Topic: Tag Alias: lithe -> slim

Posted under Tag Alias and Implication Suggestions

Lithe is more an indicative of flexibility rather than a specific thinness of body. Even though Rufus from SFIV is fat as fuck, he's lithe, for a great example.

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123easy said:
Lithe is more an indicative of flexibility rather than a specific thinness of body. Even though Rufus from SFIV is fat as fuck, he's lithe, for a great example.

Too specific imo, I agree with the current alias.

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Fluttershy said:
Too specific imo, I agree with the current alias.

Someone with their feet on their head is lithe. If they are over 400 pounds and are 5 feet tall but can still do that, they are lithe and fat, most definitely not thin. That's not too specific, that's 'completely different ballparks of meaning'.

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Genjar said:
Thesaurus.com lists slender, slim and thin as synonyms for lithe. Which are all grouped under the slim tag.

As a tag, lithe seems to be used in the same way as slender. Whereas flexibility is tagged as flexible.

Using the abominable thesaurus.com (seriously, they and their sister sites use one of the shittiest dictionaries, I swear) it straight up states,

"lithe O.E. liðe "soft, mild, gentle, meek," from P.Gmc. *linthijaz (cf. O.S. lithi, O.H.G. lindi, Ger. lind, O.N. linr, with characteristic loss of "n" before "th" in Eng.), from PIE base *lent- "flexible" (cf. L. lentus "flexible, pliant, slow"). In M.E., used of the weather. Current sense of "easily flexible" is from c.1400."

and the dictionary.com definition at least gets it right as, "bending readily; pliant; limber; supple; flexible: the lithe body of a ballerina."

Theasaurus.com states the primary synonyms for it are, "flexible, graceful and slender". We usually associate flexibility with thin things because thinner things tend to be easier to bend, so it has gotten conflated somewhat because of laypeople not caring how they use it, but that doesn't mean that thin = lithe.

This all said- The tag definitely is being used as a synonym of slender and should be either cleaned and aliased to flexible, just aliased to invalid_tag, or aliased to slim as originally stated (really wouldn't prefer that).

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No objections here.
Flexible would need some minor cleanup after the alias, but lithe isn't exactly a common tag so I don't expect that to be much of a problem.

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