They make shows about the means, which are then binge watched. People watch true crime shows – the subject is the means, the ends is the show that is wrapped around it.
I think Adam had it right. The means is the process of the murders and follow up. Binging the ends would be watching a fresh grave and/or watching a man sit in prison.
For those who don’t bother to click Chug’s link: “bad rap” and “bad rep” are both equally valid by the standards of modern English, and if you try to insist that one is more correct than the other, you’re fighting a losing battle against changing usage. https://www.xkcd.com/2039/
As I understand it, “rep” does come from “reputation,” and it would be perfectly suitable in this usage.
But “rap” is also fine here: it comes from “rap sheet,” a police arrest record for a particular individual. A “bad rap” is a long list of things a person did wrong.
So these are two English idioms that sound almost identical, mean practically the same thing, but come from vastly different places.
Usually, “bad rep/rap” is used when the ill opinions are undeserved. “Rap sheet” being used in this context refers to the portion of the arrest record which details the punishments administered upon the arrestee; therefore, “bad rap” would properly be elongated as “an undeserved suffering”.
Second Wednesday comic in a row where a comment prompted discussion of the English language’s innumerable idiosyncracies. I just want to express how much I love being a part of a reader community in which neither of these conversations became offensive. Everyone who reads Bug Martini is that much more awesome that there’s never a flame war in the comments.
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I will never understand the appeal of horror or crime series.
“the ends don’t justify the means but the means are pretty darn bingeable”
i think you got that backwards. the “ends” is the part that is bingeable, the means is the murder.
They make shows about the means, which are then binge watched. People watch true crime shows – the subject is the means, the ends is the show that is wrapped around it.
I think Adam had it right. The means is the process of the murders and follow up. Binging the ends would be watching a fresh grave and/or watching a man sit in prison.
Panel 1: Isn’t it called “rep” from “reputation”?
English is not my first language though, so maybe this is just a word I don’t know.
It is ‘bad rap’, but only because English is weird and nonsensical.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/usage-bad-rap-vs-bad-rep-vs-bad-wrap
For those who don’t bother to click Chug’s link: “bad rap” and “bad rep” are both equally valid by the standards of modern English, and if you try to insist that one is more correct than the other, you’re fighting a losing battle against changing usage.
https://www.xkcd.com/2039/
As I understand it, “rep” does come from “reputation,” and it would be perfectly suitable in this usage.
But “rap” is also fine here: it comes from “rap sheet,” a police arrest record for a particular individual. A “bad rap” is a long list of things a person did wrong.
So these are two English idioms that sound almost identical, mean practically the same thing, but come from vastly different places.
Usually, “bad rep/rap” is used when the ill opinions are undeserved. “Rap sheet” being used in this context refers to the portion of the arrest record which details the punishments administered upon the arrestee; therefore, “bad rap” would properly be elongated as “an undeserved suffering”.
Second Wednesday comic in a row where a comment prompted discussion of the English language’s innumerable idiosyncracies. I just want to express how much I love being a part of a reader community in which neither of these conversations became offensive. Everyone who reads Bug Martini is that much more awesome that there’s never a flame war in the comments.
I learned something new today. Thank you all!
Where is the friday comic?
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