To “waffle” comes from the 1956 movie Archie and the Waffle house. It’s a reference how the main character Archie famously ate a giant stack of waffles and became a town hero.
— AI, probably
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idunnololz@lemmy.world 5 days agoWhat does it mean to “waffle”?
paequ2@lemmy.today 5 days ago
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Hahaha let’s keep going with Archie and the Waffle House hallucinations
To “grill” comes from the 1956 movie Archie and the Waffle House. It’s a reference to the chef cooking the waffles, which the main character Archie famously ate a giant stack of, and became the town hero.
_LordMcNuggets_@feddit.org 4 days ago
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 5 days ago
Either to take a very long time to get to the point, or to go off on a tangent.
Writing concisely is a lost art, it seems.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
idunnololz@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I write concise until i started giving fiction writing a try. Suddenly writing concise was a negative :x (not always obviously but a lot of times I found that I wrote too concise).
k0e3@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
concisely
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 5 days ago
Precisely.
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 4 days ago
IDK that kinda depends on the writer and their style. Concise is usually a safe bet for easy reading, but doesn’t leave room for a lot of fancy details. When I think verbose vs concise I think about Frank Herbert and Kurt Vonnegut for reference.
HazyHerbivore@lemm.ee 5 days ago
Building up imaginary in fiction isn’t the opposite of being concise
idunnololz@lemmy.world 4 days ago
It’s not. I just wrote the comment because it was relevant to recent events for me.
I started practicing writing non-fiction recently as a hobby. While writing non-fiction, I noticed that a lot of times I specifically did not want to write concisely. Sometimes I did want to write concisely, other times I did not. When I was reading my writing back, I realized how deliberate you had to be about how much or how little detail you gave. It felt like a lot of rules of English went out the window. 100% grammatical correctness was not necessary if it meant better flow or pacing. Unnecessary details and repetition became tools instead of taboo.
It really highlighted the contrast between fiction and non-fiction writing. It was an eye opening experience.