'In this post-Covid-19 world…'
― Publius Covidius Naso (pomenitul), Thursday, 9 April 2020 20:24 (four years ago) link
Seeing how shit is fucked...
― rob, Thursday, 9 April 2020 20:26 (four years ago) link
I keep saying “in our new environment” to my students mostly referring to our online classroom but it works elsewhere as well
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 9 April 2020 21:07 (four years ago) link
After using "new normal" in a lecture last Monday, I ran to the bathroom and threw up.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 9 April 2020 21:15 (four years ago) link
You're not alone, Alfred:
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1722270787918
― Publius Covidius Naso (pomenitul), Thursday, 9 April 2020 21:17 (four years ago) link
Please provide us an approved list of phrases that we can use to talk about the potentially difficult 24-hour periods that we currently are experiencing, thanks― cuomo money, cuomo problems (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, April 9, 2020 4:23 PM (fifty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― cuomo money, cuomo problems (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, April 9, 2020 4:23 PM (fifty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
wish i could think of one that felt like the right balance of respectful, descriptive and casual! but i can't! "while things are tough" is close idk im not a magic wordman
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Thursday, 9 April 2020 21:25 (four years ago) link
"current shitshow"
― cuomo money, cuomo problems (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 9 April 2020 21:30 (four years ago) link
I’m happy to inform you that here in the Netherlands this terminology question has already been settled for us by our prime minister. According to him, we will be living in a anderhalvemetersamenleving, a “1.5-metre/5-feet society”, for the foreseeable future. I fully expect the rest of the world to follow this coinage pronto.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Thursday, 9 April 2020 22:05 (four years ago) link
'Mericans aren't gonna use no namby-pamby panty-waist commie Euro-units.
Gonna go with "gatorlength."
As in, "Cletus, you'd best stay a gatorlength away from me."
― cuomo money, cuomo problems (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 9 April 2020 22:18 (four years ago) link
thing about it is if I use the phrase trying times it sounds mellifluous and wonderful, of a piece with my tone and tongue and not at all jarringly
but if you hear it in your own local accent or with a tin ear or whatever that cannot be helped but should be lamented imo
― ole uncle tiktok (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 April 2020 22:21 (four years ago) link
I'm using "with all that's going on" with some success but I'm not 100% happy with it.
― closed beta (NotEnough), Saturday, 11 April 2020 07:14 (four years ago) link
This thread needs a part II; like the last-x-movies thread a couple of years ago, if you want to check to see if something's already come up, it takes five minutes and your computer will probably freeze the first time.
(Turned out I was checking on something that turned up three days ago, so loading the whole thread was unnecessary: "the new normal," which is back with a vengeance, ready to challenge Lil Nas X for most weeks at #1.)
― clemenza, Sunday, 12 April 2020 23:16 (four years ago) link
The combination "off of"
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 12 April 2020 23:50 (four years ago) link
fucking otm alfred, one of the very best posts in this entire thread
― karmic blowback for dissing pip and jane baker (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 13 April 2020 00:48 (four years ago) link
also, “inside of” and “outside of”
― karmic blowback for dissing pip and jane baker (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 13 April 2020 00:49 (four years ago) link
outside of a few exceptions?
― ole uncle tiktok (darraghmac), Monday, 13 April 2020 00:50 (four years ago) link
deems
― karmic blowback for dissing pip and jane baker (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 13 April 2020 00:51 (four years ago) link
I keep saying writers use "based off of" and I think, uh, don't your prose triggers sound? Even if you didn't know the correct phrase is "based on" in most cases, "based off of" is the visual equivalent of a booger in a pint glass.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 April 2020 01:06 (four years ago) link
saying = seeing
All those needless "of"s are present in common speech. Like many double negatives that are used simply for more emphatic negation, they're essentially harmless 'pillow words', unworthy of your ire. When they appear in formal settings, they are mere slips into vulgarity.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 13 April 2020 02:01 (four years ago) link
off've is not only fine, its good
― ole uncle tiktok (darraghmac), Monday, 13 April 2020 02:18 (four years ago) link
I like "based off of". The alliteration of the voiceless and voiced fricative sounds great.
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Monday, 13 April 2020 02:30 (four years ago) link
In poetry.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 April 2020 02:39 (four years ago) link
nah, anytime
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Monday, 13 April 2020 03:07 (four years ago) link
they're essentially harmless 'pillow words', unworthy of your ire.they’re like jamming 14 eggs into a carton made for 12
― karmic blowback for dissing pip and jane baker (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 13 April 2020 03:14 (four years ago) link
Who made the carton in that analogy?
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 13 April 2020 03:15 (four years ago) link
jesus
― karmic blowback for dissing pip and jane baker (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 13 April 2020 03:16 (four years ago) link
divinely mandated, eh?
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 13 April 2020 03:26 (four years ago) link
hosanna in eggshell sits
― ole uncle tiktok (darraghmac), Monday, 13 April 2020 03:28 (four years ago) link
that... that's just... I have no words
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 13 April 2020 03:31 (four years ago) link
"Off of" is the only way in Our Queen's English to explain which TV programme you've seen an actor in before.
― kinder, Monday, 13 April 2020 07:58 (four years ago) link
What's wrong with 'from'?
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Monday, 13 April 2020 08:24 (four years ago) link
Exactly, you need a from
"that's him from off of The Bill"
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Monday, 13 April 2020 09:43 (four years ago) link
Didn't Based Offov used to play up front for Bulgaria?
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Monday, 13 April 2020 10:00 (four years ago) link
I believe The Man Off Of UNCLE was one of the most popular TV shows of the 60s.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Monday, 13 April 2020 11:00 (four years ago) link
ricky gervaise offive the office
― ole uncle tiktok (darraghmac), Monday, 13 April 2020 11:03 (four years ago) link
'From' is kind of clunky, the Scottish 'fae' is much more elegant.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Monday, 13 April 2020 11:09 (four years ago) link
Round our way it's 'frae'
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Monday, 13 April 2020 11:09 (four years ago) link
Indeed.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Monday, 13 April 2020 11:10 (four years ago) link
outside of a horse, a dog is man’s best friend. inside of a horse it’s too dark to see.- bob marley
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 13 April 2020 11:17 (four years ago) link
I need an around the frae girl
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 April 2020 11:19 (four years ago) link
Bamboo earrins
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Monday, 13 April 2020 12:00 (four years ago) link
based off of is good and correct
― mark s, Monday, 13 April 2020 12:06 (four years ago) link
im professional sub editor, i sub it in even if its not there
― mark s, Monday, 13 April 2020 12:07 (four years ago) link
With "off" being transitive I thought it didn't need "of," but I defer to you.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 April 2020 12:09 (four years ago) link
rhythmic necessity
― ole uncle tiktok (darraghmac), Monday, 13 April 2020 12:11 (four years ago) link
Based af.
― coviderunt omnes (pomenitul), Monday, 13 April 2020 12:13 (four years ago) link
deems is correct, english has no actual rules except what feels good, to me — bob marley again
― mark s, Monday, 13 April 2020 12:16 (four years ago) link
Don't let dem fool ya
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Monday, 13 April 2020 12:25 (four years ago) link
Emancipate yourself off of mental slavery
- Bob Marley
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Monday, 13 April 2020 12:36 (four years ago) link