... not to mention Chorlton & the Wheelies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo6C_CebBqc
― Freddie Starr (Hitler in shorts) (Tom D.), Sunday, 28 April 2019 17:52 (five years ago) link
the cum wheelies, call them by their name
― mark s, Sunday, 28 April 2019 17:56 (five years ago) link
also: in latin it certainly means "with", but in english (as for example in that new yorker tweet) it doesn't mean "with", it's something more like "a cross between" -- hence it *isn't* latin and is only being put in italics to indicate it doesn't mean jizz (which of course draws even more attention to this meaning it doesn't have but can't shake off)
(lol shake off)
― mark s, Sunday, 28 April 2019 17:59 (five years ago) link
RIP chorlton on medlock
― ogmor, Monday, 29 April 2019 08:09 (five years ago) link
Getting increasingly pissed off with "gifted", which no-one (apart perhaps from lawyers) used in the UK until about five years ago, as I recall. We were all perfectly happy with "given" and "gave" back then. I heard a radio DJ announce at the weekend that Bowie had "gifted" All The Young Dudes to Mott the Hoople, which is almost certainly not the case.
― fetter, Monday, 29 April 2019 12:01 (five years ago) link
i saw 'mouse' used as a verb earlier today.
https://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2019/04/20-years-ago-microsoft-changed-how-we-mouse-forever/
i mouseyou mousewe mouse
― koogs, Monday, 29 April 2019 12:03 (five years ago) link
"mouse over" has been computer-speak for "hover" for more than 20 years!
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 29 April 2019 12:11 (five years ago) link
I have never heard that before.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 29 April 2019 12:11 (five years ago) link
there's a JavaScript "event" called "onmouseover" which means "when the user puts their arrow over this bit"
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 29 April 2019 12:23 (five years ago) link
i will admit this is pretty niche
gift as a verb goes back to at least to milton, mouse as a verb is as old as cats
nouns becoming verbs has been an utterly absolutely basic process in (and strength of) english since the elizabethans at least tbh, if it genuinely distresses you go learn some other weedier language with declensions or equivalent nonsense
― mark s, Monday, 29 April 2019 12:36 (five years ago) link
calvin is correct, hobbes is wrong
― mark s, Wednesday, July 26, 2017 8:49 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― mark s, Monday, 29 April 2019 14:02 (five years ago) link
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mouse#Verb . 1988 for computer mousing (mouse-over is, i think different, and more common). but there are 4 other definitions there i'd never heard of (a mouser, i guess is a thing that cats can be)
― koogs, Monday, 29 April 2019 16:14 (five years ago) link
"Please and thank you" is a trash way to ask for things
― p.j.b. (pj), Monday, 29 April 2019 16:29 (five years ago) link
calvin is correct, hobbes is wrong― mark s, Wednesday, July 26, 2017 8:49 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― milkshake chuk (wins), Monday, 29 April 2019 16:34 (five years ago) link
one that drives me nuts in my office is "sunset", as in "we'll be sunsetting this program over the next few months"
― One Eye Open, Monday, 29 April 2019 16:42 (five years ago) link
It drives me nuts when people abbreviate ‘thanks’ (an abbreviation itself) to ‘thx’.
― suzy, Monday, 29 April 2019 16:50 (five years ago) link
sry
― After Cease to Brexist (Noodle Vague), Monday, 29 April 2019 16:51 (five years ago) link
THANKING YOU
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 29 April 2019 17:18 (five years ago) link
'thx' is better than being gushed upon
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 29 April 2019 17:21 (five years ago) link
hey we've all got our own kinks
― After Cease to Brexist (Noodle Vague), Monday, 29 April 2019 17:23 (five years ago) link
It drives me nuts when people abbreviate ‘thanks’ (an abbreviation itself) to ‘thx’
okay "suzy"
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 29 April 2019 17:26 (five years ago) link
Ta.
― Freddie Starr (Hitler in shorts) (Tom D.), Monday, 29 April 2019 17:27 (five years ago) link
Can we at least agree that ‘thanx’ is a bit infra dig?
