Comment on Outliers

• PunnyName@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s just how language evolves. Maybe the extra force insinuated in “yeet” helps differentiate, depending on the person.

  In the end, as long as you understand, then what had been communicated has succeeded, even if it’s weird.

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  • r_13@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think there’s a sublety missing that yeet implies thrown with great force but without care for the direction.

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    • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeet for distance, kobe for accuracy.

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    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And suddenness!

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• vithigar@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Yeet” carries an implication of force and disregard that “throw” does not. A dart player is not yeeting the darts.

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  • Threeme2189@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A dart player is not yeeting the darts

    Now that you mention it, they should start yeeting darts!

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• dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Now go and learn about Kobe. It’s relayed to yeet.

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  • jadero@mander.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    New word! Thanks.

    I made a half-assed guess as to its meaning based on the fact that I’ve heard of an elite basketball player by that name. I got pretty close, according to urban dictionary.

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  • Pratai@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m going to pass on that. The whole thing is a bit too sully for my taste.

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    • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Each to their own, but I may remind you that whenever your generation was growing up it’s incredibly likely that you were using words your parents didn’t use.

      I can see you’ve already been informed how language evolves, and if you can’t accept that then I don’t know what to say. I guess I could ask why you ain’t talking all Shakespearean?

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      • Pratai@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Lighten up, kid. Just because I chose not to partake in some flavor-of-the-week slang, doesn’t mean I’m unwilling to keep up with change.

        I’m allowed to have an opinion that it’s fucking dumb.

        And if it’s Shakespearean that you’re after….

        Verily I perpend that though mayest o’er-rauhot thine aversion to proclivity and hastily fornicate thyself with nigh but the expertly expedience of one so deserved of such an unpregnant act.

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    • Algaroth@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Kobe didn’t pass.

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    • HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      you must be new to the internet

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