Now in 2014, there was also a yeet dance move that was popular on Vine, the video-sharing platform. However, going from an interjection to a verb, an interjection of approval or joy or congratulations to a verb, I can sort of see that. He went so far as to give the sentence and the syntax, but we don't understand what it means. We don't know what "to yeet someone" actually means. It shows also what the mistakes that people make, which is give a sentence but have no context. Does that mean throwing someone into the basketball hoop? It's a little unclear at this point that this entry was written, but I think this is actually a very well-constructed Urban Dictionary entry. Also can be used as an exclamatory yeet or as a verb, to yeet someone." And it's not really clear what yeeting someone is. But this example, this is posted by user Bubba "Skoal", S-K-O-A-L, Johnson, this Urban Dictionary entry was made on March 11th, 2008, so only one year after that example from the Birmingham News, it's defined as "used to express excitement, especially used in basketball when someone has shot a three-pointer that they are sure will go in the hoop. I did find an example of it in Urban Dictionary that shows that in more wide use, its meaning was not necessarily understood. I do think yeet is showing a kind of stickiness and a propensity of use. And the fact that we're still avowing this, or averring this, is testament to its staying power. The thing that I find particularly interesting about yeet is that a lot of the discourse around this word that I see now, online at least, is people saying, "No one says yeet anymore." People have been saying, "No one says yeet anymore," for the last five or six years, I feel like. I think it's a fascinating word, and I think you're absolutely right about it being a word in search for a meaning and it solidifying semantically. It's getting closer and closer to qualifying for dictionary entry, but I think it's such an interesting example of a word that has really, for a while, seemed to be in search of a meaning. The meaning? No one knows, not coaches, not players, not cheerleaders, not fans." So for its first years that I was aware of the word, it was an utterance and its meaning was not really very settled.
TYPEFACE MEANING FREE
And this is from the Birmingham News, Birmingham (Alabama) News: "Today's word is yeet, yelled by the Ramsay student section whenever a player makes a free throw. I looked at Lexis-Nexis, that database of newspapers that goes back many years, and I found an example from 2007. So it's more in recent years that I've heard, "Just yeet this."Ī bunch of years ago, I did some research. It hadn't yet settled into this meaning that is "to throw." It wasn't perceptively even verbal, necessarily. When I first became aware of it, maybe about five years ago, I was hearing it and seeing it occasionally, and it was often used with a meaning that was indecipherable. Now I have, in recent years when I've been talking to audiences of various types before, I have used yeet as an example of a word that is kind of in search of a meaning. Yeah, my 10-year-old also uses the word in that way, and sometimes uses the word interjectionally when he is yeeting something, which he does occasionally do. He more talks about yeeting them, or things that deserve to be yeeted, than he does actually yeet things, I think. Are you all familiar with it, Peter and Ammon?
This is spelled Y-E-E-T, and this is a word that I've been paying attention to for quite a while. What conditions would need to be met for it to leave the pages of the Urban Dictionary and be defined in Merriam Webster? I personally prefer "toss it" or "fling it" when my daughter might just say, "Just yeet it," and I appreciate the verbal force it contains. The word yeet is very popular with my preteen children and has currency online, at least on Twitter, where I see it used multi-generationally. New slang words pop up all the time, but we can't just yeet them all into the dictionary, can we? No, of course not. On each episode, Merriam Webster editors Ammon Shea, Peter Sokolowski and I explore some aspect of the English language from the dictionary's vantage point. I'm Emily Brewster, and Word Matters is produced by Merriam Webster in collaboration with New England Public Media. What's the difference between a typeface and a font?Ĭoming up on Word Matters, some questions from you. We're back to the mailbag this week with some excellent questions, including:
0 kommentar(er)
