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Bokeh; did you know?

NB23

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Did you know that the word Bokeh actually means “Crutch”?

And it also means “I’m insecure”.

In what language? If someone asks you who told you that, just tell them I did.
 
Respectfully, are you an etymologist? interested amateur, expert? Happened to come across a history of the word? find it in you funk and wagnalls? Noted researcher who uncovers meaning and origins of words?

Some folks have questioned my "reasoning" lately. I can't even say "Ralph told me", and a bit hesitant to identify NB23, (from the planet Zorgon?), as the basis for the redefinition.
 
It was probably the Urban Dictionary. In any case, I find his definition perfectly cromulent.
 
A crutch is something that adds movement to the life of someone/thing that was formerly rendered immobile. Sounds fine to me.
 
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This is OG bokeh.
Literally.
Kind of helps direct the gaze, hmm?
 
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Graphic is by Kitano Tsunetomi from 1929.
 
@NB23 I have the same dictionary on my bookshelf. Let's see...

"3D pop" - the popping sound of a marketing bubble bursting
"tonality" - pompous expression for liking a random image
"scanning" - mysterious witchcraft worthy of burning a stranger for
"lens rendering" - random combination of optical defects for masking mediocre compositions
"leica" - test target for practicing product photography on a smartphone
 
OP is a troll. OP posts option slanted towards argument and ghosts.

OP is a vermicious knid.
 
jvo said:
"stupidity got us into this mess, stupidity will get us out."
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Good thing it's election time in the states. Plenty of stupidity there for everyone. Free, never a charge.
 
AgX said:
Graphic is by Kitano Tsunetomi from 1929.
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Viva la reverse image search.

Gradated backgrounds and transitioning swaths of colour has been a part of Japanese and indeed Chinese painting and woodblock prints for a long, long time.
That is the original pictorial bokeh.

Bokeh is haze and fog. Both of the physical and optical kind, but also of the mental kind, which I suspect the OP to be afflicted by and possibly trying to pass on.
 
momus said:
Good thing it's election time in the states. Plenty of stupidity there for everyone. Free, never a charge.
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Freedom is a double edged blade. We're free to be stupid and by gord we'll exercise that right!
 
Cholentpot said:
OP is a troll. OP posts option slanted towards argument and ghosts.

OP is a vermicious knid.
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Your Construct of who NB23 might, or might not be, is your own.
Your analysis of what NB23’s intent might, or might not be, is but a mere reflection of your own personnality and perception of the world, of which NB23-the-one does not particularly care.

But Bokeh, let’s discuss
 
Can bokeh be fixed?
 

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Bokeh, it's all a blur.
 
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