there's a sports media story today on which hockey players are 'most unique' and i had to restrain myself
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 20:00 (four years ago) link
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/da/b6/75/dab6756c5f15759ac87100e772097254.gif
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 20:22 (four years ago) link
in re: cringe. it is getting play because it is new and different. it will fade soon because it will become old and overdone. then we can move on to the newest cringe-inducing slang.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 20:24 (four years ago) link
Seems like every new response to Covid-19 is "a potential game-changer" - I'm starting to suspect that this phrase just means that they've found another way to make disaster capitalism work in their favor, because the game of actually saving people's live isn't changing all that much.
― BrianB, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 20:47 (four years ago) link
if a person by some criteria is one in ten thousand and another person by some different criteria is one in a million, the latter is arguably more unique. you'd expect to hear this from a sportscaster, since they spend all their time ranking athletes according to arbitrary criteria.
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 21:11 (four years ago) link
if a person by some criteria is one in ten thousand and another person by some different criteria is one in a million
unique means one of a kind, not one in some finite number. use 'unusual' or some other more suitable term
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 21:22 (four years ago) link
there's a bit in the radio version of Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge when he is interviewing an immensely annoying child prodigy who corrects him on his use of "unique" and I have never been able to listen to complaints about it without hearing him saying "one cannot have gradations of uniqueness, one either is, or is not unique" - for this reason I have never corrected anyone on this in my decade and a half teaching English.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 21:26 (four years ago) link
LOL that is a classic episode.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 21:28 (four years ago) link
Cringe as an adjective is a pretty decent playful shortening of cringeworthy, which feels rather old fashioned, no? Having said that, I heard an American politician on the news earlier describe the current situation as "troublesome" and even "worrisome", both words that I feel must be on their way out, esp. the latter; I can't imagine anyone here in the UK using it.
― fetter, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 21:33 (four years ago) link
Troublesome will be around for a while yet.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 21:35 (four years ago) link
lol, yes me too. Whom!
― kinder, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 21:37 (four years ago) link
Uniqueness always has a context, otherwise everything would be unique. "Unusual" also doesn't work, only "more unique" conveys both the uniqueness in that context and the rarity of that uniqueness in a larger context. Also "unusual" has a lot of connotations.
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 21:45 (four years ago) link
Someone ought to tell that prodigy that a synonym for unique is singular. Consequently, to say "one is either is, or is not, unique" is equivalent to saying "one is either is, or is not, singular". However, by definition, one is always singular, therefore your statement contains a logical error. Take that, you snotty kid!
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 21:47 (four years ago) link
None of my posts are unique Worst TV adverts of the moment
― kinder, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 21:48 (four years ago) link
xp IS! I meant "None of my posts is unique!"
Someone ought to tell that prodigy that a synonym for unique is singular. Consequently, to say "one is either is, or is not, unique" is equivalent to saying "one is either is, or is not, singular". However, by definition, one is always singular, therefore your statement contains a logical error. Take that, you snotty kid!― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, April 21, 2020 10:47 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, April 21, 2020 10:47 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
If you listen to the episode you will find a very satisfying conclusion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AknwHCIzhg
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 22:15 (four years ago) link
on the topic of disgraceful comma usage:
We talk on the phone, with Jamil calling from her home in Los Angeles, which she shares with her boyfriend, the musician James Blake and three friends.
― karmic blowback for dissing pip and jane baker (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 07:06 (four years ago) link
yes, there is some ambiguity there, yet you seem to have figured it out.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 16:57 (four years ago) link
i get annoyed when ppl take issue with hyperbolic use of "literally" (multiple times in this thread) esp when they say it's used to mean "figuratively" which it's not it's literally just an intensifier
& idc how well established it is now sneery use of "woke" is still gross & often seems to be a way for ppl to complain about SJW/PC culture w/o sounding like mail readers or alt right types
― fuck it (Left), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 19:25 (four years ago) link
I'll have to encounter some of these before they begin to annoy me--haven't thus far.
