Americans describing all drugs of abuse as “narcotics
upthenoseness
― Kanye O'er Frae France? (Tom D.), Monday, 7 May 2018 09:25 (six years ago) link
i kinda miss when squares called everything dope. didn't matter what drug it was. he's been taking dope!
― scott seward, Monday, 7 May 2018 14:07 (six years ago) link
"dope fiend" is still the coolest term to me.
but that's not what this thread is for. i'm sick of hearing the word "benzo" all the time.
― scott seward, Monday, 7 May 2018 14:09 (six years ago) link
Adding -y to nouns, making them adjectives, especially prevalent in criticism ("It's a house-y vibe").
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 May 2018 14:19 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m54F9fIbTdg
― Millennial Whoop, wanna fight about it? (Phil D.), Monday, 7 May 2018 14:21 (six years ago) link
"It's a house-y vibe"
this is truly a nationwide phenomenon. no way to tell how everyone picked it up. probably from television. people on t.v. do it a lot.
shows like the simpsons definitely added things to everyday life. then comedians would use it and then everyone else. like if someone farted and they would get called Farty McFarterson or whatever. that was a nationwide phenom that PROBABLY originated with the simpsons?
― scott seward, Monday, 7 May 2018 14:25 (six years ago) link
no way to tell how everyone picked it up. probably from television.
Or maybe because "noun + y = adjective" has been a common English word formation strategy for like a thousand years?
Rainy, muddy, hairy, glassy, woody, leafy, papery, stringy, bony, meaty, watery, salty, windy, Stormy...
― NO REGERTS (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 7 May 2018 14:43 (six years ago) link
You know that's what not what I meant – I meant useless nothings like "It's the band's vibe-y record."
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 May 2018 14:49 (six years ago) link
but the way people do it now is different.
xpost
yeah what that guy said.
― scott seward, Monday, 7 May 2018 14:49 (six years ago) link
people do it with every word now.
― scott seward, Monday, 7 May 2018 14:50 (six years ago) link
pedantic-y
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 May 2018 14:50 (six years ago) link
the way people do it now is the same, and fine
― type your stinkin prose off me, ur damned qwerty uiop (wins), Monday, 7 May 2018 14:51 (six years ago) link
Okay, I just don't get why twelfth-century Anglo Saxons can coin words but 20th century Americans can't.
― NO REGERTS (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 7 May 2018 14:54 (six years ago) link
oh yeah – cooking shows and reviews are awful about it. "This has got a cinnamon-y, licorice-y, kind of bitter-y taste to it."
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 May 2018 14:54 (six years ago) link
― NO REGERTS (Ye Mad Puffin
Often these new words are embedded in flat, poorly conceived sentences.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 May 2018 14:55 (six years ago) link
“It’s a jazzy vibe” oh no
― type your stinkin prose off me, ur damned qwerty uiop (wins), Monday, 7 May 2018 14:56 (six years ago) link
"jazzy vibe" is awful because often the critic means "Oh, it's got horns" or "Oh, it's long."
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 May 2018 14:58 (six years ago) link
Actually it means they’re reviewing bobby hutcherson
― type your stinkin prose off me, ur damned qwerty uiop (wins), Monday, 7 May 2018 15:00 (six years ago) link
"Okay, I just don't get why twelfth-century Anglo Saxons can coin words but 20th century Americans can't."
they can and do and it can also annoy. hence this thread.
― scott seward, Monday, 7 May 2018 15:02 (six years ago) link
u mean its annoyy
― .b derf (darraghmac), Monday, 7 May 2018 15:08 (six years ago) link
"Yo Aethelfred, hwaet's up with this weather? Woden's nutsack, it hath been raining a lot lately."
"Thou spake sooth and art on the money, Lothar. It hath been 'rainy,' by my trow."
"Let me estop you there, homeflice! What is uppe with everymanne just wantonly putting a Y on the end of nouns and yclepting it an adjective? What the fucke?"
