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How does the meaning of "jawn" differ from "thing"?
by PaulAJ 7y ago
How does the meaning of "jawn" differ from "thing"?
- smitty1e 7y agoA thing is going to be a noun. A jawn is a possibly uninitialized variable thrown in at random anywhere, as far as I can jawn.
- anvandare 7y agoSo it's a smurf used when you don't smurfin' know the proper smurf? Smurfy. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Smurfing https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Smurfing
- thom 7y agoAre there any uses in the article where one couldn't just say thing, things or thingy? Half my sleep-deprived conversations with my wife are about thingying the thing so we can thingy the other thing.
- smitty1e 7y agoOne would not grow irate and tell someone else to 'jawn off'.
- kdmccormick 7y agoPlaces and people, it seems.
- elliekelly 7y agoIt is sometimes used for places and people but now that you mention it I can only really think of examples of it being used for slightly negative references. I would say there’s usually some contempt behind it. Place: “I have to go to that DMV jawn and renew my license.” People: “Them TSA jawn opened my bag.” Person: “She’s my ex jawn.” It can also be used to refer to women or a woman in a belittling way. Somewhat similar to “bitch.” For example: “That jawn is clingy.” or “Them jawns be crazy.”
- thom 7y agoI call both places and people 'thingy', admittedly only when the actual words don't come immediately to mind. It's possible I'm more addled than the average English speaker though.
- rubyfan 7y agoThat made me lol but I’ve never heard it as anything other than a noun/pronoun. You usually don’t replace a person with “thing”.
- aswanson 7y agoYeah, it's basically a lazy-evaluated type monad that can return another function or object.