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> This is the coolest thing on HN that I've seen in a minute. Off-topic, but what is up with the increased use of the phrase "in a minute", presumably to mean
by pelican0 11d ago
> This is the coolest thing on HN that I've seen in a minute.
Off-topic, but what is up with the increased use of the phrase "in a minute", presumably to mean "in a long time", lately?
I've only started encountering it in the past year.
Did it get popularized by some celebrity, tv show, influencers, etc?
- seanwessmith 11d agoseems like you know what you're talking about 5k% increase starting in July this year https://trends.google.com/explore?q=I%27ve%20seen%20in%20a%20minute&date=today%205-y&geo=US https://trends.google.com/explore?q=I%27ve%20seen%20in%20a%2...
- bezmi 11d agoI think the trend is probably misleading. A popular youtuber may have released a video in August with a title containing "in a minute".
- scheme271 11d agoIt's been around in slang for a few years with a few variants, e.g. "I haven't seen her in a hot minute." I think it's just filtered into wider cultural vernacular.
- mrbombastic 11d agopeople have been saying "it's been a minute" to mean a long time since at least the 90s in NY
- kulahan 10d agoYeah, I’ve been saying hot minutes for decades myself!
- palad1n 11d agoScarlett Johansson says, “See you in a minute" in Avengers: Endgame.
- freehorse 10d agoI say "see you in a minute" to mean "see you in a bit". What did Scarlett Johansson mean by that in that movie?
- devindotcom 11d agoit's been around. I more commonly see it as "been a minute!" when you see someone you haven't seen in a good while.
- Carrok 11d agoThis phrase has been around for years, I know because it has always infuriated me. They took a well-defined unit of time, which is relatively short, and made it mean “some unknown but very long period of time”. So frustrating. /oldmanyellsatcloud
- freehorse 10d agoI had not heard it before (or if I did I did not interpret it correctly, eg if one told me "see you in a minute" I would interpret it as "see you in a bit". But there is this podcast discussing it in 2021, and it comes from black community slang from 70s (which is where most slang I encounter comes from). And these terms take a while to catch up usually, but it seems it was already circulating more broadly since 2000s. https://waywordradio.org/its-been-a-minute/ https://waywordradio.org/its-been-a-minute/
- Larrikin 9d agoIt's been a phrase for decades.