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
"from the makers of Plus-Gas and Gunk" as the adverts used to say
I have a middle-aged co-worker who calls her clients “extra” all the time. (I also once heard her refer to her son as her “flesh baby” so she’s maybe not a representative sample.)
I feel like I hear “a lot/too much” as a self-description among women in my social circle, re: worries that their personalities are exhausting for their friends/romantic partners.
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 16:43 (five years ago) link
"If you can't handle me at my worst, you don't deserve me at my best."
― Pontius Pilates (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 16:54 (five years ago) link
“flesh baby” to distinguish him from her spectral baby
― mick signals, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 17:02 (five years ago) link
probably to distinguish him from her [ew] "fur baby"
― Mordy, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 17:14 (five years ago) link
Q: What did the outdoor car park say to the garage?A: Sorry, I know I'm a lot.
― mick signals, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 17:21 (five years ago) link
Omg at flesh baby.
Yes, feeling like a burden for no real reason is sadly a thing for a lot of women. I’ve def used this in this context about myself. :(
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 18:24 (five years ago) link
sounds as enticing as "superfoods"
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 18:43 (five years ago) link
"minimalist" instead of "minimal""minimalistic" instead of "minimalist"it's, like, the opposite of minimal
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Monday, 6 May 2019 13:13 (five years ago) link
but doesn't minimalisitic refer specifically to *minimalism*? these words different meanings, I think
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 6 May 2019 13:38 (five years ago) link
words *have* different
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 6 May 2019 13:39 (five years ago) link
https://frinkiac.com/meme/S05E22/1063428.jpg?b64lines=QUgsIFlPVVIKIEZMRVNIIE1PVEhFUiBVU0VEIFRPCiBCUklORyBNRSBQVURESU5HLg==
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Monday, 6 May 2019 13:45 (five years ago) link