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[–] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

That's a painting not a picture, your semantics have failed you

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My counter argument: The Picture of Dorian Gray

It seems the word picture at the very least used to be used for paintings as well, so it's more that it's just an uncommon usage. Maybe the guy is a time traveler.

[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 3 points 10 months ago

Or Pictures at an Exhibition (wikipaedia link) by Modest Mussorgsky?

(Especially the Emerson, Lake & Palmer version) (Youtube link)

In the UK at least, "Picture" is totally fine shorthand, even today, to refer to a flat 2D thing that might be put on a wall in a gallery, whether it be a painting, drawing, photograph etc. More formally it would tend towards being a figurative (rather than abstract) work.

[–] Jerb322@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The whole thing is drawn, how can you tell it's not a picture?

[–] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Because it's a representation of an actual painting, but if we're going to be overly semantic then I give up. You win

[–] BlackPenguins@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It happened! Someone said someone else won on the Internet.

[–] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but you lost...

The game

[–] BlackPenguins@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

You. Motherfucker.

[–] And009@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's pixels. I'm holding my phone

[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It's light traveling from your phone to your eyeballs.

Then it's neuronal signals to your brain.

OMG it's abstraction all the way down, isn't it!? :-P

[–] And009@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Those neurons are cells and they need the mitochondria which uses protein to make energy... so everything is just energy in some form or other

[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And energy in turn derives from the sub-atomic level, which itself sits on top of the quantum, although some people say that it is all oscillations of n-branes... therefore do any words ever have any meaning, really, ever?:-P

[–] And009@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 1 points 9 months ago

They are not birbs so... yes? They "are real" (wink):-).

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I'm not sure I like the picture you're trying to paint with this comment.