based on that wikipedia article, I'd identify that backrooms stuff as just yer basic "objective correlative" for a particular kind of dread that has been showing up in post-armageddon films and stories for half a century at least. otherwise known as "here's the church and here's the steeple, open the doors, where are all the people?"
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 15 April 2024 18:43 (one month ago) link
This post resonates with me (I do not resonate with it): https://annehelen.substack.com/p/i-resonate-with-that-nails-on-chalkboard
― jaymc, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 12:44 (four weeks ago) link
"Do you like this post? Are you already thinking of all the people you want to forward it to and debate it with? Consider Subscribing! Support the things THAT RESONATE WITH YOU"
Heh
― banana-flavoured potatoes, “bonatoes”, (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:18 (four weeks ago) link
speaking of xennials...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/magazine/singles-rom-com.html
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 18 April 2024 14:52 (three weeks ago) link
Steward / stewardship … it alternately makes me think of the Dickies song “if stewart could talk” or flight attendants…or the Love Boat … I don’t hate it, it is just annoying because the meanings in my head are so unrelated to the intended meaning
― sarahell, Saturday, 20 April 2024 00:29 (three weeks ago) link
Since I read that thing about resonating I have heard three separate people (in two different states/time zones) say they resonate with xyz
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Saturday, 20 April 2024 05:24 (three weeks ago) link
tbf I know he can be a bit abrasive at times but he's often otm
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 20 April 2024 08:28 (three weeks ago) link
just after seeing thread i was walking near my teen’s blaring blabbering phone i immed noticed a woman saying “…MADE SO THAT IT RESONATES WITH U AND…” so yeahtoday’s vibes
― schrodingers cat was always cool (Hunt3r), Saturday, 20 April 2024 15:05 (three weeks ago) link
"source of truth"
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Saturday, 20 April 2024 17:14 (three weeks ago) link
Got a "welcome in" from a doctor the other day.
― jaymc, Saturday, 20 April 2024 18:11 (three weeks ago) link
I’m even a fan of “I appreciate you” because it’s not a referendum am I good y/n it’s an appreciation.― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, October 30, 2023 6:20 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglinkI love “I appreciate you.” This is the worst fucking thread. :-(― brimstead, Monday, October 30, 2023 6:54 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglinkI don't think I have ever heard "I appreciate you" outside the southern U.S., but I am a fan.― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, October 30, 2023 7:03 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglinkI have, and it’s a perfectly nice thing to say.― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, October 30, 2023 7:09 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, October 30, 2023 6:20 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink
I love “I appreciate you.” This is the worst fucking thread. :-(
― brimstead, Monday, October 30, 2023 6:54 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink
I don't think I have ever heard "I appreciate you" outside the southern U.S., but I am a fan.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, October 30, 2023 7:03 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink
I have, and it’s a perfectly nice thing to say.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, October 30, 2023 7:09 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink
I appreciate you has begun to make inroads at my workplace in the past few months. I enjoy seeing it written to me in an email, but it feels so intimate that I'm uncomfortable writing or saying it myself. I've definitely told colleagues, "I appreciate it," or the more casual "Much appreciated." I hadn't thought too deeply about those before now, but in the light of I appreciate you, they do seem to put a little distance between the speaker and the receiver. So, I'm a fan, but it doesn't feel natural enough for me to say yet.
― peace, man, Monday, 22 April 2024 11:46 (three weeks ago) link
its stilted to my ears, i couldnt see where id ever hear it or use it where it wouldnt come out as a bit....much
but its a game of opinions and we are all using these phrases in very different contexts
people who take issue with the less formal versions of any such sentiment are a little weird tho i think
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 22 April 2024 11:51 (three weeks ago) link
"sando" for sandwich
― pj, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 23:28 (two weeks ago) link
is that an australianism?
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 23:31 (two weeks ago) link
Japanese-ism
― steely flan (suzy), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 23:33 (two weeks ago) link
Yeah, and it's a term I only recently came across — an Asian fusion food cart that I buy from sells three different "sandos" (pork, chicken, and fish), and they're all good but that term is very annoying.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 23:46 (two weeks ago) link
TBF "sando" the word is Japanese so kinda doesnt count here.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 23:49 (two weeks ago) link
"Sanga" is the Australianism.