― suzy, Monday, 29 April 2019 17:33 (five years ago) link
I can see how 'thankyou' could be used as a noun - as in 'he'd been given so many thankyous it was starting to get embarrassing'. Clumsy (and ugly), but has a grammatical logic.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Monday, 29 April 2019 18:22 (five years ago) link
― One Eye Open, Monday, April 29, 2019 12:42 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
omg change jobs now even if it's taco bell for a season just GET OUUUTTT imo
― rip van wanko, Monday, 29 April 2019 18:25 (five years ago) link
That 'thankyou' was supposed to be on the 70s album thread! Duh.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Monday, 29 April 2019 19:50 (five years ago) link
4 lettin me be mice elf
― Pontius Pilates (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 29 April 2019 23:48 (five years ago) link
This recent adoption of "extra" as something of an abbreviation for extravagant.
"They had alpacas as ring bearers, it was so extra!"
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 10:14 (five years ago) link
Never heard of that one.
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 11:03 (five years ago) link
how cringe
― fetter, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 11:23 (five years ago) link
my kids say this thing now all the time when they're mocking someone (which is all the time) which sounds like:"GAH-dee!"i assume it's fortnite related, like everything else they do. it drives me up the wall (which I'm sure is part of the point)
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 11:38 (five years ago) link
I can get grumpy as fuck about some "the youth using old words in new ways" things, and the likes of the casual "decimate," but my first "extra" was a thrilling moment. seeing an entirely new context around an ancient word (or word fragment), grokking it completely at once, and raising an invisible salute to whatever millennial in a purple crop-top had presumably conceived it.
I like onimo's attempt to translate it as a contraction of extravagant, too, a usage surely never contemplated by any of the first 200 ppl to deploy it in its new form
― blokes you can't rust (sic), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 23:44 (five years ago) link
taking it back for the old ppl
― deemsthelarker (darraghmac), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 23:53 (five years ago) link
Booming post sic
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 02:23 (five years ago) link
yea 'extra' = histrionic (m/l)
I'm paying more attention to basketball these days..."looks" kind of drives me up the wall. Confined to shot-taking--"he had some open looks"--it's somewhat bearable. Defensively--"you can expect the Sixers to give Kawhi some new looks tonight--it grates.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 02:34 (five years ago) link
if there are no good looks, you'll have to get it inside to the bigs
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 02:37 (five years ago) link
pound it inside and get the rock to the cup.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 02:47 (five years ago) link
I'm with sic, I love new usages and fucking with language. I think this generation of teens are super good at it - they're hyper-literate and the dominant cultural vibe seems to be one of jamming and undermining. I love the shitty repurposed memes, deep fried images, grammar hacking, embracing lameness, and the-reference-is-the-message. I'm sure "extra" just comes from the "an added extra" sense, it's a bonus (whether wanted or not).
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 02:49 (five years ago) link
"the shitty repurposed memes, deep fried images, grammar hacking, embracing lameness, and the-reference-is-the-message" - enjoyed reading this
― Dan S, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 03:15 (five years ago) link
"I like onimo's attempt to translate it as a contraction of extravagant, too, a usage surely never contemplated by any of the first 200 ppl to deploy it in its new form." Yeah, I've never thought of it in this way before and don't expect that's the origin but it works!
About 5 mins after I read Onimo's post yesterday one of my co-workers referred to a meeting we're trying to arrange with some famous ppl as being "so so extra". I thought of this thread and smiled. It's not really a new thing though, is it? Feel like it's been around at least a couple years.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 09:00 (five years ago) link
more -- it's tumblrspeak from five-six years ago at least
(the ppl i know that said it then are all now in their early 30s) (i.e. mid-range millennials)
― mark s, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 09:21 (five years ago) link
Yeah, I thought so.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 09:35 (five years ago) link
I don't mind "extra," and I see it in kinship with similar usages from earlier generations. I can see like a free-spirited young woman in a miniskirt and boots in a 60s movie saying "Oh, Trish, you're so VERY," or "too TOO," and having it mean the same thing. Even just "you're too much" is not far off, and that's firmly idiomatic.
― Pontius Pilates (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 10:18 (five years ago) link
isnt that direct from french or
ooooh c'est trop and all that
― deemsthelarker (darraghmac), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 10:20 (five years ago) link
only ilx can make fetch happen (when we delete this thread)
― mark s, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 10:21 (five years ago) link
F Kogan's "superwords" to thread
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 10:49 (five years ago) link
As a Star Wars fan I've been exposed to "extra" for a few years now because there's a segment of fandom devoted to discussing Darth Vader in just that way, e.g.
https://www.ranker.com/list/darth-vader-is-hilariously-extra/jacob-shelton
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 12:08 (five years ago) link
we just call things “ott” among us olds
― mh, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 13:14 (five years ago) link