We talked about high-key on the "misusing words" thread. Though I also ilx searched it and it's been used on this borad going back a ways
― rob, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 20:10 (one year ago) link
From dictionary.com: Low-key would appear to have musical origins, characterizing something has having a deeper, more muted, or darker tonal register. We can find low-key for “of a low pitch” in the early 19th century. Charles Dickens, for instance, wrote of it that way in his 1844 novel Martin Chuzzlewit:
"She continued to sidle at Mr. Chuffey with looks of sharp hostility, and to defy him with many other ironical remarks, uttered in that low key which commonly denotes suppressed indignation."
I always assumed low-key was a musical thing first, but I don't know that I've ever heard high-key in common usage, or ever actually
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 20:36 (one year ago) link
The examples I found are p interesting. It tends to get used deliberately as a playful contrast to low-key, but not always. I also think it sounds less weird when it's not being attached to "into" or "obsessed":
What were the low and high points of your day?Lorde - Melodrama (2017)It is the 2018-19 NBA Playoffs discussion thread for hoops friends ONLYUS Politics: July 2020 - "Denigrating this Luxury Avenue"Is SPIN really circling the drain?Is anybody else watching The Expanse?
― rob, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 21:21 (one year ago) link
the "right" thing is a scourge and anyone who does this needs to take a good look in the mirror
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 23:53 (one year ago) link
"[celebrity did a thing] and we have questions" as a headline needs to die in a fire
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 13:07 (one year ago) link
This is the way the world ends, not with a "like," but a "right?”
― peace, man, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 13:32 (one year ago) link
When I was a kid I remember seeing something in an old joke book where a father says to his son "I've got two words I want you to stop using, one is 'swell' and the other is 'lousy'" and the kid says "sure dad, what are the words?".
Now I am the dad and the words are "OP" and "sus"
― joygoat, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 17:20 (one year ago) link
THANK YOU
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 17:32 (one year ago) link
my 13yo cycles through new superwords for “great” every month or so.OPbrazydubs
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 17:33 (one year ago) link
does OP stand for something?
― rob, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 17:40 (one year ago) link
overpowered, like a weapon in a game
― jmm, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 17:46 (one year ago) link
I kinda love Twitch lingo and emotes but I'm too old to say them out loud
― jmm, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 17:52 (one year ago) link
I don't really mind sus, which I hear constantly from my 9-year-old. And it played a vital part in this exchange which I will probably remember forever:
-Look at that bus. It's sus. The sus bus.-What's sus about it?-...It doesn't look like a regular bus.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Thursday, 27 October 2022 04:16 (one year ago) link
https://fachordscdn-16d90.kxcdn.com/static/chords/images/a/sus2/a-sus2-pos-1.png
― blissfully unawarewolf (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 27 October 2022 05:20 (one year ago) link
Just about every time I've posted here, it's been some phrase that is either meaningless or where there was already some perfectly acceptable way of expressing the same thing. Here's an annoying phrase that actually documents a useful idea that nobody thought to keep track of until the last decade: swing-and-miss (not as a verb, but as a counting stat). I think tonight's WS broadcasters have said it 10 times already.
― clemenza, Saturday, 29 October 2022 01:39 (one year ago) link
"Swing and a Miss" would be a good title for a big-band-plus-girl-singer album.
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 29 October 2022 07:16 (one year ago) link
“whiff” gets the job done better imo
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 29 October 2022 08:13 (one year ago) link
^ otm and also deeply versed in the lingo
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 29 October 2022 17:32 (one year ago) link
i think a lot of podcasters say "right"― Karl Malone, Tuesday, October 25, 2022 1:51 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, October 25, 2022 1:51 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink
ime the worst offender of this is Nate Silver
― jaymc, Saturday, 29 October 2022 17:46 (one year ago) link
Re "high-key," the slang usage is pretty recent but it has apparently used in lighting/photography contexts for a while.
https://books.google.com/books/content?id=aGDiSYdDmJYC&pg=PA49&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U3sIOdpgjQZpiOjDXqYwbo1cTZX6A&w=1280
― jaymc, Saturday, 29 October 2022 17:53 (one year ago) link
"Sunsetting".
― mirostones, Thursday, 10 November 2022 19:02 (one year ago) link
haha -- did you also get the email from google analytics today?
