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"I definitely cringe" and "Also ... is also ... very cringe to me" You certainly get plenty of mileage out of the word cringe. Is it a verb, is it an adjectiv
by gerdesj 4y ago
"I definitely cringe" and "Also ... is also ... very cringe to me"
You certainly get plenty of mileage out of the word cringe. Is it a verb, is it an adjective - who knows? Your also ... also construct riffs on "either ... or", "both ... and" and the like. There must be a name for terms like that - you get them in Latin too so they've been around for a while eg nec ... necque (neither ... nor).
Jawn is just a colloquialism but I've seen also ... also several times before now. I've also seen very cringe too.
I am not taking the piss but I feel that I am watching language evolve right in front of me. I suspect that whilst this article and set of threads gets itself all whizzed up over jawn, it is missing the rather bigger point about language and conversations that travel at the speed of light instead of just sound and is distributed by the internet and not just the post office.
On HN we pontificators have an audience that a Roman Imperator could only dream of.
- phlalexsh 4y ago
- serf 4y agoyou'd have to be blind and deaf not to notice that gradual downhill slide of popular vocabulary. It may have been said with a bit more grace, but they're not wrong either. "Gee, 20% of this paragraph is the same word, perhaps it would serve me well to mix it up."
- dang 4y agoYikes, please don't do this. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html