original are there?
In the online dictionary, there are five definitions of original as an adjective:
1. belonging or pertaining to the origin or beginning of something, or to a thing at its beginning: The book still has its original binding.
2. new; fresh; inventive; novel: an original way of advertising.
3. arising or proceeding independently of anything else: an original view of history.
4. capable of or given to thinking or acting in an independent, creative, or individual manner: an original thinker.
5. created, undertaken, or presented for the first time: to give the original performance of a string quartet.
The fifth definition is the one I took to be meant, and the adverb is no more than hyperbole.
Originally Posted by Boxlicker101
How many definitions of original are there?
There are several different ways to use the word. You are trying to stretch the meaning you want to a different context. When you are talking about the context of a story that is original as in never being submitted to a specific contest before, you need to put it into that context: "original to this contest." You don't slap a "shockingly" adjective on the front of it, because that changes the context of the word's meaning completely.
Try not being stupid about this, Box.
In the online dictionary, there are five definitions of original as an adjective:
1. belonging or pertaining to the origin or beginning of something, or to a thing at its beginning: The book still has its original binding.
2. new; fresh; inventive; novel: an original way of advertising.
3. arising or proceeding independently of anything else: an original view of history.
4. capable of or given to thinking or acting in an independent, creative, or individual manner: an original thinker.
5. created, undertaken, or presented for the first time: to give the original performance of a string quartet.
The fifth definition is the one I took to be meant, and the adverb is no more than hyperbole.