"DEEP DIVE" is becoming toxic. I didn't mind it at first (3 years ago), kinda liked it, now a contagion.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 05:37 (four years ago) link
like genital warts
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 05:38 (four years ago) link
I've noticed this for a few years now, but lots of people don't seem to understand what 'opaque' means. I just saw it used to describe a transparent piece of perspex.
― kinder, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 21:41 (four years ago) link
"[...]. That's it. That's the tweet."
― Sam Weller, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 09:14 (four years ago) link
I'm afraid the situation is even worse with "transparent," because it has acquired two functionally opposite meanings: the quality of not being hidden, and the quality of being invisible.
You can say that a government process is "transparent," meaning that everyone can ostensibly see what is going on.
You can also say that e.g. a cloud migration is "transparent to the user," meaning that you don't notice it happening and don't have to do anything.
It's like "oversight" meaning either carelessness or close attention.
― Yeets don't fail me now (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 11:26 (four years ago) link
heartlands
― nashwan, Thursday, 23 January 2020 14:30 (four years ago) link
all power to the overlooked organs
― mark s, Thursday, 23 January 2020 14:33 (four years ago) link
spleenlands
2020 "stop saying tonnes in metaphors when tons works fine" challenge
― mark s, Thursday, 23 January 2020 14:50 (four years ago) link
maybe liverlands should be the actual name for merseyside and thus labour's truest turf
― nashwan, Thursday, 23 January 2020 15:11 (four years ago) link
tuns 🛢️🛢🛢️🛢
(why no beer barrel emoji, only oil barrels)
― a passing spacecadet, Thursday, 23 January 2020 15:18 (four years ago) link
my analogy don't want none unless you got tonnes hun
― i've seen no good people (Neanderthal), Thursday, 23 January 2020 15:21 (four years ago) link
otm re opaque and transparent, I have now given up on working out what these actually mean except when used 100% literally about the see-through-ness of a material I can actually see (through, or not) there and then
further evidence that words mean anything which means they don't mean anything, also metaphors are bad
― a passing spacecadet, Thursday, 23 January 2020 15:21 (four years ago) link
also metaphors are bad
also similes are like a thing that is bad
― Okay, you're an ambulance (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 23 January 2020 16:38 (four years ago) link
no matter how many times I look it up, my brain cannot hold onto the meaning of "ornate"... it always reads as "featureless" or "plain" to me, even though I know that's wrong
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 23 January 2020 16:46 (four years ago) link
Nothing featureless or plain about The Shape Of Jazz To Come or Dancing In Your Head.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 23 January 2020 16:50 (four years ago) link
I always have to struggle to remind myself that "enervated" means drained of energy.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Thursday, 23 January 2020 17:18 (four years ago) link
Huh, I had no idea.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 23 January 2020 17:25 (four years ago) link
And that nonplussed means perplexed not unimpressed
― Alba, Thursday, 23 January 2020 20:56 (four years ago) link
it's all very plussing imo
― mark s, Thursday, 23 January 2020 20:58 (four years ago) link
'noisome' always confuses me
― koogs, Friday, 24 January 2020 04:35 (four years ago) link
I think the meaning of nonplussed is changing bcs so many people use it to mean unimpressed, esp. in the US(?)
― fetter, Friday, 24 January 2020 08:29 (four years ago) link
Restive another one like enervated The way ppl misuse nonplussed is so random and leaves me nonplussed - I have a crackpot theory I’ve mentioned before that it’s because it sounds a bit like “not fussed” maybe? Similar to how ppl think craven means shameless instead of cowardly cause it sounds a bit like brazen. Neither is probably true but it’s what my dumb brain came up with to explain everyone else’s dumb brains
― Baby yoda laid an egg (wins), Friday, 24 January 2020 09:22 (four years ago) link
Been reading up on kombucha brewing and every time I see Scoby I get angry.
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Friday, 24 January 2020 16:50 (four years ago) link
and I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids
― Okay, you're an ambulance (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 24 January 2020 17:08 (four years ago) link
Speaking to a calendar year as if it's a person, eg "2020 you SUCK!"
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 17:07 (four years ago) link
Go home, (year), you're drunk.
― Okay, you're an ambulance (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 17:18 (four years ago) link
"Second of all,"
― Deflatormouse, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 03:00 (four years ago) link
^^^^
makes me nuts
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 04:51 (four years ago) link
'aesthetic' used used to suggest one specific aesthetic
― I wanna publish memes and rage against machimes (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 04:59 (four years ago) link
"Thanks for coming to my TED talk" was bad enough when it became a meme, but now it seems to get talked on to like any opinion or affirmative statement as a sort of ironical "QED" which is not what I understood the meme to even mean.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 16:56 (four years ago) link
not into the word 'eatery'
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 16:57 (four years ago) link
re: 'TED Talk' - maybe it's time to ironically revive 'Rant over' at the end of long social media posts about quotidien bugbears
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 16:58 (four years ago) link
Don't like "good faith/bad faith".
― mirostones, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 17:04 (four years ago) link
many of you would never encounter most of these phrases if you logged out of twitter
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 17:25 (four years ago) link
"trolling"
― (darraghpc) vs (darraghmac), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 17:32 (four years ago) link
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, January 29, 2020 10:25 AM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
oooh otm, gonna die on this hill
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 17:32 (four years ago) link
Folks emphatically saying 'facts!' in reply, so annoying and ironic given the general shitshow we all inhabit at the moment.
― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 17:35 (four years ago) link
This, along with "whomst" and "period" are good signifiers for "unfollow this person"
― Montegays and Capulez (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 18:24 (four years ago) link
The handclap icon between each word in a Tweet is the worst. And mostly morons use it
― ... that's Traore! (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 18:28 (four years ago) link
“...and it shows”So petty!!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 18:46 (four years ago) link
― Maresn3st, Wednesday, January 29, 2020 12:35 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
This.
― Deflatormouse, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 20:08 (four years ago) link
We had an argument in my office today that divided the staff, it was regarding the correct past tense of "pet" which some were very, very insistent must be "petted" and could not be the more novel and apparently atrocious "pet" (as in "this my dog Bonito Flakes, he likes to be pet")... I united them against me by saying both usages were equally valid.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 20:49 (four years ago) link
pooted
― ... that's Traore! (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 20:52 (four years ago) link
Petterated
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 20:53 (four years ago) link
you could make the case for potten being an option
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 20:53 (four years ago) link
stroked
― ... that's Traore! (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 20:54 (four years ago) link
petté
― (darraghpc) vs (darraghmac), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 23:58 (four years ago) link
"... and it shows"
― groovemaaan, Thursday, 30 January 2020 05:33 (four years ago) link
"Passed" for "died" is fairly recent in UK English, I think (although we've had "passing", "passed away" and "passed on" for ages); certainly recent enough for me still to think "passed what?" whenever I hear it in conversation.
― fetter, Thursday, 30 January 2020 09:57 (four years ago) link