goddog said:
theprof00 said:
Khuutra said:
theprof00 said:
Khuutra said:
That is a long post that doesn't say a lot.
Mike Capps made the statement, not Cliff B.
“It’s really humbling to see such great review scores coming in so far, and we’re glad that reviewers have been excited about the many changes we’ve made in the sequel,” he told CVG.
When something positive is humbling, it means that it's far and above what you were expecting. This is not hard to draw from context. |
Tell me how you got that from the title. Because that is what I've been talking about this whole time. Does someone need to slap you with a trout?
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I would suggest, next time, that you simply read the OP.
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I would suggest, next time, that you and jasoncc realize that we are talking about the title. Within the context the title implies bad reviews because of natural tendancy to take that phrase as negative. It is a linguistic thing. I know that words have different meanings but sometimes there is such a predominant meaning that supercedes the other psychologically.
In takes context in order to derive this secondary meaning sometimes, and that is why when I came in I said to myself "huh, it got good reviews after all".
The phrase was said twice. Once in the OP with one context, and once in the body of the OP within another context. If you cannot understand the concept of context then there is nothing I can do for you. You are so focused right now on proving that 'humbled' can mean 'thankful' that you aren't even reading what I'm trying to say, and you are automatically assuming that I'm trying to tell you wrong.
Unfortunately, this will be the fifth time I say this. "I was talking about the TITLE" I know it may sound confusing given such big words as 'talking' and 'TITLE'. (which in this case means the heading, and not the 'championship')
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I think the meaning of the title changes dependent upon how aware you are of reviews already out there. if you know they were good then you should have the reasoning to make an assumption that he means he feels honored
or do you view everything through a vacuum
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I've already explained that I didn't know the scores yet. I guess that's a very difficult thing to understand.
As for the unintelligible "vacuum" reference, I'll assume you meant to ask if I was a pessimist. Because if I didn't know the scores, the correct usage of that 'turn of phrase' would be "or do you live in a vacuum". Which would make you stupid, so I will assume you were alluding to some strange phrase you and your friends made up about being pessimistic. In which case I would say "I already explained the effects of superceding definitions" in that most words have two definitions but one of them is usually so dominant that you might never hear the second definition.
Fun fact: some words have secondary definitions that are even opposite of what the primary definition is! But you knew that already because your not an idiot.
