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I need some feedback on this question:
What’s the difference, in media-speak, between “downbeat” and “offbeat”?
The word “ oblique” seems to link to both.
What’s the difference, in media-speak, between “downbeat” and “offbeat”?
The word “ oblique” seems to link to both.
posted by Don Galloway at 11:22 PM
2 Comments:
"Downbeat" means negative and "offbeat" means strange, but not necessarily in a bad way.
Sure Teri m, I thought about that. However, Dostoyevsky's novels, for example, which one might describe as "downbeat", are surely only negative within their own contexts, ie. they don't introduce negativity into an otherwise positive arena, their readership. And I've still got the problem I had with "oblique": "strange", whether it's in a good or bad sense, applies to both terms.
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