Subject | Re: Calumet files Chapter 7 |
From | Tony Cooper |
Date | 03/28/2014 21:16 (03/28/2014 16:16) |
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Except that "flood" *isn't* "equally usually" meant to describe something negative. A flood itself is a natural disaster and a negative thing. However, we use "flood" in a positive way most of the time when we use it as a descriptive term.Tony CooperSandman
For example, there was an onslaught of objections to Miley Cyrus's "twerking" performance. When it's a description of a large number of positive responses, we're more likely to say something like "a flood of supporting tweets".
A flood is equally usually meant to describe something negative. Maybe you mean words like "abundance", "plethora", "excess" or "surplus" just to mention a few words that are synonyms but with a more positive or at least neutral connotation.