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 2 May 2024 01:03 (one week ago) link
― reggae mike love (polyphonic)
Useful jargon with a specific meaning sorry
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, 2 May 2024 02:24 (one week ago) link
sanger wokkas mate
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 May 2024 07:52 (one week ago) link
yeah nah
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 2 May 2024 08:28 (one week ago) link
What about "sarnie"?
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 May 2024 08:56 (one week ago) link
also bad
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 May 2024 09:07 (one week ago) link
V bad.
Just call it a damn sandwhich. Cutesy nicknames that aren't any shorter drive me nuts. Brekkie, Crimbo, sunnies etc.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 2 May 2024 09:19 (one week ago) link
we had a place here that went the other way and it was worse - 'wiches
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 2 May 2024 09:30 (one week ago) link
Americans often use the vile ‘sammiches’, so nobody is covering themselves in glory here.
― steely flan (suzy), Thursday, 2 May 2024 09:49 (one week ago) link
Never heard either of those thankfully.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 2 May 2024 10:05 (one week ago) link
I don't mind "resonates".
It's a shorthand way of saying "that thing you've just described is really meaningful to me, but it would probably be too boring and unrelatable to explain, so I'm just going to say 'resonates'"
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 2 May 2024 10:22 (one week ago) link
The word "resonate" itself isn't the issue, it's saying "I resonate with x" instead of "x resonates with me."
― jaymc, Thursday, 2 May 2024 12:51 (one week ago) link
'i resonate with x' makes more logical sense to me. i'm the one reacting, the x isn't doing anything.
― ledge, Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:14 (one week ago) link
following the logic of the analogy it does make more sense for the object to resonate than the subject
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:24 (one week ago) link
Agree with J - "i resonate with x" sounds very strange to me the same way that it sounds weird to me when people here say "you suit green" rather than "green suits you".
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:26 (one week ago) link
I resonate with sarnies.
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:37 (one week ago) link
._.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:40 (one week ago) link
I have gotten used to it but I still will sometimes think of it literally… like sandwiches causing the speaker’s voice to become an operatic vibrato
― sarahell, Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:43 (one week ago) link
I definitely don’t say it… it also sometimes makes me think of vibrators and like the person getting off sexually on the inspirational meme about collective farming
― sarahell, Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:47 (one week ago) link
Sarnies resonate with me = Sarnies get a sympathetic response from me
I resonate with sarnies = I get a sympathetic response from sarnies
― Kim Kimberly, Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:52 (one week ago) link
isn't Sarnies that theatre bar in NYC
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:55 (one week ago) link
physically speaking that just seems completely the wrong way round (i know it's what we old folk have always said)
― ledge, Thursday, 2 May 2024 15:02 (one week ago) link
I wonder if "I resonate with x" has become more popular recently because of analogous constructions like "I vibe with x" and "I fuck with x."
― jaymc, Thursday, 2 May 2024 15:24 (one week ago) link
my guess is yes
it's another way of saying vibe with
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 2 May 2024 15:32 (one week ago) link
Or more often sammies — which tbh of all of these I don't mind.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 2 May 2024 15:34 (one week ago) link
who wants a hammy sammy
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 May 2024 15:42 (one week ago) link
Federal prosecutors can indict them iirc
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 2 May 2024 15:47 (one week ago) link
Both the sandwich infantilism and the resonating are usages I have come to accept but I still don’t like and never say … and have to consciously avoid having a negative facial expression in response
― sarahell, Thursday, 2 May 2024 17:13 (one week ago) link
I used to really hate the term “apps” to refer to appetizers, but I have come to accept it. I still reflexively think of the scene in “The Thick of It” where the Tory minister has to say “I call app Britain” and his obvious annoyance at it
― sarahell, Thursday, 2 May 2024 17:16 (one week ago) link
https://y.yarn.co/8278afd4-3549-4980-8d55-4f30bd4b82db_text.gif
― mookieproof, Saturday, 4 May 2024 03:12 (one week ago) link
imo, the creation and use of diminutives should remain in the exclusive domain of Australians. Doesn’t feel right any other way. Get your own culture, ya know?
― H.P, Saturday, 4 May 2024 03:26 (one week ago) link
Liverpool might say the Australians are the thieves here.
― steely flan (suzy), Saturday, 4 May 2024 05:54 (one week ago) link
xps gif notwithstanding, no Aussie would call them fckn “sandos” unless trying to pretend their cafe is a konbini. For starters it would cause massive confusion with the Sandringham Hotel in Melbourne. Which IS the Sando.
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 4 May 2024 08:03 (one week ago) link