Well it's an animal I suppose.
― Fronted by a bearded Phil Collins (Tom D.), Sunday, 23 October 2022 10:25 (one year ago) link
you have 2 big beasts inside you
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Sunday, 23 October 2022 10:33 (one year ago) link
The verbal tic of academics of my generation is not "like" but "right?"— Rafael Walker (@raf_walk) October 24, 2022
"annoy the shit out of you" is a little strong, in general, but i do notice when people pepper their conversations with "right?". i don't think most people intend to be doing this, but i think in effect it creates a weird pressure on the listener to nod or say "right" or confirm that the other person is right, even when they're not sure that the other person is "right", or not sure even what point they're trying to make
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 18:48 (one year ago) link
i think a lot of podcasters say "right"
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 18:51 (one year ago) link
right?
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 18:56 (one year ago) link
...thinks....I can’t take this pressure, right?
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 18:57 (one year ago) link
can something be simply whelming? Does it have to be over/under?
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:01 (one year ago) link
over under around and throughthat's how daffy duck wipes his poo
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:03 (one year ago) link
whoops, extremely RONG thread
I'm afraid I've reached the point where I'm annoyed with young people saying "Obsessed with" as in "Obsessed with Kate Bush putting instructions for how to listen to her albums on the sleeve" and I know they're not really obsessed with it, it's just something they thought was notable and might get some likes but I still want to shout back "No, you're not".
Also "cackling at".
― Alba, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:33 (one year ago) link
what about 'low-key obsessed'? does the qualifier improve it at all?
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:35 (one year ago) link
i think it does
but full disclosure i just typed "low key stressing" on social media so i have kind of a rooting interest in it for the moment
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:38 (one year ago) link
but maybe the difference is, i really *am* low key stressing that the frozen cheese pizza is upside down
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:39 (one year ago) link
Have we discussed the back-formation of "high-key" from "low-key"?
I live with a teenager who uses "high-key" as the opposite of "low-key." They will say, "I'm low-key into Genshin Impact," then say, "I'm high-key into Ensemble Stars."
It's comprehensible and arose naturally (as many such locutions do) but it rubs my ears the wrong way.
― blissfully unawarewolf (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:51 (one year ago) link
I don't mind "obsessed with" too much because in the 90s everyone on youth TV said "obsessed by" which irritated me no end. I don't even know if it's grammatically incorrect; I just don't like it.
― kinder, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:57 (one year ago) link
Low- and high-key were terms used in photography decades ago to describe predominantly under- or over-exposed printing as aesthetic choices.
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 20:09 (one year ago) link
We talked about high-key on the "misusing words" thread. Though I also ilx searched it and it's been used on this borad going back a ways
― rob, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 20:10 (one year ago) link
From dictionary.com: Low-key would appear to have musical origins, characterizing something has having a deeper, more muted, or darker tonal register. We can find low-key for “of a low pitch” in the early 19th century. Charles Dickens, for instance, wrote of it that way in his 1844 novel Martin Chuzzlewit:
"She continued to sidle at Mr. Chuffey with looks of sharp hostility, and to defy him with many other ironical remarks, uttered in that low key which commonly denotes suppressed indignation."
I always assumed low-key was a musical thing first, but I don't know that I've ever heard high-key in common usage, or ever actually
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 20:36 (one year ago) link
The examples I found are p interesting. It tends to get used deliberately as a playful contrast to low-key, but not always. I also think it sounds less weird when it's not being attached to "into" or "obsessed":
What were the low and high points of your day?Lorde - Melodrama (2017)It is the 2018-19 NBA Playoffs discussion thread for hoops friends ONLYUS Politics: July 2020 - "Denigrating this Luxury Avenue"Is SPIN really circling the drain?Is anybody else watching The Expanse?
― rob, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 21:21 (one year ago) link
the "right" thing is a scourge and anyone who does this needs to take a good look in the mirror
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 23:53 (one year ago) link
"[celebrity did a thing] and we have questions" as a headline needs to die in a fire
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 13:07 (one year ago) link
This is the way the world ends, not with a "like," but a "right?”
