People, listen up and listen good. “Meta” is not an adjective. It is a prefix which can take one of two meanings:
connected with a change of position or state
metamorphosis
metabolism
higher; beyond
metaphysics
metalanguage
But now some people have decided it would be a good idea to take this PREFIX and turn it into its own WORD, because apparently “arcane” [...]
Get rid of this word. Just get rid of it. We cannot have a word that ends in “moron” that has nothing to do with morons. Granted the “moron” in “oxymoron” comes from the same place as the “moron” in “moron” (the Greeks, those fuckers), and I’m sure at some point this word had a [...]
In drumming, in particular using the snare drum, there are these things called “rudiments”. A rudiment is a basic pattern one learns to build a kind of drumming vocabulary. There are several national and international drumming organizations that recognize the most important rudiments, and currently there are at least 40 accepted rudiments. These range from [...]