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[Putnam]

No it isn't.

[weenog]

I think the troll is winning.  The thread is making a plaintive gesture.

[Loud Whispers]

I think the troll is winning.  The thread is making a plaintive gesture.

The thread is surrounded by semicolons; The semicolons are making a plaintive gesture. The thread is engraved with exceptionally worked opinions depicting The Absence of Puns, 2013.

[WealthyRadish]

I think the troll is winning.  The thread is making a plaintive gesture.

The thread is surrounded by semicolons; The semicolons are making a plaintive gesture. The thread is engraved with exceptionally worked opinions depicting The Absence of Puns, 2013.

More like engrieved.

[DG]

Link all you want. A word's quality is independent of the observer.

Does the same apply to forums users?

[mendonca]

More like engrieved.

Don't you dare give me another word to look up!

[weenog]

Don't you dare give me another word to look up!

"Squamous" means "scaly", you get that one for free.

[Graknorke]

http://pbskids.org/arthur/games/factsopinions/

That annoyed me more than it should have.
I kept having to tell it that facts about opinions were opinions in themselves. Because that's the answer it wants. But it hurts to have to.

I think I'm taking this too seriously.

[mross]

Meaning... is description. This is not to be contested: it seems logical enough. Words refer to concepts, they describe your world. But is it what you need? You are... different, inside.

This word functions, and has meaning, of a sort. It refers to a quality, and describes a gesture; it served its purpose as best it could.

And now, it is obsolete.

Its meaning is lackluster, its purpose has become redundant, and it will be forgotten. It was a "good" word, but it had no power. It was a slave to prescriptivism.

I wonder if you are destined to continue using awful adjectives. Will your repertoire fade in the shadow of greater eloquence?

You are born of language, the very essence of that which assigns meaning to symbols. You have power, if you wish it.

[Putnam]

I can be sesquipidalian if I so desire, but concise meaning works better.

Plaintive is concise and just un-descriptive enough to allow for a wide range of illustrations that it could be describing; thus, by your metric, "plaintive" is an objectively good word for this usage.

[Loud Whispers]

And now, it is obsolete.

Its meaning is lackluster, its purpose has become redundant, and it will be forgotten. It was a "good" word, but it had no power. It was a slave to prescriptivism.

A word need not be colloquial to be remembered. It has the power to demonstrate the plaintive disregard for the words others fail to comprehend. A shame really.

[weenog]

mross B 1 m4d 1337 mofo, fo shizzle

[freeformschooler]

I don't... understand... how to participate in this debate

[Catsup]

how to participate in this debate

you dont, you sit back and watch forum drama.

[Nyan Thousand]

I don't... understand... how to participate in this debate

I consider myself to be a well-versed traveler of the Internet. Allow me to show you how to enter this discussion in an eloquent manner:

>hurrdurr opinions
>implying you're not just an idiot
>implying plaintive doesn't describe the given emotion perfectly clearly and you're just an idiot because you didn't know what it meant
>implying "morose" is just as "descriptive" as "plaintive"
>implying "sad" is a better descriptor than "plaintive"
>implying implications
>hey /df/ who's your waifu
>shiggy diggy doo.jpg