Thread: Terms the IWC has no clue how to use
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Old 09-16-2014, 06:15 PM   #44
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Originally Posted by Theo Dious View Post
I feel like a lot of times people use the word "shoot" to mean "speak disparagingly about." As in "recently released WWE wrestler shoots on Vince and Triple H!" This isn't incorrectly used in this case, but the tendency seems to be to charge the word to expect the reader to expect something juicy and inflammatory. You never see something labeled as "Some guy shoots on Vince McMahon!" and find that the meat of his statement was "Vince is a great guy, he totally did right by me and I love him like a dad." "To shoot" simply means "to act as one's true self as opposed to one's wrestling character."
I will say among one another shoot does mean "make inflammatory comments" but also if some comes to me and asks me if they can ask me a question i will respond with "shoot" meaning "speak truth." so it works both ways.
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