Timeline for Antonym for “boilerplate” or “cookie-cutter”
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| Oct 29, 2019 at 19:15 | comment | added | Ben Hocking | @mRotten — I don't know why you'd use the phrase to mean that. Anyways, you're focusing on the wrong part of what I said (I.e., 'which is why I wrote "I'm not sure if it's quite ideal for your situation" and then offered "singular" as another option that sounds better in this particular context.') | |
| Oct 27, 2019 at 17:47 | comment | added | mRotten | Apparently “no frequency == not a phrase” means any frequency by any measurement == a 100% legitimate phrase. Yeah, sorry no. If not q implies not p, it doesn’t necessarily follow that q implies p. | |
| Oct 23, 2019 at 10:34 | comment | added | mRotten | @BenHocking Right, it’s 1/38th as legitimate as “could care less”. | |
| Oct 23, 2019 at 10:05 | comment | added | Ben Hocking | @mRotten — please re-read my comment from yesterday, right before you said, "No frequency == not a phrase". | |
| Oct 22, 2019 at 20:06 | comment | added | mRotten | @BenHocking I found another good one that's maybe a bit more fair because it's an incorrect phrase: "could care less". Google hits: 5,480,000 (so used ~38x more than "bespoke advice"); Google ngram for "could care less": books.google.com/ngrams/… | |
| Oct 22, 2019 at 19:54 | comment | added | mRotten | @BenHocking Google hit counts: "bespoke advice": ~145,000 results, "irregardless": ~1,070,000 results. So "bespoke advice" is used ~7.5-fold less than "irregardless". Also, as I said, no ngram occurrences of "bespoke advice", but "irregardless": books.google.com/ngrams/… | |
| Oct 22, 2019 at 17:41 | comment | added | Ben Hocking | @mRotten — netwealth.com/OurViews/2019/1/23/… | |
| Oct 22, 2019 at 17:40 | comment | added | Ben Hocking | @mRotten — bespoke-advice.com | |
| Oct 21, 2019 at 14:10 | comment | added | mRotten | Didn’t mean to be curt, but that was my point - that it’s not a phrase. | |
| Oct 21, 2019 at 13:43 | comment | added | mRotten | Low frequency == not a common phrase. No frequency == not a phrase. | |
| Oct 21, 2019 at 10:54 | comment | added | Ben Hocking | @mRotten — it's not a common phrase, which is why I wrote "I'm not sure if it's quite ideal for your situation" and then offered "singular" as another option that sounds better in this particular context. | |
| Oct 21, 2019 at 10:53 | comment | added | Ben Hocking | @Lambie — I did not post the question. I do, however, know what boilerplate means — standardized text that might have places to insert things like names and titles — and cookie-cutter — items that are metaphorically all cut from the same mold. Both indicate items with great similarity, and thus both have similar implications to each other. | |
| Oct 18, 2019 at 18:33 | comment | added | Lambie | @Suncat2000 They are not used in the same contexts. And "cookie-cutter tips typical of coffee chats" ain't great either. | |
| Oct 18, 2019 at 18:26 | comment | added | Suncat2000 | @Lambie boilerplate and cookie-cutter are both terms commonly used to mean "the same". Bespoke means tailored, which is the opposite meaning. | |
| Oct 18, 2019 at 18:24 | comment | added | mRotten | No instances of "bespoke advice" in google ngram. | |
| Oct 18, 2019 at 16:33 | comment | added | Lambie | The two terms are not interchangeable. You post the question as if boilerplate and cookie cutter were similar or the same. They are unrelated to one another. Is that clear enough? | |
| Oct 18, 2019 at 2:54 | comment | added | Ben Hocking | @Lambie — I agree that boilerplate is text that is pre-written. I don't understand your point. Bespoke text would be text that is made-to-order, which is the opposite of pre-written. | |
| Oct 17, 2019 at 21:32 | comment | added | Lambie | This is not correct. boilerplate is text that is pre-written, as it were. It is not the opposite of | |
| Oct 17, 2019 at 11:06 | comment | added | Ben Hocking | @Matt — If true, I say it's high time we Yanks claim it for ourselves. It's a little late for Columbus day, but I feel there's also a discovery meme in here somewhere. | |
| Oct 17, 2019 at 11:01 | comment | added | Matt | Interestingly many sources have bespoke as a chiefly British word here here here | |
| Oct 17, 2019 at 10:52 | history | edited | Ben Hocking | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 17, 2019 at 8:35 | comment | added | Smock | Bespoke is the word that first came to my mind. +1 | |
| Oct 17, 2019 at 3:56 | history | answered | Ben Hocking | CC BY-SA 4.0 |