Is there an Irish equivalent? Best I can guess is "ye"??
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 26 October 2023 11:08 (eleven months ago) link
"(x) is...... different"
maybe acceptable if you literally came up with it yourself as an offhand comment, but as a meme comment to repeat after any instance of remarkable ability or behaviour, welll..... DO BETTER
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 26 October 2023 11:10 (eleven months ago) link
I think ‘x is….different’ is similar to the studied inarticulateness of “ Is x a thing now?”
― Dr Drudge (Bob Six), Thursday, 26 October 2023 12:05 (eleven months ago) link
"Because … thing"
― Alba, Thursday, 26 October 2023 12:15 (eleven months ago) link
^i don’t know the origin of this but it always seemed sub-Whedon to me, and that’s not a compliment to Joss Whedon at all
― I’m going to get fined for being right, again (gyac), Thursday, 26 October 2023 12:17 (eleven months ago) link
internet speak was basically sub-whedon for a couple of decades there
― Left, Thursday, 26 October 2023 12:19 (eleven months ago) link
Yeah, the rot has been in place for a while
― I’m going to get fined for being right, again (gyac), Thursday, 26 October 2023 12:21 (eleven months ago) link
"studied inarticulateness" no doubt, but interestingly the terms for long-form journalistic writing already in use pre-thing are generally examples of a similar affect
i: an article (from 1700s; means "a thing") ii: a piece (from 1500s; means "a bit of a thing")iii: a feature (from 1850s; short for featured article, means "a thing we are publicly excited about") iv: an essay (from 1500s; means "i tried to write a thing")
― mark s, Thursday, 26 October 2023 12:27 (eleven months ago) link
v: wedding announcement/new job: some personal news 😏
― I’m going to get fined for being right, again (gyac), Thursday, 26 October 2023 12:37 (eleven months ago) link
It's this thing
― Alba, Thursday, 26 October 2023 12:37 (eleven months ago) link
that's not a thing. this is a thing: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/03/5d/92/035d925f690d6cc0dc620421b88b86d3.jpg
― Left, Thursday, 26 October 2023 12:57 (eleven months ago) link
Left is right (heh), this is a thing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Althing
― Breakfast at Tiffani Amber Thiessen's (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 26 October 2023 13:22 (eleven months ago) link
‘Some personal news’ has the same intonation as ‘a very special episode’.
― steely flan (suzy), Thursday, 26 October 2023 13:36 (eleven months ago) link
"y'all" seems to be everywhere.
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Thursday, October 26, 2023 5:56 AM bookmarkflaglink
well, I'm actually from the south, so it's part of our vernacular here
― real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Thursday, 26 October 2023 13:55 (eleven months ago) link
about to drop a lengthy rant? best to preface it with a
*deep inhale*
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 26 October 2023 14:26 (eleven months ago) link
Preaching to the choir requires a lot of hot air
― Evan, Thursday, 26 October 2023 14:32 (eleven months ago) link
It’s fucking abysmal, that
your fragile ears would probably melt the first time you heard someone point to a bunch of half-full glasses on a bar table and ask "are these y'all'ses?"
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Thursday, 26 October 2023 15:48 (eleven months ago) link
Yourns
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 26 October 2023 15:50 (eleven months ago) link
xp not if it was in the American south where it makes sense! Tom D I believe is speaking of people here(in the UK) who use it, in which case it’s kind of likehttps://i.postimg.cc/bwFHhxRY/IMG-1265.jpg
― I’m going to get fined for being right, again (gyac), Thursday, 26 October 2023 15:56 (eleven months ago) link
Y'all should be used everywhere by everyone, it's versatile and sonorous
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Thursday, 26 October 2023 15:57 (eleven months ago) link
that "look" thing on cable news. every talking head has to start their rant with "LOOK, here's the thing about trump..." and sometimes they have 4 talking heads and they ALL do it. i mean, we are looking. we are watching you speak. make your point. no need to preface. it must be in some How To Get Your Point Across On Cable News For Dummies book. but like i sad on another thread, it would make a sick drinking game. they do it 20 times an hour.
― scott seward, Thursday, 26 October 2023 15:58 (eleven months ago) link
not in every accent and certainly not mine
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Thursday, 26 October 2023 15:59 (eleven months ago) link
Yeah there are definitely American word usages that are cringey when used by non-Americans and expressions that originated from the UK that sound cringey to me when Americans use them …
― sarahell, Thursday, 26 October 2023 21:02 (eleven months ago) link
Also hearing “y’all” in certain American accents is also cringey to me
― sarahell, Thursday, 26 October 2023 21:04 (eleven months ago) link
that "look" thing on cable news. every talking head has to start their rant with "LOOK, here's the thing about trump..." and sometimes they have 4 talking heads and they ALL do it.
