Madhulk Posted 18 years ago
Vocabulary
Purple prose...
Jimmy: The guy's story is beyond amazing,
it's great.
Chloe: Do you mind if I, um, add a little purple
prose just to smooth out the rough edges?
To embellish it a little in order to be like eye candy?
it's great.
Chloe: Do you mind if I, um, add a little purple
prose just to smooth out the rough edges?
To embellish it a little in order to be like eye candy?
Top answer
Hi, Madhulk. I think your conception of it is closer to the consensus than is Chloe's. "Embellish" is definitely the word, but as an old woodworker and machinist, I think of "smoothing out the rough edges" as removing material, not adding it.
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Hi, Madhulk. I think your conception of it is closer to the consensus than is Chloe's. "Embellish" is definitely the word, but as an old woodworker and machinist, I think of "smoothing out the rough edges" as removing material, not adding it. But perhaps you could think of it as padding. - A.
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