The Innovative Usage Thread

[Boşkoventi]

All joking aside, I'm not sure what Chagen meant by "watching an LP". Does "LP" have some new meaning that I'm not aware of? Am I marking myself as old and out-of-it with this question?

[Lyhoko Leaci]

All joking aside, I'm not sure what Chagen meant by "watching an LP". Does "LP" have some new meaning that I'm not aware of? Am I marking myself as old and out-of-it with this question?

LP = Let's Play, basically watching someone play a video game of some sort.

[linguoboy]

What do people think of this phrasal verb usage? (I had to reread the sentence to parse it correctly.)

Caribou Coffee may want to curb its online marketing campaign toward the young adult category

[Travis B.]

What do people think of this phrasal verb usage? (I had to reread the sentence to parse it correctly.)

Caribou Coffee may want to curb its online marketing campaign toward the young adult category

I would not parse that as involving a phrasal verb curb toward but rather just the verb curb, with toward connecting its online marketing campaign with the young adult category.

[linguoboy]

I would not parse that as involving a phrasal verb curb toward but rather just the verb curb, with toward connecting its online marketing campaign with the young adult category.

Except that that reading doesn't make sense in context, where they are clearly talking about expanding such a campaign rather than restricting it. See: https://sites.google.com/site/seoanalys ... -starbucks.

[Travis B.]

Except that that reading doesn't make sense in context, where they are clearly talking about expanding such a campaign rather than restricting it. See: https://sites.google.com/site/seoanalys ... -starbucks.

Well, I certainly am not familiar with that usage!

[Magb]

What do people think of this phrasal verb usage? (I had to reread the sentence to parse it correctly.)

Caribou Coffee may want to curb its online marketing campaign toward the young adult category

Possibly just a typo/eggcorn for "curve toward"?

[Boşkoventi]

I would not parse that as involving a phrasal verb curb toward but rather just the verb curb, with toward connecting its online marketing campaign with the young adult category.

Except that that reading doesn't make sense in context, where they are clearly talking about expanding such a campaign rather than restricting it. See: https://sites.google.com/site/seoanalys ... -starbucks.

WTF?

What do people think of this phrasal verb usage? (I had to reread the sentence to parse it correctly.)

Caribou Coffee may want to curb its online marketing campaign toward the young adult category

Possibly just a typo/eggcorn for "curve toward"?

Could be. Earlier in the same paragraph they have "... if they pull-in some of the same types ...".

[linguoboy]

What do people think of this phrasal verb usage? (I had to reread the sentence to parse it correctly.)

Caribou Coffee may want to curb its online marketing campaign toward the young adult category

Possibly just a typo/eggcorn for "curve toward"?

That's not a usage I'm familiar with either. Googling this found only examples of very literal usage (e.g. "Hook the fingers into the corner of the mouth and curve them toward the cheek and pull out.")

Googling "curb them toward", however, found a few additional examples of the usage above.

[ol bofosh]

I would've interpreted it as "restrict it to" or even "concentrate on". "Expanding" I wouldn't have thought of.

[Hakaku]

Not so much an English word, but a French one:

It seems that in my region, the word cabanot is used to mean "closet". Although the word is already a regionalism, other French Canadian speakers seem to interpret it as some sort of shed or cabin.

[ol bofosh]

"to take rid of..."

[Viktor77]

Does anyone else have an unsecured/varying pronunciation of 'root' and 'roots?' There is zero consistency in how I pronounce this word. Sometimes I say /r\Ut/(s/) and sometimes I say /r\uts/(s/). I'd like to think that the word on its own in the plural is /rUts/ but in the singular is /rut/. And when used in a sentence in the plural is /r\uts/ and in the singular is /r\ut/, but yesterday I caught myself saying /r\Uts/ in a sentence. There is no freaking consistency to any of it, at least for me!

Oh and it's usually /r\Uf/ but also /r\u.fiN/, but again, you'd probably catch me pronouncing the word 'roof' either way with no discernible logic as to how and why.

'Hoof' is the same, it's a total toss up how I'll pronounce it. I just said /huf/ there in my head, but earlier I read it in another context and said /hUf/.

And I'd never say 'route' /r\ut/, always /r\aUt/ (AFAIK though I may have just caught myself saying /r\ut/ 66).

[ol bofosh]

Does anyone else have an unsecured/varying pronunciation of 'root' and 'roots?' There is zero consistency in how I pronounce this word. Sometimes I say /r\Ut/(s/) and sometimes I say /r\uts/(s/). I'd like to think that the word on its own in the plural is /rUts/ but in the singular is /rut/. And when used in a sentence in the plural is /r\uts/ and in the singular is /r\ut/, but yesterday I caught myself saying /r\Uts/ in a sentence. There is no freaking consistency to any of it, at least for me!

Oh and it's usually /r\Uf/ but also /r\u.fiN/, but again, you'd probably catch me pronouncing the word 'roof' either way with no discernible logic as to how and why.

'Hoof' is the same, it's a total toss up how I'll pronounce it. I just said /huf/ there in my head, but earlier I read it in another context and said /hUf/.

And I'd never say 'route' /r\ut/, always /r\aUt/ (AFAIK though I may have just caught myself saying /r\ut/ 66).

For me only 'hoof' varies. Usually /hu:f/, sometimes /hUf/.

Root is always /ru:t/.

I'll go and put these on the How Do You Pronounce X? thread.

[R.Rusanov]

I've seen internet communities recently using /ajti:ti:/ in place of standard english /hi:əɹ/ to indicate relative proximity. Must be a sociolect thing

[Ser]

What? No, it's just "in this thread" and nothing more.

[R.Rusanov]

People use it in places outside of literal forum threads though. Like certain video games, chat programs, etc.

[Viktor77]

Anyone else in a country which drinks milk from refrigerated jugs refer to those jugs as a "bottle of milk?" I've always done this, even though the gallon jugs are in no way bottles. It's clearly a holdover from the days when glass bottles of milk were delivered to your door and my family probably says it so I just imitated it from them.

[linguoboy]

Anyone else in a country which drinks milk from refrigerated jugs refer to those jugs as a "bottle of milk?" I've always done this, even though the gallon jugs are in no way bottles. It's clearly a holdover from the days when glass bottles of milk were delivered to your door and my family probably says it so I just imitated it from them.

This usage is the opposite of innovative.

I'm just wondering how long before it becomes necessary to specify "cow's milk" in general discourse. Right now, this is a usage I only see among special needs folk (vegan, lactose-intolerant, etc.).

[Thry]

xD Spanish has the best solution for that - I don't say neither "dame la botella de leche" nor "dame el cartón de leche", just "dame la leche".

[Viktor77]

xD Spanish has the best solution for that - I don't say neither "dame la botella de leche" nor "dame el cartón de leche", just "dame la leche".

Yes, I say that too, but if for some reason I need to reference the container of milk, I use bottle and not jug, even though jug is the accurate descriptor.

I know it's the opposite of innovative, but this thread is the only decent place for these sorts of queries.

[2+3 clusivity]

When asking a second party to mention you to a third party or to say hi for you to a third party: "please remind me by ___(third party)___" or less often "remember me by ___(third)____"

[Ser]

<pthagnar> i want to gulag him

[linguoboy]

When asking a second party to mention you to a third party or to say hi for you to a third party: "please remind me by ___(third party)___" or less often "remember me by ___(third)____"

I don't recall ever hearing that. I ask to be remembered to someone.

[Yng]

'Remember me by' is not innovative, I don't think. To me it actually feels like a slightly archaic usage.