• spacemanspiffy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3081·
    2 days ago

    Washed? Is this some hip new slang term?

    I feel liked not knowing this one makes me, well, washed…

    • pruwyben@discuss.tchncs.de
      43·
      2 days ago

      There was a joke about it in 30 Rock, where a teenager tells Liz her boyfriend is “totally washed” and she’s like, “typical”, while secretly looking up the word on the in-show equivalent of Urban Dictionary.

      • CM400@lemmy.world
        1461·
        2 days ago

        The term washed up originated in the early 2020s and gained popularity in 2021.

        As an old head, I’m pretty confident that “washed up” was used long before 2020.

        • Squirrelanna@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
          3·
          2 days ago

          We don’t need to. But we do it anyway for ease of language flow. See: Every single contraction, some of which don’t even reduce syllables. Just contacted to make the tongue say it faster.

        • affiliate@lemmy.world
          21·
          2 days ago

          just wait until you hear about people saying “comp sci” or worse, “poli sci”. if you are so pressed for time that you can’t afford to say all the syllables in “computer science” you can use an acronym. i will still be upset about the acronym, but i can live with it

            • Batman@sopuli.xyzEnglish
              7·
              2 days ago

              I remember a huge rumbling when the Sci-fi channel changed its name to SyFy. Neither word even has Y’s!!

              I’m gonna go sit on the bench with the other’s while I rub my knees.

              • kipo@lemm.eeEnglish
                2·
                2 days ago

                No matter how many times I see “SyFy”, my brain always thinks “sih-fee”.

          • Ziglin (they/them)@lemmy.worldEnglish
            31·
            2 days ago

            Those examples are abbreviations, not acronyms. Acronyms use initial letters (though people have gotten lazy with that to get nice sounding acronyms), whereas abbreviations are a category containing shortened words and also acronyms.

            I would also like to note that the ‘poli’ in ‘poli sci’ is way too close to the prefix ‘poly’ to not cause confusion. This is just one example of an abbreviation causing confusion among those not yet aware of the meaning. That’s why when addressing a general audience I avoid them or in longer conversations introduce them first.

            • affiliate@lemmy.world
              2·
              2 days ago

              my point is that people should use acronyms instead of those abbreviations. e.g., “CS” instead of “comp sci”. i hate those abbreviations. and you’re right that the “poli” does cause confusion. it always takes me a second to figure out what people mean when they say it. i think we’re on the same side here.

                • affiliate@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  1 day ago

                  i can’t believe that i didn’t even know the difference until now. i hope i don’t lose my pedant card because of this

    • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
      31·
      2 days ago

      I saw him a few times, but his last tour with Elton was my favorite. One set of Billy playing Elton songs, one of Elton playing Billy songs, with the last set duets. Great show. Wish I caught one with Stevie Nicks!

      • Krauerking@lemy.lol
        6·
        2 days ago

        I saw one of the shows from that tour too except Billy Joel was like just absolutely wasted drunk and kept falling off his piano stool and couldn’t remember the lyrics. He even tossed the bench of the stage at one point and a stage hand had to run out another chair for him.

        He kept playing the piano the whole time basically perfectly though which was absolutely wild.

      • limelight79@lemm.ee
        6·
        2 days ago

        I saw that tour with Billy Joel and Elton John, too. To date, still one of the best concerts I’ve been to. Face to Face. Wish they’d done a DVD of it!

  • Roopappy@lemmy.world
    50·
    2 days ago

    I do believe that everything old was better, everything new stinks, and my feet hurt all the time.

    • Prime_Minister_Keyes@lemm.ee
      7·
      2 days ago

      Funny you should say that. Near the end of WSB’s 1953 novel “Junkie”, IIRC, the main protagonist complains that he doesn’t understand the slang of the new generation anymore. For example their use of “that stinks!”

    • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
      10·
      2 days ago

      No, you’re seeing it from this side of it, so it’ll appear correctly. Think about if you had X-ray vision and could see through a stamp; viewed through the stamp, it would look like it was the right way around.