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 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, 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
See also: 'c'est too much'.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 13:14 (five years ago) link
Btw it's usually 'trop, c'est trop', i.e. 'enough is enough!'
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 13:16 (five years ago) link
Include me among the fuddies who've just begun hearing "extra" in 2019 -- so it must be spiking -- and who gruffly approve of it.
Similar newish usage, "Sorry, I know I was a lot last night!"?
― mick signals, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 13:25 (five years ago) link
Also not new.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 13:28 (five years ago) link
"I was a lot last night" has been around as long as I've been an adult that's gone out, at night
― mh, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 13:30 (five years ago) link
Amazing! I wonder why it's just trickling now into my circle. Citations?
― mick signals, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 13:35 (five years ago) link
it's a shortening of "a lot to handle" iirc
― mh, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 14:02 (five years ago) link
Never heard of it either.
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 14:02 (five years ago) link
how about "you're too much!"
― mh, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 14:09 (five years ago) link
Maybe it's a US/UK thing as well as an age thing?
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 14:17 (five years ago) link
Sometimes I can be a real pill when I'm drinking
― rip van wanko, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 15:10 (five years ago) link
"too much" is among the hipsterisms in 1960's "Alley Oop":
Look at that caveman go He sure is hip ain't he Like, what's happening He's too much
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXZPg0pm8YM
― mick signals, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 15:15 (five years ago) link
long-simmering hatred: I really hate "wide swath", especially when said aloud
― Simon H., Wednesday, 1 May 2019 15:20 (five years ago) link
or is it "swathe"?
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 15:22 (five years ago) link
swath is bad swathe is good
(it can be either acc.SOED: "the space covered by the sweep of a mower's scythe", and its various figurative evolutions)
― mark s, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 15:27 (five years ago) link
swarf is another one- the ultra sharp metal peeling byproducts in engineering works. just touch that stuff and it cuts your finger open!
― calzino, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 15:32 (five years ago) link
it is why swarfega is called swarfega (except i can't work out what the "ega" but means)
also "shoddy": crappy bits of wool left over after the weave gathered up and used to make (very inferior) textile
― mark s, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 15:35 (five years ago) link
In the UK, the word "Swarfega" may be used as a generic term for all similar cleaners, particularly if they have the same green jelly-like appearance as genuine Swarfega. According to the company website;[4]The name derives from “swarf”, being the old Derbyshire engineering term for oil and grease and “ega”, as in “eager to clean”.This may be a bit confusing, as "swarf" now commonly refers to the metal shavings and chips resulting from metalworking operations. The word did not originally mean oil or grease as Deb claimed, but rather the waste material from a grindstone (or similar material resulting from wear in a machine). This material would be a wet or oily mixture of grit abraded from the wheel and filings from the workpiece.
The name derives from “swarf”, being the old Derbyshire engineering term for oil and grease and “ega”, as in “eager to clean”.
This may be a bit confusing, as "swarf" now commonly refers to the metal shavings and chips resulting from metalworking operations. The word did not originally mean oil or grease as Deb claimed, but rather the waste material from a grindstone (or similar material resulting from wear in a machine). This material would be a wet or oily mixture of grit abraded from the wheel and filings from the workpiece.
!!
― mark s, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 15:36 (five years ago) link
I once had a job of cleaning carding machines of swarf with paraffin and rags, it was very riveting/character building stuff. My co-worker quit after an hour - i lasted 2 and a half days!
― calzino, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 15:39 (five years ago) link
This material would be a wet or oily mixture of grit abraded from the wheel and filings from the workpiece.
a resultant paste if you will
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 16:20 (five years ago) link
all my childhood lego was (is) in big swarfega tubs that dad took from work.
― koogs, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 16:26 (five years ago) link