Friday, March 29, 2013

WORD OF THE DAY! 3/29/13!

bathos [bey-thos] 
noun  
1. A ludicrous descent from the exalted or lofty to the commonplace; anticlimax.
2. Insincere pathos; sentimentality; mawkishness.   
3. Triteness or triviality in style. 


EX. In Pokémon, there is no riddle more tired than the question, "What does the rest of Diglett look like?" As a child, I honestly just assumed he was like a little cylinder tube of brown Pokémeat that dug around underground and popped its head out to battle. I also never really worried about the rest of Diglett's body (despite finding Dugtrio stupid) and accepted some of the ideas from the anime that, for some reason, Digletts helped the trees grow. In other words, its a goshdarn video game and, out of all the questions in Pokémon, this one is best left unanswered.


After all, no matter what answer they give us, the truth will not be up to par with the plethora of ridiculously amusing theories about the little Ground type that have been ran into the ground, over and over, to the point of losing their shine. If Game Freak, inc. ever reveals this un-mystery, the results will be unsatisfying and leave us with a sense of ennui and bathos.