Four Words: Use Other Words Please

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I reject your zoology.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 17 November 2003 11:38 (twenty-two years ago)

And barely drive.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 17 November 2003 11:38 (twenty-two years ago)

you guys kill me.
the mileage thing -- what does that mean?

― enrique (Enrique), Monday, 17 November 2003 11:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Two Words: is only funny if the phrase is very ostensibly NOT two words.

― Citizen Kate (kate), Monday, 17 November 2003 11:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Two words: In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

― Sam (chirombo), Monday, 17 November 2003 11:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Nah, doesn't work.

― Sam (chirombo), Monday, 17 November 2003 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)

See, that is funny.

― Citizen Kate (kate), Monday, 17 November 2003 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Enrique, I am assuming the mileage thing means 'you may disagree'. A kind of 'IMHO' variant that is equally vague and redundant and somehow even more smug and shit.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 17 November 2003 12:03 (twenty-two years ago)

i don't think it works, as a metaphor.

― enrique (Enrique), Monday, 17 November 2003 12:05 (twenty-two years ago)

No, it is rubbish.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 17 November 2003 12:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Is it (the mileage thing) in adverts or something? I mean I suppose it is but I've never seen it.

― Sam (chirombo), Monday, 17 November 2003 12:10 (twenty-two years ago)

This is a nasty little thread.

(Nick, curly Jackie asked after you yesterday. She sends her love)

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 17 November 2003 12:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Hurray for curly Jackie. I send my love back. She's a cracker.

You're right - this thread is nasty.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 17 November 2003 12:13 (twenty-two years ago)

nasty like janet

i've seen nastier

― enrique (Enrique), Monday, 17 November 2003 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think it's that bad: it's generaly used as an acknowledgment of the fact that different people like different things. Its use is mildly ironic, since the original use (car commercials) was about how things are objectively rather than subjectively different (oh, my sides etc.)

N: have you been seeing a sudden upsurge in this recently? I've been seeing YMMV for about 10 years, on and off.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 17 November 2003 12:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Research indicates that N. now hates every single US ILXer.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 17 November 2003 12:15 (twenty-two years ago)

(and Pashmina)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 17 November 2003 12:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I've only just noticed it.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 17 November 2003 12:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't hate people for saying things. That would be ridiculous.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 17 November 2003 12:20 (twenty-two years ago)

so you like enoch powell?

― enrique (Enrique), Monday, 17 November 2003 12:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think he likes people for saying things.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 17 November 2003 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)

his mileage varies

― athos magnani (Cozen), Monday, 17 November 2003 12:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't hate Enoch Powell. Anyway, he's dead.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 17 November 2003 12:47 (twenty-two years ago)

--I have no problem with that
--We'll make it happen
--End of story
\
(that's three different ones, by the way)

― Skottie, Monday, 17 November 2003 21:14 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

ILXors use "creepy" way too damn much and much more than the rest of the population. Is this a throwback to the 50s?

― Creepy Weirdo, Thursday, 13 October 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

why does every goddamn description of a southern (US) accent call it a "drawl"?? USE OTHER WORDS, PLEASE

― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 11 July 2011 16:54 (fourteen years ago)

Drawing your vowels out = drawl

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drawl

They use it because it's a readily recognizable feature of a dialect and it's quick and easy to say compared to "dialect" or "way of speaking" or "he drags out his vowels"; and "southern accent" sounds weird to some people because they associate accents with other languages.

― bamcquern, Monday, 11 July 2011 20:44 (fourteen years ago)

my point is that some - many? most? - southern accents are not drawls

― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Friday, 15 July 2011 16:51 (fourteen years ago)

people who call their computer a "'puter"

― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Friday, 15 July 2011 16:51 (fourteen years ago)

or a pooter

― kkvgz, Friday, 15 July 2011 19:28 (fourteen years ago)

meta
ad hominem

― kkvgz, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 12:00 (fourteen years ago)

(not singling out the latest post by kdt, btw. I've been tired of these two for a long while)

― grit of ad hominem (kkvgz), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 12:01 (fourteen years ago)

three years pass...

Today I learned on Twitter that some people call sunglasses "sunnies"

ffs why

― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Monday, 24 November 2014 18:34 (eleven years ago)

sunglasses successor will be along shortly to explain it all.

― estela, Monday, 24 November 2014 19:09 (eleven years ago)

― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Monday, 24 November 2014 19:13 (eleven years ago)

four months pass...

"You do you"???? I've never heard anyone say this and would at least briefly contemplate hitting someone who did.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/magazine/how-you-do-you-perfectly-captures-our-narcissistic-culture.html

― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 16:20 (eleven years ago)

three years pass...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DyF8FiUWkAYZDdI.jpg

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 16:44 (seven years ago)

ugh

― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 20:33 (seven years ago)

instantiation

like, is "instance" not good enough for you

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 20:39 (seven years ago)

The term was originally coined by Coca-Cola as "throat share",[2] in order to measure how much of the world's beverages were theirs, but is now more commonly referred to as share of throat.[3]

― mick signals, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 20:49 (seven years ago)

Today I learned on Twitter that some people call sunglasses "sunnies"

ffs why

Those same people call sandwiches "sammies". I can't help but hear that in a widdle kid voice.

― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 21:06 (seven years ago)

I'll allow both if you're Australian, otherwise no.

"Share of throat" is a nightmare.

― emil.y, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 21:08 (seven years ago)

I was about to say. FFS why? Because Australia.

― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 21:46 (seven years ago)

instantiation

like, is "instance" not good enough for you

― Οὖτις

i kind of enjoy this from a descriptivist perspective. first it gets established with the meaning "process of instantiating", then once that's happened somebody forgets what the product of instantiating is and the word "instantiation" pops into their head. i find it endearingly silly.

― The Elvis of Nationalism and Amoral Patriotism (rushomancy), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 18:00 (seven years ago)

"Share of throat" is clearly a vampire term

― jmm, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 18:03 (seven years ago)

sammies for sandwiches is American, not Australian; FP'd emily.

― sans lep (sic), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 20:05 (seven years ago)

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