What you’re describing is the new popular and also wrong use of this great and useful and specific word which fills a legitimate lexical gap. I’m not hating on you. I’m just very passionate about this. Liminality is a great concept, great term, very useful. Turning it into “le creepy empty room with le slenderman” as is popularly becoming is very irritating to me because we already have words to more or less accurately describe that.
No, not really: a liminal space is a space that is in between spaces that we want to use.
Quote Wikipedia:
In architecture, liminal spaces are defined as “the physical spaces between one destination and the next.” Common examples of such spaces include hallways, airports, and streets.
I think it also has to be a bit off. Like an empty mall, but evety store is a Gap, or an empty swimming pool, but there are no ladders, or exit doors.
Something like that.
What you’re describing is the new popular and also wrong use of this great and useful and specific word which fills a legitimate lexical gap. I’m not hating on you. I’m just very passionate about this. Liminality is a great concept, great term, very useful. Turning it into “le creepy empty room with le slenderman” as is popularly becoming is very irritating to me because we already have words to more or less accurately describe that.
No, not really: a liminal space is a space that is in between spaces that we want to use.
Quote Wikipedia:
But it appears that current speak has changed the word to give it this meaning of eerieness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liminal_space/_(aesthetic)