"hashtag" is a perfectly fine word that refers to a real thing. The name of this symbol: # is "hash". Furthermore, a word or phrase that categorizes a piece of content is called a "tag". As the name implies, hashtag is simply a tag that appears within the content itself and is denoted by a hash. It was created not by "fucking idiot kids", but by perfectly mature and computer literate IRC users. It is a convenient and recognizable form of text markup that serves a useful purpose. On the other hand, hashtags do get misused (seemingly more often than not, at least on Facebook), which is even worse to me than "bae", which itself is like fingernails on a chalkboard. I am referring to the use of it to mean "WHAT FOLLOWS IS AN INTERNET IDIOM" (e.g. #nope or #sorrynotsorry) and to the tongue-in-cheek creation of single-use hashtags that will never actually be used to categorize anything; they are just prefixed to #reallylongphrasesthatareunpunctuatedfornogoodreason. #rant #ironicuseofthethingijustcriticized #lookatmeimsoclever #yolo
More likely, someone started omitting the second consonant from "babe" and it just caught on. "before anything else" sounds like the urban legend that "fuck" began as an acronym. The one I first heard was "Fornication Under Consent of King". I like to think someone knew "bae" meant "poop" in Danish and decided to amuse themselves by fooling people into using it as a synonym for "babe", not knowing what monster they were creating.
I remember when the "Hashtag" and "Yolo" and "Swag" just became a think and me and a group of friends (Seniors about to leave btw) made fun of the whole thing by saying #Yoloswag and it CAUGHT ON. Yeah.... terrible.
It appears that this is not true. I don't speak Danish, but I put "bae" into Google translate as a Danish word and tried to translate it to English.
'Pushed back' to refer to an event that's been postponed. It seems to have become standard usage, but wouldn't 'pushed forward' make more sense?
That's called a Folk Etymology or Reanalysis. Happens a lot. Asparagus was never "sparrow-grass", no matter how people try to invoke some kind of logic as to its appearance. Asparagus has cognates all across the I.E. spectrum, older than the English usage, which would clearly never have been affected by the words sparrow or grass since the nouns for those two items in those other respective languages are different. Yet, the false legend of "sparrow-grass" lives on....
No need to sell me on that. When I first started seeing it pop up in memes I kept thinking to myself "How can so many people be making that same typo?....."
And Sammy Hagar is a noted scholar who is always right, isn't he? (Or maybe he's just a drunken lout who can't drive 55.)
Well, I know this is going to hit people hard, but damn. I do HATE 'lol.' Hate it. I mean REALLY HATE IT. Some folks use it at the end of nearly every sentence they write, like it's a happy-clappy form of punctuation. I'm getting too old for this shit.
I know what you mean, it's hilarious, the implementation of it so often. lol If you really want a laugh, go and have a gander at the 12 year old cat thread. Laugh? I nearly pissed myself, on a variety of levels.