― peace, man, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 13:32 (one year ago) link
When I was a kid I remember seeing something in an old joke book where a father says to his son "I've got two words I want you to stop using, one is 'swell' and the other is 'lousy'" and the kid says "sure dad, what are the words?".
Now I am the dad and the words are "OP" and "sus"
― joygoat, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 17:20 (one year ago) link
THANK YOU
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 17:32 (one year ago) link
my 13yo cycles through new superwords for “great” every month or so.OPbrazydubs
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 17:33 (one year ago) link
does OP stand for something?
― rob, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 17:40 (one year ago) link
overpowered, like a weapon in a game
― jmm, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 17:46 (one year ago) link
I kinda love Twitch lingo and emotes but I'm too old to say them out loud
― jmm, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 17:52 (one year ago) link
I don't really mind sus, which I hear constantly from my 9-year-old. And it played a vital part in this exchange which I will probably remember forever:
-Look at that bus. It's sus. The sus bus.-What's sus about it?-...It doesn't look like a regular bus.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Thursday, 27 October 2022 04:16 (one year ago) link
https://fachordscdn-16d90.kxcdn.com/static/chords/images/a/sus2/a-sus2-pos-1.png
― blissfully unawarewolf (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 27 October 2022 05:20 (one year ago) link
Just about every time I've posted here, it's been some phrase that is either meaningless or where there was already some perfectly acceptable way of expressing the same thing. Here's an annoying phrase that actually documents a useful idea that nobody thought to keep track of until the last decade: swing-and-miss (not as a verb, but as a counting stat). I think tonight's WS broadcasters have said it 10 times already.
― clemenza, Saturday, 29 October 2022 01:39 (one year ago) link
"Swing and a Miss" would be a good title for a big-band-plus-girl-singer album.
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 29 October 2022 07:16 (one year ago) link
“whiff” gets the job done better imo
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 29 October 2022 08:13 (one year ago) link
^ otm and also deeply versed in the lingo
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 29 October 2022 17:32 (one year ago) link
i think a lot of podcasters say "right"― Karl Malone, Tuesday, October 25, 2022 1:51 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, October 25, 2022 1:51 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink
ime the worst offender of this is Nate Silver
― jaymc, Saturday, 29 October 2022 17:46 (one year ago) link
Re "high-key," the slang usage is pretty recent but it has apparently used in lighting/photography contexts for a while.
https://books.google.com/books/content?id=aGDiSYdDmJYC&pg=PA49&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U3sIOdpgjQZpiOjDXqYwbo1cTZX6A&w=1280
― jaymc, Saturday, 29 October 2022 17:53 (one year ago) link
"Sunsetting".
― mirostones, Thursday, 10 November 2022 19:02 (one year ago) link
haha -- did you also get the email from google analytics today?
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 10 November 2022 19:52 (one year ago) link
I most certainly did.
― mirostones, Thursday, 10 November 2022 20:36 (one year ago) link
"deep dive"
― maelin, Saturday, 26 November 2022 16:20 (one year ago) link
otm
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 26 November 2022 22:04 (one year ago) link
deep deep diveSo-socialize
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Saturday, 26 November 2022 22:06 (one year ago) link
people who misuse "longue durée" as a fancy way of saying "long term" can gtfo
― budo jeru, Sunday, 27 November 2022 19:13 (one year ago) link
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Monday, 28 November 2022 01:35 (one year ago) link
what term would you use instead?
― mark s, Monday, 28 November 2022 11:38 (one year ago) link
thought experimentevidence-based investigationsnorkeling without a snorkel(that it could mean any one is problematic?)
― youn, Monday, 28 November 2022 11:45 (one year ago) link
"something more than the superficial lip service i usually engage in"
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 28 November 2022 13:53 (one year ago) link
snappy AND inviting
― mark s, Monday, 28 November 2022 13:59 (one year ago) link
Deep-throat service.
― Alba, Monday, 28 November 2022 14:50 (one year ago) link
In-depth exploration?
― put a VONC on it (suzy), Monday, 28 November 2022 15:41 (one year ago) link