They Really Should Have Separate Words For This
One of my ongoing projects that shall never be completed is the maintenance of my Visual Reference Folder. Because tagging pictures takes forever I generally create an endless variety of folders with as accurate and specific labels I can think of. Very frequently doing this reveals a lot of the shortcomings of the english language to me. Case in point, the biggest folder in my visual references is the pose folder where I try to have a reference of just about anything a human being is capable of doing (as I said this is an endless project) and frequently I find myself frustrated by the limitations of what to call these things.
Currently my pet peeve is the verb “sitting” mainly because it’s an act I have been having happen quite a bit in the strip and have the hardest time’s finding a reference for. Now you will say what are you talking about? There’s tons of pictures of people sitting!
Yes, I reply. But those are pictures of people sitting, as in the act of resting their buttocks, as their center of gravity, either on the ground or piece of furniture specifically for this purpose. What I was looking for are references of people slowly lowering their buttocks down onto the ground or that piece of furniture to achieve the former.
Try explaining the difference in a Google image search. It’s nitpicking I know but I still say their should be two separate words for two separate verbs.