― NO REGERTS (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 7 May 2018 15:11 (six years ago) link
the thing is it is less "inventing new words" and more "being lazy"
ditto for everyone thinking lame puns are funny because we know they are lame and thus it's a hilarious meta joke and not just, you know, being lazy
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 7 May 2018 15:36 (six years ago) link
"lazy" is a fake idea
― valorous wokelord (silby), Monday, 7 May 2018 15:42 (six years ago) link
laze-y
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 May 2018 15:47 (six years ago) link
actually that's a good example of how things have changed. back in the day it used to be La-Z
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Monday, 7 May 2018 15:56 (six years ago) link
incredible post ymp
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 7 May 2018 16:03 (six years ago) link
haha yes!
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Monday, 7 May 2018 16:06 (six years ago) link
Woden's nutsack
― valorous wokelord (silby), Monday, 7 May 2018 16:08 (six years ago) link
whan that aprille with his shoures soote
― F# A# (∞), Monday, 7 May 2018 16:36 (six years ago) link
punching up / punching down
get a new excuse for why it's ok for u to punch but not for someone else
― Mordy, Wednesday, July 5, 2017 10:38 AM (ten months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i feel like i've seen this phrase like 200 times this week
― marcos, Monday, 7 May 2018 18:39 (six years ago) link
vibes are vibes, vibey is vibey, there are no modifiers
― brimstead, Monday, 7 May 2018 18:45 (six years ago) link
literally never heard vibes used without a modifier
― I am George III, I went a little cray (rip van wanko), Monday, 7 May 2018 18:52 (six years ago) link
https://img.discogs.com/nsa8ORSn-bsk_VBclfsFken4mHs=/fit-in/500x493/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-6741737-1425687237-7316.jpeg.jpg
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Monday, 7 May 2018 18:55 (six years ago) link
He played the vibraphone that does NOT count sir
― I am George III, I went a little cray (rip van wanko), Monday, 7 May 2018 18:58 (six years ago) link
― I am George III, I went a little cray (rip van wanko), Monday, May 7, 2018 11:52 AM (twenty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
we care
― brimstead, Monday, 7 May 2018 19:17 (six years ago) link
I'm not emotionally invested in this debate either tbh just passing the time
― I am George III, I went a little cray (rip van wanko), Monday, 7 May 2018 19:53 (six years ago) link
sorry that was mean
and very un-vibey
― brimstead, Monday, 7 May 2018 19:54 (six years ago) link
― marcos, Monday, May 7, 2018 2:39 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it's been a while since i've been subjected to this but reminds me of "good / bad faith"
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 05:46 (six years ago) link
"good faith / bad faith" much worse obv
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TSRVgI15OQYMP post is all-time
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 06:05 (six years ago) link
BEST phrase/words i read this morning. spent my morning reading shaw letters. this at the end of a 1908 letter to h.g. wells:
"Now I swear that the next time you take that attitude in my presence I will ask you for a farthing paper of pins. I will make a decent public man of you yet, and an effective public speaker, if I have to break your heart in the process."
― scott seward, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 14:20 (six years ago) link
is that an actual expression or did he make that farthing paper of pins thing up?
the whole letter is great and very emo. there is even a great all caps moment. message board pioneer.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 14:21 (six years ago) link
Oh shit ymp, im so glad i wandered to this thread.
― Hunt3r, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 14:49 (six years ago) link
There's something really depressing about liberals trying to turn the word "snowflake" back on conservatives, like bullied kids sniffling "no, YOU'RE a loser!"
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 17:39 (six years ago) link
"fur babies"
― Yerac, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 17:40 (six years ago) link
xpost OTM. ban all attempted-cutting-humor usages by simpleminded tribalistic democrat tweeters responding to conservative bots and trolls imho.
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 17:41 (six years ago) link
I am trying to figure out the farthing paper of pins.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 17:43 (six years ago) link
wastin' away again in ilxorvillefiguring out a farthing paper of pins
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 17:47 (six years ago) link
kinda stumped me too. i mean i know what that is, but the way he uses it...
oh wait maybe he means he will use the pins to deflate h.g.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 17:48 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-Z7MAgLV14
― Kanye O'er Frae France? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 17:49 (six years ago) link