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"Drop" is now the most difficult verb to interpret for me. My guess is for Gen X and up it tends to mean "abandon" and for millennials down it means something l
by repsilat 8y ago
"Drop" is now the most difficult verb to interpret for me. My guess is for Gen X and up it tends to mean "abandon" and for millennials down it means something like "release" or "provide". Did the Democrats give up on the Internet Bill of Rights, or did they propose it?
("Go sideways" is my runner-up for this title. On the East Coast it mostly means "remain unchanged" and on the West Coast it mostly means "shit got crazy".)
- sesutton 8y agoI'm a millennial and drop means abandon to me except in the context of music.
- btrettel 8y agoMillennial here too and I agree. I want to add that "drop" is used only for music I don't listen to and that I never use the word drop to mean release in any context.
- asix66 8y agoAgreed and confirmed. I’m a GenXer, and my instant interpretation of this headline (before I read your comment) was the abandonment of the bill by the Democrats.
- nmstoker 8y agoGood. It's obviously a terrible choice by the journalist. Why spend time researching and writing an article, only to mess up the headline with an ambiguous meaning?!
- Spartan-S63 8y agoI’m a millennial (1994) and my first conclusion was that they were abandoning this legislation to entice voters, which makes no sense. I’m really not a fan of my generation’s elastic relationship with language.
- dang 8y agoOk, we've replaced 'drop' with something less ambiguous in the title above.