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 10 November 2022 19:52 (one year ago) link
I most certainly did.
― mirostones, Thursday, 10 November 2022 20:36 (one year ago) link
"deep dive"
― maelin, Saturday, 26 November 2022 16:20 (one year ago) link
otm
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 26 November 2022 22:04 (one year ago) link
deep deep diveSo-socialize
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Saturday, 26 November 2022 22:06 (one year ago) link
people who misuse "longue durée" as a fancy way of saying "long term" can gtfo
― budo jeru, Sunday, 27 November 2022 19:13 (one year ago) link
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Monday, 28 November 2022 01:35 (one year ago) link
what term would you use instead?
― mark s, Monday, 28 November 2022 11:38 (one year ago) link
thought experimentevidence-based investigationsnorkeling without a snorkel(that it could mean any one is problematic?)
― youn, Monday, 28 November 2022 11:45 (one year ago) link
"something more than the superficial lip service i usually engage in"
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 28 November 2022 13:53 (one year ago) link
snappy AND inviting
― mark s, Monday, 28 November 2022 13:59 (one year ago) link
Deep-throat service.
― Alba, Monday, 28 November 2022 14:50 (one year ago) link
In-depth exploration?
― put a VONC on it (suzy), Monday, 28 November 2022 15:41 (one year ago) link
personally i've got no issue with deep dive? what's the problem? sure you can say "in-depth exploration" but why bother when you can say "deep dive"?!
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, 28 November 2022 15:44 (one year ago) link
adults that refer to a group of peers as "kids" as a form of infantilizing comradery
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Monday, 28 November 2022 16:53 (one year ago) link
I think these phrases are mostly scapegoats for do-nothing co-workers and managers who say things instead of do them, like phatic shirking
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Monday, 28 November 2022 17:12 (one year ago) link
lol i read that as phatic shrieking, which also seems accurate. i love the verb shriek.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, 28 November 2022 17:26 (one year ago) link
i have a coworker who says students need to learn to "task initiate". in meetings he talks about how we can help them "task initiate". he uses it out loud with students. "ok guys, you need to start thinking about how to task initiate today". these are seventh graders, so thinking about how to get started when a teacher gives you a task is a good skill, but the way he says "task initiate" drives me nuts. i think maybe it's the combination of new-fangled jargon for old concept (in my day we called it "getting started", and we walked uphill in the snow both on the way to school and the way back) combined with total disregard for english grammar
― the late great, Monday, 28 November 2022 17:36 (one year ago) link
sure you can say "in-depth exploration" but why bother when you can say "deep dive"?!
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, November 28, 2022 7:44 AM (six days ago)
thank you for making me think about why this phrase annoys me ... because it does ... and I think these are the reasons why:1. its trendiness / use by people/writers who are annoying in other ways as well2. what follows is often not very deep tbh ... they might discuss something for a longer duration (e.g. more time, more words) than a summary, but it doesn't really go very deep. Like duration does not equal depth
― sarahell, Sunday, 4 December 2022 20:06 (one year ago) link
the "conversation" "around" pretty much anything
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Monday, 5 December 2022 01:10 (one year ago) link
join it!
― maf you one two (maffew12), Monday, 5 December 2022 01:25 (one year ago) link
brb just going to break down a silo or two
https://myfox8.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2018/04/silo.jpg?w=1280
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 5 December 2022 16:48 (one year ago) link
you clearly know how to task initiate, Tracer!
― sarahell, Monday, 5 December 2022 18:44 (one year ago) link
I think this "speaks" "to" the wider cultural conversation around pretty much anything.
― fetter, Monday, 5 December 2022 19:33 (one year ago) link
what we talk about when we talk about words, usages, and phrases that annoy the shit out of us
― sarahell, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 03:50 (one year ago) link
'cope' and 'cry more'
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Friday, 9 December 2022 19:11 (one year ago) link
"flop" instead of "dive"
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Saturday, 10 December 2022 17:07 (one year ago) link
deep flop
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Saturday, 10 December 2022 17:10 (one year ago) link
think the annoyance with "deep dive" is like when writers call a song a "deep cut" just because it wasn't a single, which is really fucking annoying, it's true.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Saturday, 10 December 2022 17:15 (one year ago) link