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Every generation uses this. I had a 60-year old coworker who said this to me when she was training me years ago.

by cko 1y ago

thomassmith65 1y ago
Yes and no. Mainly no: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=you+got+this&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=you+got+this&y... No doubt there are older people who use the phrase today, but that's still more annoying; they are the older people who are very proud of inserting 'cray cray' and 'yeet' into conversations.
- robertlagrant 1y ago
  > they are the older people who are very proud of inserting 'cray cray' and 'yeet' into conversations Those people are just delulu.
- throwaway0665 1y ago
  Since most authors are probably 40+ your link seems to corroborate the above comment.
  - thomassmith65 1y ago
    I can't say who exactly is responsible for 'you got this'. It just began to grate at me the year when every new movie or tv show had a character saying it. A similar phrase is 'I need you to', which appeared around the same time. Eg: 'Okay, I need you to calm down' or 'I really need you to be supportive right now', etc. To my ears it sounds gratingly self-entitled.
- sph 1y ago
  You can pry “yeet” from my cold, dead hands. It’s a great onomatopoeic word to express the feeling of throwing something with great force. “Mark had enough of his job, so he stood and yeeted his laptop out of the window.”
  - thomassmith65 1y ago
    'Flung' sounds better to me, but my original comment admittedly was performative. I don't really believe my word choices are objectively better than anyone else's.
- CuriouslyC 1y ago
  Cray cray is the worst, longer and sounds dumb. At least yeet can be funny if you're referencing a meme/being intentionally ironic. I'm not sure there's another great word to replace it anyhow, chuck or hurl are probably the closest but don't imply the level of reckless abandon, and aren't quite as "multi-purpose" in terms of understood contexts.
- nsxwolf 1y ago
  Why was there a pronounced dip right before it exploded? It’s like watching the tide roll way out before a tsunami hits.
  - thomassmith65 1y ago
    It might be just a quirk with the corpus Google uses. If it's not a quirk, then it is probably due to one usage of the words (eg: "So you got this angry customer, see?") peaking in the 1940s, and a different usage (eg: "You can do it... you got this!") rising in the 2000s.

Every generation uses this. I had a 60-year old coworker who said this to me when she was training me years ago.

by cko 1y ago

Every generation uses this. I had a 60-year old coworker who said this to me when she was training me years ago.

Yes and no. Mainly no: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=you+got+this&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=you+got+this&y... No doubt there are older people who use the phrase today, but that's still more annoying; they are the older people who are very proud of inserting 'cray cray' and 'yeet' into conversations.

robertlagrant 1y ago
> they are the older people who are very proud of inserting 'cray cray' and 'yeet' into conversations Those people are just delulu.
throwaway0665 1y ago
Since most authors are probably 40+ your link seems to corroborate the above comment.
- thomassmith65 1y ago
  I can't say who exactly is responsible for 'you got this'. It just began to grate at me the year when every new movie or tv show had a character saying it. A similar phrase is 'I need you to', which appeared around the same time. Eg: 'Okay, I need you to calm down' or 'I really need you to be supportive right now', etc. To my ears it sounds gratingly self-entitled.
sph 1y ago
You can pry “yeet” from my cold, dead hands. It’s a great onomatopoeic word to express the feeling of throwing something with great force. “Mark had enough of his job, so he stood and yeeted his laptop out of the window.”
- thomassmith65 1y ago
  'Flung' sounds better to me, but my original comment admittedly was performative. I don't really believe my word choices are objectively better than anyone else's.
CuriouslyC 1y ago
Cray cray is the worst, longer and sounds dumb. At least yeet can be funny if you're referencing a meme/being intentionally ironic. I'm not sure there's another great word to replace it anyhow, chuck or hurl are probably the closest but don't imply the level of reckless abandon, and aren't quite as "multi-purpose" in terms of understood contexts.
nsxwolf 1y ago
Why was there a pronounced dip right before it exploded? It’s like watching the tide roll way out before a tsunami hits.
- thomassmith65 1y ago
  It might be just a quirk with the corpus Google uses. If it's not a quirk, then it is probably due to one usage of the words (eg: "So you got this angry customer, see?") peaking in the 1940s, and a different usage (eg: "You can do it... you got this!") rising in the 2000s.