How can you hear the omission? Is it in their eyes?
― Alba, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 11:12 (four years ago) link
maybe 2020 will be the year the (correctly) hated apostrophe is omitted everywhere else also: let freedom reign (rain)!
― mark s, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 11:12 (four years ago) link
How can you hear the omission? Is it in their eyes?typing
― times 牛肉麵 (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 1 January 2020 11:19 (four years ago) link
TS: Happy New Years vs Daylight Savings
― kinder, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 13:14 (four years ago) link
Apologies in advance and, in way of explanation, I'm Scottish. It's that time of the year where I get annoyed at people saying Happy New Year before it's January 1st and, this will never stop being intensely annoying, pronouncing Auld Lang Syne as Auld Lang Zyne.
― Soup on my lanyard (Tom D.), Wednesday, 1 January 2020 13:20 (four years ago) link
s/b daylights saving, like attorneys general
― mark s, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 13:33 (four years ago) link
Passer bys
― Alba, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 13:47 (four years ago) link
^^^wanna destroy tbh
― mark s, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 13:59 (four years ago) link
number of daylights saved: 182
― times 牛肉麵 (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 1 January 2020 18:58 (four years ago) link
Next motherfucker with a corny-ass "2020 vision" pun will face sheer wrath
Thxbye
― Yeets don't fail me now (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 2 January 2020 22:08 (four years ago) link
"cringe"
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, December 22, 2019 9:34 AM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
fuckin happened again
if you describe anything as "so cringe" log out and cut off your hands imo
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 6 January 2020 20:28 (four years ago) link
TS: cringey or cringeworthy or cringe-inducing.
― pomenitul, Monday, 6 January 2020 20:36 (four years ago) link
the latter two are fine, "cringey" suspect, "so cringe" from the depths of hell
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 6 January 2020 20:52 (four years ago) link
"It's so concerning" = ugh ugh
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 January 2020 20:54 (four years ago) link
^^^ "Concerning" is the fucking worst.
I'm currently reading a book (academic study of pop music) that uses "problematic" as a fucking noun.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 6 January 2020 21:06 (four years ago) link
'Problematic' qua academic noun has been around for ages and is unrelated to wokeness.
― pomenitul, Monday, 6 January 2020 21:13 (four years ago) link
i think the pinefox started a thread about it
(or anyway a discussion in a thread, he was amused by what exactly academics think they're asking when they used it -- it's usually plural in the academic sense tho, maybe)
― mark s, Monday, 6 January 2020 21:37 (four years ago) link
It's so concerning
will they cancel the parade?
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 04:59 (four years ago) link
"my dude"
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 17:25 (four years ago) link
anthropocene
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Thursday, 9 January 2020 15:18 (four years ago) link
"step foot in" it's fucking SET foot fuiud
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, January 11, 2019 8:14 AM (eleven months ago) bookmarkflaglink
I know both usages have been around a long time but one is correct and the other makes me want to twist someone's foot off
― Brad C., Thursday, 9 January 2020 15:27 (four years ago) link
"nothing burger"
― Number None, Sunday, July 16, 2017 6:08 AM (two years ago)
― pomenitul, Tuesday, December 10, 2019 10:04 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 05:36 (four years ago) link
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, December 22, 2019 11:34 AM (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
‘we need to talk about _______’
― mookieproof, Sunday, December 29, 2019 2:33 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
any reference to Twitter as "this website"
― Number None, Tuesday, December 31, 2019 6:52 AM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
any reference to Twitter as "this bird app"
― groovemaaan, Tuesday, December 31, 2019 7:05 AM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
I haven't seen this but I like it :)
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 05:37 (four years ago) link
"DEEP DIVE" is becoming toxic. I didn't mind it at first (3 years ago), kinda liked it, now a contagion.
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