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-april-22-2020-1.5540906/covidiots-quarantinis-linguist-explains-how-covid-19-has-infected-our-language-1.5540914
― clemenza, Thursday, 23 April 2020 14:54 (four years ago) link
"gross"
― steer calmer (darraghmac), Thursday, 23 April 2020 15:38 (four years ago) link
Dumb, quotidian things that apparently 'hit different', plz just fuck off.
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 23 April 2020 20:44 (four years ago) link
these x times, where x is extraordinary, unprecedented, difficult etc
― closed beta (NotEnough), Friday, 24 April 2020 20:45 (four years ago) link
first responders
― mookieproof, Friday, 24 April 2020 20:51 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kiuf8y7SHss
this song really do be hittin different in 2020 doe
― ronnie milksop (unregistered), Friday, 24 April 2020 21:14 (four years ago) link
Yes, I'm not fond of this either.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Friday, 24 April 2020 21:25 (four years ago) link
we could refer to firefighters, police, and emts collectively as firpolemts.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 24 April 2020 21:29 (four years ago) link
'in anger' to mean 'in earnest'
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 09:41 (four years ago) link
"Amidst this clusterfuck" covers it better.
― archangel's thunderpants (Matt #2), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 09:50 (four years ago) link
― kinder, Tuesday, 28 April 2020 10:56 (four years ago) link
"I feel seen / feeling seen / I see you" must stop
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 28 April 2020 12:42 (four years ago) link
xp I haven't encountered it too often but in tech "when x is used in anger" typically means used by real life customers not just devs and testers.
― a slice of greater pastry (ledge), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 12:46 (four years ago) link
Don't look back in anger.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 28 April 2020 12:53 (four years ago) link
yes i've usually heard it in a UK tech context i.e. "in june we'll be in a position to start phase 2 in anger" or "once we start really coding in anger"
it would be funny as a throwaway, but it's become A Thing
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 13:03 (four years ago) link
I notice there's also a military expression 'fire in anger,' meaning to fire for real, not in practice. I wonder if that's where it originated.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fire_in_anger
― jmm, Tuesday, 28 April 2020 13:12 (four years ago) link
I don't know who needs to hear this but
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 28 April 2020 13:19 (four years ago) link
don't look back in earnest
― stone cold jane austen (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 13:49 (four years ago) link
jmm thats where ive always seen it used
the move from practice/training to competition or whatever, sports context or etc
― kim rong un (darraghmac), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 16:22 (four years ago) link
"in anger" is an accurate and descriptive term for using modern computer hardware and software
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 16:54 (four years ago) link
Directed by Kenneth Anger.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 28 April 2020 16:56 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/lgMMdlS.jpg
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 28 April 2020 17:14 (four years ago) link
"ecofascism"
coming on 2 months since a half dozen likely 22 year olds made a half dozen dumbass tweets and the nation's smug are still in a frenzy about it
until donald trump and mitch mcconnell start advocating genocide for sake of dear mother gaia i think i'm going to keep the threat level at green
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Saturday, 2 May 2020 05:31 (four years ago) link
the front lines, the frontline workers
not everything is a (great) war
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 14:41 (four years ago) link
If I could sum up everything that grinds my gears about blitz spirit, real england, nostalgia for imperialism, colonialism, dying in the thousands in war and endless unquestioning love for the royal family in one word it would be
BUNTING
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Friday, 8 May 2020 12:13 (four years ago) link
http://dearsportsfan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Bunt-2-1.jpg
― Flaneuring Bevan (Noodle Vague), Friday, 8 May 2020 12:15 (four years ago) link
Also hate bunting in baseball and I know next to nothing about baseball. Feels like a heel play.
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Friday, 8 May 2020 12:16 (four years ago) link
Walking as well. Fuck that coward move.
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Friday, 8 May 2020 12:17 (four years ago) link
heel plays are the best plays :D
― Flaneuring Bevan (Noodle Vague), Friday, 8 May 2020 12:20 (four years ago) link
my dad's always held that home runs should be considered foul balls as the ball has been put outside the bounds of play
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 8 May 2020 12:24 (four years ago) link
Calling a thing a "so-called" thing when it's just the name of the thing, just like all the other things.
Been hearing a lot of "the so-called R number" this week.
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Monday, 11 May 2020 00:58 (four years ago) link