Australian cricketers have been prefacing every reply to every question with "Look" since there's been Australian cricketers being asked questions.
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 October 2023 21:17 (eleven months ago) link
Actually a lot of it is contextual re accents that aren’t Southern or AAVE … still I remember cringing in college hearing “y’all” from a housemate from New Jersey using it because she thought it was cute when my roommate from Tennessee said it…
― sarahell, Thursday, 26 October 2023 21:20 (eleven months ago) link
I once got a lesson from a Texan person about the subtle difference between "y'all" and "all y'all."
Note, I cannot precisely articulate it but they are different.
― Breakfast at Tiffani Amber Thiessen's (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 26 October 2023 21:35 (eleven months ago) link
obama did/does the 'look' thing a lot
― mookieproof, Thursday, 26 October 2023 23:54 (eleven months ago) link
all y'all means everyone in the group, y'all might just indicate some of many. if my friends Bobby and Jean introduce me to four of their acquaintances at the bar, and while everyone is standing there I say "y'all should come back to my place for whiskey after" the four acquaintances will assume I'm talking to Bobby and Jean and will likely not consider themselves invited too. But if I say "all y'all should come back to my place for a whiskey" then they know that they too are invited.
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Thursday, 26 October 2023 23:57 (eleven months ago) link
Thank you f hazel
― Breakfast at Tiffani Amber Thiessen's (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 27 October 2023 00:00 (eleven months ago) link
that is a v. good explanation
― mookieproof, Friday, 27 October 2023 00:13 (eleven months ago) link
Or, you could be talking to two members of a family and refer to them as "y'all," but if you say, "all y'all should come visit us some time" it means those two people and everyone else in their family even if the rest of the family is not present.
― Josefa, Friday, 27 October 2023 00:32 (eleven months ago) link
saw a twitter post turned into an instagram meme that was quite comprehensive of every phrase I hate:
"I did a thing""adulting""I'm not crying you're crying""I'm just gonna leave this here""This.""So that happened""My person""Fur baby""All the feels""The Struggle is real"
I'd also add: "So it begins" and about 700 other things
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 27 October 2023 01:06 (eleven months ago) link
do these awful things exist in languages other than english? maybe I should re-learn German. I have a feeling they don't allow this in German.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 27 October 2023 01:11 (eleven months ago) link
Ich weiß nicht, wer das hören muss
― real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Friday, 27 October 2023 01:14 (eleven months ago) link
Is just *chefs kiss*
Kill me
― #1 García Fan (H.P), Friday, 27 October 2023 01:55 (eleven months ago) link
Kill me being a phrase that’s terrible, not a response to *chefs kiss* (but if you were the type to say kill me, it’d be appropriate in that case)
― #1 García Fan (H.P), Friday, 27 October 2023 01:57 (eleven months ago) link
On that note, is there a worse acronym than kys?
― #1 García Fan (H.P), Friday, 27 October 2023 01:58 (eleven months ago) link
"Y'all" migrated out of the south and became a universal American expression decades ago. All y'all need to get over it. I'm still pissed that "youse" never gained similar acceptance, but I've gotten over that.
― read-only (unperson), Friday, 27 October 2023 02:05 (eleven months ago) link
There are certain times when the implied friendliness of "y'all" is unsuited to the occasion. "Youse need to shut the fuck up" is much better, for example.
― read-only (unperson), Friday, 27 October 2023 02:06 (eleven months ago) link
i like when Australians say reckon i reckon.
― scott seward, Friday, 27 October 2023 02:28 (eleven months ago) link
The accepted usage is “fuck all y’all.”
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 27 October 2023 02:30 (eleven months ago) link
(it used to just feel like a south thing to me for most of my life. i reckon.)
― scott seward, Friday, 27 October 2023 02:30 (eleven months ago) link
so weird seeing that word in isolation. It’s either whadayareckon? Or yareckon? Never a clearly enunciated “reckon”
― #1 García Fan (H.P), Friday, 27 October 2023 02:31 (eleven months ago) link
(i watched a lot of mcleod's daughters during the pandemic...we all had our ways of coping i reckon.)
― scott seward, Friday, 27 October 2023 02:36 (eleven months ago) link
It’s definitely still in use in the more countrified parts of the American south.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 27 October 2023 02:36 (eleven months ago) link
I reckon the bloody south’s stealing our bit
― #1 García Fan (H.P), Friday, 27 October 2023 02:40 (eleven months ago) link
I reckon the usage stems from a common source.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 27 October 2023 02:42 (eleven months ago) link
hillbillies without borders.
― scott seward, Friday, 27 October 2023 02:46 (eleven months ago) link
Bogan/hillbillie solidarity
― #1 García Fan (H.P), Friday, 27 October 2023 02:55 (eleven months ago) link