the worst sentence-filler is "obviously". some people pepper their sentences with that multiple times over.
― kinder, Sunday, 28 July 2019 17:00 (four years ago) link
oof and its metropolotan-nyc variant OOFAH are timeless and satisfying alternatives to "oh boy" or "good grief" etc.
I don't know how one would use "woof" though?
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 28 July 2019 17:13 (four years ago) link
I mean "oof" isn't even a word so much as a spontanous, gutteral exclamation
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 28 July 2019 17:14 (four years ago) link
I assume flappy finds the sympathetic "oof" or its near-synonym "woof" to be bad in typed communication, where it carries a faux spontaneity. I sort of sympathize but still I see how it's useful.
― mick signals, Sunday, 28 July 2019 17:30 (four years ago) link
I guess I don't hate "woof," but it's something I hear a lot that I don't want to say.
― billstevejim, Sunday, 28 July 2019 17:37 (four years ago) link
I guess american vernacular english has a shortage of good ways to express sympathy in a range of registers. You can sound lite, or you can sound somber, not enough else.
― mick signals, Sunday, 28 July 2019 18:00 (four years ago) link
oof and its metropolotan-nyc variant OOFAH are timeless and satisfying alternatives to "oh boy" or "good grief" etc.I don't know how one would use "woof" though?
same usage
― billstevejim, Sunday, 28 July 2019 18:02 (four years ago) link
Yes the ways to express sympathy without detail or saying “sorry” are very few. Oof is casual sorry-lite.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Sunday, 28 July 2019 18:44 (four years ago) link
woof different usage, can be approving for a start
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Sunday, 28 July 2019 22:00 (four years ago) link
i think the first person i heard say it was James Richardson, in football weekly, and he always seemed to say it at just the right time. an exclamation of surprise but variable as per dmac - can be admiring, can be damning. a bit like ' oh la la ' actually
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 29 July 2019 02:57 (four years ago) link
it's happening again
https://i.imgur.com/exV8GZZ.png
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Friday, 2 August 2019 12:27 (four years ago) link
keep it in the cigar box, people!
― ☮ (peace, man), Friday, 2 August 2019 13:27 (four years ago) link
gear's roommate to thread
― Criss Angel Raw: The Mindfreak Unplugged (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 2 August 2019 13:29 (four years ago) link
guessing that lady learned in English in India, where that usage of "cum" is more common than it is here in the US (for obvious reasons)
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 2 August 2019 13:51 (four years ago) link
not annoyed but v bemused at the emergence of "slapper" (in the US) to denote a song that slaps
― rob, Friday, 2 August 2019 15:56 (four years ago) link
Knee-slapper.
― pomenitul, Friday, 2 August 2019 16:00 (four years ago) link
this term has been around for over 20 years
― Οὖτις, Friday, 2 August 2019 16:01 (four years ago) link
Was blissfully unaware of its British & Irish meaning.
― pomenitul, Friday, 2 August 2019 16:06 (four years ago) link
ok some searching reveals you're right Outic, though it seems to have migrated from (bay area?) rap usage to more general application--I encountered it twice today. And if you are aware of the other meaning, this sub-headline is a little startling: https://www.thefader.com/2019/08/01/rosalia-j-balvin-con-altura-song-of-the-summer-el-guincho-frank-dukes
― rob, Friday, 2 August 2019 16:09 (four years ago) link
― ☮ (peace, man), Friday, August 2, 2019 6:27 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
😭
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Friday, 2 August 2019 16:20 (four years ago) link
― 2019OK plus bennu (wins), Friday, 2 August 2019 16:32 (four years ago) link
Also when ppl innocently fall into that trap it belongs in “words, usages and phrases that delight the shit out of you” obv
― 2019OK plus bennu (wins), Friday, 2 August 2019 16:35 (four years ago) link
English place names are a source of infinite delight:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorlton-cum-Hardy
― pomenitul, Friday, 2 August 2019 16:36 (four years ago) link
in the UK you'd just call this a spunk bed
― akm, Friday, 2 August 2019 19:08 (four years ago) link
Penistone takes the unsoggy biscuit
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Saturday, 3 August 2019 08:08 (four years ago) link
"woof" < "oof"
not that it matters... they're both trash
― flappy bird, Monday, 12 August 2019 05:23 (four years ago) link
stochastic
oh look a new term that still isnt going to do anything
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Monday, 12 August 2019 16:14 (four years ago) link
new term
Yes but no.
― pomenitul, Monday, 12 August 2019 16:16 (four years ago) link
maths is meant to annoy ppl
― mark s, Monday, 12 August 2019 16:18 (four years ago) link
yes but yes but no but look
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Monday, 12 August 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link
Stochastic af.
― pomenitul, Monday, 12 August 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link
as an american i enjoy "maths," it's cute
― flappy bird, Monday, 12 August 2019 17:00 (four years ago) link
do you do a lot of mathematic urself
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Monday, 12 August 2019 17:23 (four years ago) link
Good enough for Xenakis, good enough for me tbh.
― Euripedes' Trousers (Tom D.), Monday, 12 August 2019 17:54 (four years ago) link
xp No I'm horrible at it
― flappy bird, Monday, 12 August 2019 22:18 (four years ago) link
We tripped the light stochastic
― Rumspringsteen (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 12 August 2019 22:31 (four years ago) link
'automatic', in the context of, or as a misappropriated synonym for 'instant'. i seem to see this a lot - perhaps when someone is explaining the rules of a game: "that's an automatic lose". no! stop!
― meaulnes, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 14:33 (four years ago) link
Another interpretation is that people are using "automatic" instead of "instant" because automatic also carries the sense of something happening due to systemic conditions instead of the result of a volitional act. Anyone who has experience dealing with, say, Amazon customer support, can intuitively understand the frustration of being subject to the automatic while being promised the instant.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link
when you're writing and You Do This Thing instead of "this thing"
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:49 (four years ago) link
Sorry, This Thing is very current and is good not bad
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:55 (four years ago) link
fb otm itt over the past 48h.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:57 (four years ago) link
It's An Annoying Tic Popularized By David Foster Wallace That Is Insufferably Precious
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 17:03 (four years ago) link
this book from 1975 is amazing and Ballard rightly considered it one of the best books about politics ever writtenhttps://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fweb2.uwindsor.ca%2Fcourses%2Fleddy%2Fcreitz%2Fmajipoorbibliography_files%2Fmajipoor26.jpg&f=1
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 17:05 (four years ago) link
The cool kids are saying "automagically."
― Rumspringsteen (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 17:41 (four years ago) link
that does sound cool
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 17:48 (four years ago) link
"this thing" and This Thing have different uses
― ogmor, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 18:56 (four years ago) link
[ x ] is a Big Deal vs.[ x ] is a "big deal"
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 19:37 (four years ago) link
are we okay with dis ting
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 20:06 (four years ago) link
Depends
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 20:18 (four years ago) link
ok but how about dat ting
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 20:23 (four years ago) link