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Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark III

06/13/2012 11:15:14 AM · #1

Can someone please explain what the word mundane means?

Yo_Spiff

Olympus 12-100mm f/4.0 M.Zuiko ED IS PRO

06/13/2012 11:18:32 AM · #2

Commonplace and boring.

Canon EF 28-135mm F/3.5-5.6 IS USM

06/13/2012 11:22:13 AM · #3

Originally posted by Yo_Spiff:

Commonplace and boring.

Thanks for clearing that up. So would I be right in saying that games, music, animals and bowling to name but a few are not infact mundane ?

Kelli

Canon EOS-D60

06/13/2012 11:26:20 AM · #4

Originally posted by WebbTogg:

Originally posted by Yo_Spiff:
Commonplace and boring.

Thanks for clearing that up. So would I be right in saying that games, music, animals and bowling to name but a few are not infact mundane ?

Mundane is in the eyes of the beholder.

Sony FE 200-600mm f/5.6-6.3 G OSS

06/13/2012 11:27:40 AM · #5

"Mundane" come from the Latin "Mundus", or "world". It originally referred to things or concerns of this world, as opposed to heavenly concepts. The word came into usage when Western civilization was dominated by the Catholic Church, and it addressed the dichotomy between the sacred and the profane, the heavenly and the temporal.

That usage is still with us, but the meaning also segued over time into a reference to things that are lacking in interest or excitement, things that are dull, and this is the meaning most of us attach to the word.

Curiously, in the beginning the word also referred to "clean & orderly", "elegant", as opposed to the ornate or baroque.

R.

vawendy

Sony Alpha 1

06/13/2012 11:30:31 AM · #6

Originally posted by Kelli:

Definitely. I would consider bowling quite mundane (oh -- how painful watching Bowling for Dollars!). My mother would find music mundane, I wouldn't. I wouldn't find animals mundane, but a lot of people find cat shots mundane. Some games I'd consider quite mundane, others... naw...

Message edited by author 2012-06-13 11:30:59.

06/13/2012 11:31:45 AM · #7

Originally posted by WebbTogg:

Actually, no: those are all things of this world, as opposed to of the spiritual world, and each of them is possessed of the quality of mundanity. Although some music, of course, would rise above the mundane and become exalted.

Metallica is mundane. Cherubini's Requiem is exalted :-)

06/13/2012 11:36:02 AM · #8

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

Originally posted by WebbTogg:

Originally posted by Yo_Spiff:
Commonplace and boring.

Thanks for clearing that up. So would I be right in saying that games, music, animals and bowling to name but a few are not infact mundane ?

Actually, no: those are all things of this world, as opposed to of the spiritual world, and each of them is possessed of the quality of mundanity. Although some music, of course, would rise above the mundane and become exalted.

Metallica is mundane. Cherubini's Requiem is exalted :-)

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Cherubini,s requiem is in fact mundane just like the king it was written for :-)

06/13/2012 11:37:26 AM · #9

Originally posted by WebbTogg:

Cherubini,s requiem is in fact mundane just like the king it was written for :-)

According to Beethoven, it was better (by far) than Mozart's! We need a showdown!

06/13/2012 11:42:36 AM · #10

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

Originally posted by WebbTogg:
Cherubini,s requiem is in fact mundane just like the king it was written for :-)

According to Beethoven, it was better (by far) than Mozart's! We need a showdown!

Ah but Mozart was by far the better Composser. Cherubini got lucky with one piece. Form is temporary but class is forever !

06/13/2012 11:52:47 AM · #11

Originally posted by WebbTogg:

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

Originally posted by WebbTogg:
Cherubini,s requiem is in fact mundane just like the king it was written for :-)

According to Beethoven, it was better (by far) than Mozart's! We need a showdown!

Ah but Mozart was by far the better Composser. Cherubini got lucky with one piece. Form is temporary but class is forever !

Yet steel & stone endure where bright songs fade...

06/13/2012 12:10:04 PM · #12

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

Originally posted by WebbTogg:

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

Originally posted by WebbTogg:
Cherubini,s requiem is in fact mundane just like the king it was written for :-)

According to Beethoven, it was better (by far) than Mozart's! We need a showdown!

Ah but Mozart was by far the better Composser. Cherubini got lucky with one piece. Form is temporary but class is forever !

Yet steel & stone endure where bright songs fade...

Shall we call a truce and say they were both pioneers in there fields

06/13/2012 12:18:45 PM · #13

Originally posted by WebbTogg:

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

Originally posted by WebbTogg:

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

Originally posted by WebbTogg:
Cherubini,s requiem is in fact mundane just like the king it was written for :-)

According to Beethoven, it was better (by far) than Mozart's! We need a showdown!

Ah but Mozart was by far the better Composser. Cherubini got lucky with one piece. Form is temporary but class is forever !

Yet steel & stone endure where bright songs fade...

Shall we call a truce and say they were both pioneers in there fields

Oh sure, I'm just having fun. I'm actually totally deaf; I've never heard either requiem :-) I bow to your superior knowledge ;-)

Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark III

06/13/2012 12:25:05 PM · #14

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

Originally posted by WebbTogg:

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

Originally posted by WebbTogg:

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

Originally posted by WebbTogg:
Cherubini,s requiem is in fact mundane just like the king it was written for :-)

According to Beethoven, it was better (by far) than Mozart's! We need a showdown!

Ah but Mozart was by far the better Composser. Cherubini got lucky with one piece. Form is temporary but class is forever !

Yet steel & stone endure where bright songs fade...

Shall we call a truce and say they were both pioneers in there fields

Oh sure, I'm just having fun. I'm actually totally deaf; I've never heard either requiem :-) I bow to your superior knowledge ;-)

Get out of town!!! Are you really ?

Yo_Spiff

Olympus 12-100mm f/4.0 M.Zuiko ED IS PRO

06/13/2012 12:30:55 PM · #15

Originally posted by WebbTogg:

Get out of town!!! Are you really ?

He is. I didn't know that for a couple of years until it got mentioned in passing in a discussion one day.

Tamron 16-300mm Di II VC PZD MACRO w/Canon Nikon mount

06/13/2012 12:33:48 PM · #16

Originally posted by Yo_Spiff:

Originally posted by WebbTogg:
Get out of town!!! Are you really ?

He is. I didn't know that for a couple of years until it got mentioned in passing in a discussion one day.

Well then it's true what they about losing one sense and gaining on others as his attention to detail is awsome. Floodwater and cattails is an awsome shot

JulietNN

Canon EOS-7D

06/13/2012 12:39:42 PM · #17

I once saw a flutter of bright red flowers in a forest, they where clumped together around 4 leaf clover. Mist swirling around the base of the trees. I went over to marvel at them.

It was a ripped up coke can.

Is it now mundane?

A stick is a bit boring and just kinda lays there, till you hit someone with it. Then it is a all battle fighting, light saber, defender of dragons and princess, mud stirring, flinging marvelous piece of work.

IT is all how you see it,

06/13/2012 12:55:08 PM · #18

[quote=JulietNN] I once saw a flutter of bright red flowers in a forest, they where clumped together around 4 leaf clover. Mist swirling around the base of the trees. I went over to marvel at them.

It was a ripped up coke can.

Is it now mundane?

A stick is a bit boring and just kinda lays there, till you hit someone with it. Then it is a all battle fighting, light saber, defender of dragons and princess, mud stirring, flinging marvelous piece of work.

IT is all how you see it, [/quote.

The scenarios you have painted for the stick in question are all exciting in themselves. But the stick is still mundane without the fairy stories yes !