We don’t need no stinking contractions! I say you all. Then again, I rarely find myself using that construct. It’s funny how when I lived in North Carolina I found myself using that kind of construct all the time. Now back in Connecticut, not so much.
There are sites out there for every kind of slash.
That could definitely be a problem in some situations unrelated to programming as well.
That’s certainly not a form of slash I’m familiar with. Who knew slasher movies had become so … tame.
I always thought backslash could be the result of one of those situations, when done properly and well.
They think we are deviants when we “pet” our dogs and we think they’re deviants when they “stroke” their dogs.
Cite?
I believe the usage you’re looking for is “vegees”, a misspelling by one poster that you seem obsessed with, based on you bringing it up repeatedly. But misspellings, yours and theirs, aren’t what this thread is about.
Yeah, I just searched for the term and the only place “veegees” has ever shown up on this board is @D_Anconia saying it. But that supposed original use is nowhere to be seen.
Ok, and “vegees” isn’t baby talk as well?
The Veegees were a musical group that showed up on a few black market VeggieTales™ VHS tapes in Indonesia.
The Veegees were portrayed as an animated turnip, gourd and aubergine (Berry, More Rice, and Raw Bean). They started in the 70s as an emo folk trio, but soon jumped on the disco trend. Dressed in white patent leather, the few tapes they appeared on soon became rarities, sought after by the same types of people who prowl the dark web for softcore Davy & Goliath BetaMax cartridges.
There was the O.J. Simpson web page-
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While I can’t say it exactly aggravates the hell out of me, I’ve noticed the new trend of people saying “whipsaw” when they mean “whiplash”, to denote any situation with wildly variable conditions.* Why “whipsaw”? What do saws have to do with it?
*Like the weather forecast here this week–high of 29F tomorrow and 65F on Christmas.
Hmm. I hear this as getting hammered by opposing forces or contradictory directives. Being pulled up for being both too impulsive (“consider the consequences!”) and too ponderous (“be decisive!”)
This drives me insane, but it seems to be a regionalism that’s largely used in the US midwest and out towards the west, but not usually in California.
The thing is I never heard people even in the Midwest drop the infinitive until maybe fifteen years ago, and now it’s everywhere.
IMO you’re wrong.
The conditions are whipsawing back and forth, e.g. from extreme cold to extreme hot. You yourself may well get whiplash from being whipsawed, but the conditions themselves are NOT whiplashing.
Why is “whipsaw” a term for extreme cyclical change? Because at one time the whipsaw they were the largest of man-powered saws and had a very long stroke from one extreme to the other. The e.g. temperature shifting from the 50s to 60s & back might be see-sawing. But when temps are shifting between the teens and the 80s, they’re whipsawing across a much larger range.
YMMV of course.
Adding unnecessary possessive before meals:
“Have you had your lunch?”
“I haven’t had my dinner.”
What’s with the specificity here? Are you worried I might have eaten someone else’s lunch? Or your milkshake?
And somewhat related, a former boss got on my nerves by always saying things like:
“I haven’t even had time to have my salad yet.”
“Can I get back to you in a bit? I’m just going to have my salad now.”
Why do I need to know exactly what your meal comprises? I didn’t ask.
“Have you had lunch?” is either a request for your feeding status or a passive form of invitation to eat together. “Have you had your lunch?” means strictly the former. Ditto for “… my dinner.”. The implication is that the speaker’s dinner plans are settled and this statement is neither an invite, nor a passive angling for an invite from whoever they’re speaking to.
At least this is how I read it in US idiom IME.
Two thoughts on e.g. “my salad”. It means:
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My meal is fully interruptible for whatever you need, but not just after I’ve sat down but before I’ve even started. Let me get a few bites in and I’ll be happy to help you. IOW, the “salad” statement isn’t about the contents of the meal, it’s about where the speaker is multiple phases of the process.
It’s also an appeal that if you know more about where they are in the process, you’ll be more amenable to accepting the delay. It’s not just “No.”; it’s “No because reasons.” Which almost always goes down more smoothly. -
Salad specifically is a common meal of dieters. They’re proud of their self-denial and discipline. They’re as much reminding themselves of how good they’re being than they are bragging to you.
Of course none of my thoughts may apply and your speakers may just be fond of over-precision and/or over-sharing.
Quintessential Pennsylvanian, from what I’ve read. At one time we had Adelphia Cable, which is based in PA, and they actually worded something on their website that way, something about where to call if something “needs fixed”
One of my dad’s ruralisms would bug me. He’d call home and say, “Is your mom there? I need to talk at her.” He did not find it funny when I pointed the handset at mom across the room and said, “OK! Now yell real loud!” The part that is (darkly) funny is that even back then, talking AT mom was pretty much one’s only option.
And I heard that on a Canadian TV show a couple nights ago.