Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1916997-20160617171511/@comment-1916997-20160620143518

NickyHelp wrote:

CoolDudeAl wrote:

Hmcooper4 wrote: I hate to break it to you, but gossip is not always lies. according to Merriam-Webster, a gossip can be simply someone that reveals personal information about peoples lives. Not keeping secrets is merely ONE form of gossip. Gossip also can involve sensationalism and exageration of details, though it does not have to.

One way that I have always looked at gossip is simply telling someone else a fact or rumor about another person that you would be unwilling or uncomfortable expressing were the person in the same converstation. Now, by all counts, this is very rude behaviour, so on that point I agree. but gossip does not need to be false, or even exagerated information.

Again, though, we have strayed from the subject of the topic. (and I say we, since I am guilty as well). Let's try to keep this on topic, and discussions of gossip are not on topic (unless, of course, it is gossip about what could be coming for season 6, which is a whole 'nuther matter entirely). Oh, my bad, then Snow does gossip, but not keeping secrets. At any rate, telling someone you will keep a secret, and then telling someone else the secret, means you did not keep the secret and you are lying to the original person. So overall, Snow definitly has some dishonest personality traits, but I think part of the point of the show is everyone, whether hero or villain, has flaws.

As for on topic gossip, I wish we were getting some, because right now even the rumor mill has been pretty quiet, and with filming only a few weeks away, quite a few things should already be in the works. Hopefully we start hearing something soon, because the wait is killing me. Not true. Gossiping is where you talk and spread false rumors and stories. That is not what she is. You know that. Nope, Hmcooper is correct, gossip can be true things as well as false. And telling things you are supposted to keep quiet, like a secret, for example, would be gossiping. And really, instead of telling us we're wrong, why don't you go look up the word first:

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/gossip?s=t