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> Don’t expect to see many crypto ads for a minute "I haven't seen him for a minute" "I haven't been home for a minute" If you're wondering like me why every
by labrador 4y ago
> Don’t expect to see many crypto ads for a minute
"I haven't seen him for a minute"
"I haven't been home for a minute"
If you're wondering like me why everyone started saying "for a minute" and where it came from, I recently watched The Wire and that's the earliest use I know about.
When I was growing up in America, people said they "had to stand in line" but now they say "had to stand on line"
I believe "stand on" instead of "stand in" comes from Britain
- hprotagonist 4y ago“on” is a new yorker thing. Did you move to the northeast? https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/is-it-on-line-or-in-line https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/is-it-on-line-...
- labrador 4y agoNo, I've lived in California my whole life. I figured "on" came from the East, but I've only heard it British shows. I've also picked up a term I really like from the Brits (I think it's them): "get things sorted", "get it sorted"
- hprotagonist 4y agoperhaps some of ours came west :)
- labrador 4y agoWe don't have as many East Coasters as Los Angeles, but yes that's true.
- brendoelfrendo 4y ago> When I was growing up in America, people said they "had to stand in line" but now they say "had to stand on line" Is this a generational/regional thing? I'm an East Coast millennial and I never hear people say "stand on line." The "in a minute" example I believe comes from AAVE, if it was present in The Wire it was probably common in the Baltimore lexicon long before that show hit HBO.
- labrador 4y agoFor those wondering like me, AAVE is "African American Vernacular Language"
- labrador 4y agoThis is a case where I wish the person that downvoted me would leave a comment. What did I do wrong?
- danieltillett 4y agoThe E in AAVE is English not Language.
- mason55 4y agoAFAIK, stand “on” line is pretty much an NYC thing
- labrador 4y agoPeople in the Bay Area of California all started saying it too
- unclewalter 4y agoFrom Juba to Jive[0]: "In a minute (1980s-1990s) in the future, perhaps a month from the time said, but not immediately. (Southern city use)" [0] - Juba to Jive edited by Clarence Major
- labrador 4y agoFascinating. My white bread daughter who lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains used the term the other day with me on the phone so I know it's arrived https://www.amazon.com/Juba-Jive-Dictionary-African-American-Reference/dp/014051306X https://www.amazon.com/Juba-Jive-Dictionary-African-American...
- pmyteh 4y agoIn Britain we 'queue', or 'join a queue'. So wherever 'stand on line' started, it wasn't us!