/lit/ - Literature

synonyms exist

cool circles anon

>>15974337
Those are some very cool circles and now they are mine.

>>15974337
they mean the same thing but the former is french/latin and the latter is greek

>>15974337
For me anyway, calm is the more ordinary word with a wider range of applications. For the emotional state of a person, calm is usually more appropriate than tranquil. "Stay calm," not "Stay tranquil," and so on.

you could just look up the definitions on google. this didn't need to be a thread

>>15975160
at least he posted cool circles. you posted a w*jak so fuck you

When I take off my glasses I can clearly see the 2 geometric circles without any illusion.

>>15975311
please don't swear, we of this board like to uphold certain standards regarding profanities

>>15975375
Ok I won't say w***k again

As a native English speaker my intuitive associations are slightly different for them but in practice they both basically mean "calm."

To me calm is more basic in meaning, it can apply to almost anything, like the weather is calm, or she was very calm when the event happened. But tranquil means something more enduring and significant, maybe. It also makes me picture (not strongly or visually but a suggestion of) an unusually pleasantly calm lake. Even while trying to write "it makes me picture a ____ lake," I was tempted to say a "tranquil" lake because of how well it "fit."

So when I say tranquil of a person, I mean something with that same grace and dignity. I wouldn't say "the cop remained tranquil during the incident" but I would say that someone seems very tranquil, either their personality or their general mood recently. "The weather is calm" is more direct, informational, "it's not stormy out." But "the weather is tranquil" feels more significant, like I'm implying it's unusually calm in a way that's beautiful or sublime.

I feel like a lot of English synonyms are similar, where there's an everyday word that most people say, and then there are words that almost mean the same thing but have slightly more weight or significance. "Placid" is another one that could theoretically mean calm or tranquil, but often has negative associations when I see it (denoting lethargy rather than inner peace, or docility as opposed to vigour). But I would be hard pressed to tell you the exact difference between "the lake was placid" and "the lake was tranquil" aside from this subtle feeling that they are different.

>>15975391
tranquil/tranquillity to me seems more appropriate when used as a synonym for 'peaceful' rather than calm, perhaps even 'harmonious', though it really does mean the same thing in general.

i just realised that they are called tranquillisers because they make the elephant calm when they shoot it

>>15974337
this effect doesnt work with a better resolution image. this is cheating because they dont really appear perfectly circular, ostensibly because of the quality if i give the image creator the benefit of the doubt

God damn this is fucking with my brain

>>15975490
This is what I am talking about. It doesn't work when the picture is cleaner