# Hey, yeah you, read this **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 13, 2021, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-yeah-you-read-this/939888 "2021-04-13T03:26:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![EyePaintFaces](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyepaintfaces/32/7538_2.png) [@EyePaintFaces](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EyePaintFaces)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-yeah-you-read-this/939888/1 "2021-04-13T03:26:02Z")
Hey, you are the shit and don’t ever give up hope, I know this doesn’t belong here most likely idk there’s no rules in the pit right but I hope before it gets deleted or moved you get a chance to read this You are fucking awesome and so worth it even when you feel worthless And to anybody who feels otherwise, fuckem. You are not alone Much love. #mentalhealthmatters ---
**Author:** ![DeathPool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e95f7d/32.png) [@DeathPool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeathPool)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-yeah-you-read-this/939888/2 "2021-04-13T03:30:38Z")
Lame… ---
**Author:** ![EyePaintFaces](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyepaintfaces/32/7538_2.png) [@EyePaintFaces](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EyePaintFaces)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-yeah-you-read-this/939888/3 "2021-04-13T04:39:28Z")
Fuck wit me, you’ll live longer. @DeathPool ---
**Author:** ![DeathPool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e95f7d/32.png) [@DeathPool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeathPool)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-yeah-you-read-this/939888/4 "2021-04-13T04:39:57Z")
Drink another shot ---
**Author:** ![EyePaintFaces](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyepaintfaces/32/7538_2.png) [@EyePaintFaces](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EyePaintFaces)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-yeah-you-read-this/939888/5 "2021-04-13T04:40:19Z")
damn that was fast lol Cheers to you 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DeathPool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e95f7d/32.png) [@DeathPool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeathPool)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-yeah-you-read-this/939888/6 "2021-04-13T04:41:45Z")
It’s ok I had a few too. ---
**Author:** ![EyePaintFaces](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyepaintfaces/32/7538_2.png) [@EyePaintFaces](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EyePaintFaces)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-yeah-you-read-this/939888/7 "2021-04-13T04:42:37Z")
hell yeah thanks for the moment lol I did mine your turn #goodvibes ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-yeah-you-read-this/939888/8 "2021-04-13T05:33:44Z")
Thanks for the encouragement. It has occurred to me that there may be no phrase in English in which the presence or absence of a “the” matters as much as in “you are the shit.” ---
**Author:** ![EyePaintFaces](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyepaintfaces/32/7538_2.png) [@EyePaintFaces](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EyePaintFaces)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-yeah-you-read-this/939888/9 "2021-04-13T05:36:33Z")
Lol hell yeah nice perspective ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-yeah-you-read-this/939888/10 "2021-04-13T05:38:29Z")
I can’t read. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![EyePaintFaces](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyepaintfaces/32/7538_2.png) [@EyePaintFaces](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EyePaintFaces)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-yeah-you-read-this/939888/11 "2021-04-13T05:42:50Z")
but can you see the words coming out of my mouth ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-yeah-you-read-this/939888/12 "2021-04-13T14:19:17Z")
> [@EyePaintFaces](#): > > Hey, you are the shit What a difference a definite article makes! ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-yeah-you-read-this/939888/13 "2021-04-13T14:59:13Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > What a difference a definite article makes! Would interesting to see the OP’s statement translated into a language that doesn’t feature articles. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-yeah-you-read-this/939888/14 "2021-04-13T16:08:10Z")
Makes me wonder how many such languages have slang terms that are also antonyms. There’s got to be some other way(s) to supply the context necessary for the listener to decide which meaning to apply, but hell if I know enough to say what they might be. ---
**Author:** ![EyePaintFaces](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyepaintfaces/32/7538_2.png) [@EyePaintFaces](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EyePaintFaces)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-yeah-you-read-this/939888/15 "2021-04-13T16:40:03Z")
This totally went over my head, what article ? @Machine_Elf also not sure what you mean I didn’t link an article ? ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-yeah-you-read-this/939888/16 "2021-04-13T16:46:46Z")
For your reading pleasure: > **[Article (grammar)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_(grammar))** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > An article is any member of a class of dedicated words that are used with noun phrases to mark the identifiability of the referents of the noun phrases. The category of articles constitutes a part of speech. > In English, both "the" and "a(n)" are articles, which combine with nouns to form noun phrases. Articles typically specify the grammatical definiteness of the noun phrase, but in many languages, they carry additional grammatical information su... ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-yeah-you-read-this/939888/17 "2021-04-13T16:46:58Z")
“You are dope.” “You are a dope.” A= an important indefinite article “You are shit.” “You are the shit.” The=an important definite article ---
**Author:** ![EyePaintFaces](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyepaintfaces/32/7538_2.png) [@EyePaintFaces](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EyePaintFaces)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-yeah-you-read-this/939888/18 "2021-04-13T16:53:16Z")
Thank you much ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-yeah-you-read-this/939888/19 "2021-04-13T17:17:59Z")
No problem. I can assure you that you are the shit as well. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-yeah-you-read-this/939888/20 "2021-04-13T17:38:28Z")
> [@EyePaintFaces](#): > > This totally went over my head, what article ? > > @Machine_Elf also not sure what you mean I didn’t link an article ? **Euphonius\_Polemic** ’s link explains what articles are. There are some languages that do not use articles at all. Japanese and Russian are two that come to mind, but I’m sure there are others. The definite article “the” is an indispensable part of conveying the correct meaning of “you’re the shit” (cf. “you’re shit”), so it was interesting to wonder how one might translate that. Anyway, thanks for the uplifting OP. 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-yeah-you-read-this/939888.md?page=2)