That use of 'quirk' is the author saying "gee, I'm such a cutie, aren't I?" Your annoyance is understandable, because it's not really cute enough to outlast the third date.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 17:26 (six months ago) link
Sadly, Donald Trump is still alive today.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 17:30 (six months ago) link
I can't recall ever encountering "quirk" used like that before, but Merriam-Webster includes it as a standard definition and dates its back to the 19th century.
― rob, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 17:30 (six months ago) link
Lol I was just begging to be proven wrong etymologically! I’ve been seeing it a lot more in fantasy books published maybe after 2010 or so, I wonder if there’s an identifiable patient zero I can blame.
― Astarion Is Born (Leee), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 17:34 (six months ago) link
yeah it seems rare enough (afaict) that I wouldn't be surprised if there was a single popularizer!
― rob, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 17:37 (six months ago) link
It was one of the handful of phrases that notoriously recurred dozens of times in 50 shades
― cozen itt (wins), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 17:48 (six months ago) link
ah ha / oh no
― rob, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 17:51 (six months ago) link
That usage of quirk is so annoying. But etymologically it makes sense, "quirky" is the not-straight, the slightly off, the irregular.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 17:51 (six months ago) link
Tell all the truth but tell it quirk
― Premises, Premises (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 17:58 (six months ago) link
i'm pretending that this talk about quirk being a synonym for smirk never happened
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 18:09 (six months ago) link
genderquirk
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 18:23 (six months ago) link
"You just proved these signs work."
No I didn't, leave me alone.
― jmm, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 18:28 (six months ago) link
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, March 26, 2024 2:09 PM (fifty-four minutes ago)
oh I should have said that that's not quite right. It's that "quirk" as a verb means "to curve or twist" (so you can quirk your mouth into a smirk)
― rob, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 19:12 (six months ago) link
It's really annoying when somebody uses "quirk" as a name.
https://i.postimg.cc/br04vMZC/quirk.jpg
― clemenza, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 19:15 (six months ago) link
Hilariously, one of the bibles of descriptive English grammar (A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language) is referred to by many as "the quirk book" because one of the authors is Randolph Quirk!
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 19:25 (six months ago) link
Fine for eyebrows, pushing it for mouths, hesitate to even imagine for anything else
― ን (nabisco), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 20:22 (six months ago) link
Man, my dick sure is quirking today
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 01:20 (six months ago) link
Lol
― H.P, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 09:48 (six months ago) link
His mouth twerked at the corner
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 20:39 (six months ago) link
Something that drives me berserk when I'm editing fiction manuscripts is what I call "disembodied parts action" like "His eyes rolled" or "Her fists clenched." Also, I don't know which YA writer pioneered the verb "huff", as in, "'I can't believe it!' she huffed," but that person should be set on fire.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 20:54 (six months ago) link
and huffed on
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 21:04 (six months ago) link
that person should be set on fire
well you don't need to get so huffy about it
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 21:35 (six months ago) link
Gettin huffy on my Huffy
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 21:36 (six months ago) link
The Amador Club, formerly Wingtip, a haberdashery with a barber shop and wine cave that was geared toward wealthy Silicon Valley and FiDi finance workers, plans to offer seasonal oysters and caviar bumps alongside craft cocktails...
what's the consensus on 'caviar bumps'?
Oh, and this new spot is members only
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 29 March 2024 22:56 (six months ago) link
i think it's shoving fish eggs up your nose
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 29 March 2024 23:05 (six months ago) link
using a key that only members have
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 29 March 2024 23:07 (six months ago) link
I've had caviar a couple times and just don't see the appeal
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 29 March 2024 23:11 (six months ago) link
well you obviously weren't pushing it up into your nose, the way the rich and connected do
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 29 March 2024 23:15 (six months ago) link
aiui a 'caviar bump' refers to a serving of caviar washed down with well-iced champagne. the existence of such a thing is outside my personal experience, but the rumors of it have reached me.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 30 March 2024 01:06 (six months ago) link
I did somehow go to a party in a big house where they had caviar, which I (accidentally) dropped on the floor and rubbed it into the carpet. I then got another and nobody noticed. I remember that but no idea where it was or how I got there. anyway it was shit
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 30 March 2024 02:21 (six months ago) link
British people pronouncing Gen Z as Gen Zee.
― The Prime of the Ancient Minister (Tom D.), Monday, 1 April 2024 12:33 (six months ago) link
I’ve never once heard Gen Zed uttered by anyone
― Premises, Premises (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 1 April 2024 13:23 (six months ago) link
That's because they don't want to confuse it with General Zod.
― Astarion Is Born (Leee), Monday, 1 April 2024 13:31 (six months ago) link
gen zee is correct because all of this stuff only really applies to yanks tbh
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 1 April 2024 20:28 (six months ago) link
"appearances can be deceiving"&"beloved" 2 syllables with a swallowed e
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Monday, 1 April 2024 20:52 (six months ago) link
so do you say striped or stri-ped
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Monday, 1 April 2024 21:14 (six months ago) link
different word, false equivalency.
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 06:01 (six months ago) link
see: adjective vs past forms of "to learn"
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 06:03 (six months ago) link
I don't think it's the fact that people are welcoming people that is the issue. I welcome people all the time at work and it would be weird not to. It's the weird phrase "welcome in". I have never heard nor used that in my life.
So I was in the US last week and I have to report that I heard this phrase no less than 3 times. I heard it both used both in Florida and in Mass. Still don't like it but at least I know you all weren't pulling my leg.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 08:30 (six months ago) link
the only rule with stuff like belov'd vs belovèd is to use the one you need for the meter
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 16:39 (six months ago) link
People need to stop calling things "Love Lies Bleeding." It only makes me think of Hemorrhage in My Hands by Fuel. This can be applied retroactively to Elton John and Victorian botany and anything else, as well.
― meatster of puppets (peace, man), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 17:57 (six months ago) link
It's a good Thompson Twins song
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 18:04 (six months ago) link
No, ONLY the Elton song should be allowed to keep it
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 18:06 (six months ago) link
The Nik Kershaw I Won't Let the Sun Go Down on Me is also superior
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 18:08 (six months ago) link
but not to the george michael duet obv
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 18:46 (six months ago) link
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 20:17 (six months ago) link
Is there a generations timeline, maybe a flowchart available online somewhere? I can never remember the difference between gen Z(ed) and millennials. If I was born in 1968 (which I was) am I gen X? And what would someone born in the early 1960s be? Also, there wasn't a post-war baby boom in the UK I don't think, so 'boomers' hardly works. Maybe 'rationers'?
― continue without dissembling (Matt #2), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 20:23 (six months ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation#List_of_social_generations
― rob, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 20:25 (six months ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Generation_timeline.svg/1920px-Generation_timeline.svg.png
― rob, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 20:26 (six months ago) link
not sure why Alpha isn't 2013-28, but if that's a sign we're giving up on some of the more obtuse aspects of this bs then I applaud it
― rob, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 20:29 (six months ago) link