“Do you want to do this thing with me?”
“I’m down.”
“I’m up for it.”
In the late 80s, bad and good were the same thing!
This is true in 2014-2024 as well
… Tricks are for kids he plays much gigs
He’s the big bad wolf and you’re the three pigs
He’s the big bad wolf in your neighborhood
Not bad meaning bad, but bad meaning good
Run DMC
More recently, the difference between good and bad is in the presence or absence of the word “the” before “shit”.
This is problem with Russian language.
это радио щит!
“I think he likes the radio”
“But we’ll never know!”
In the game of hell let loose you’re constantly trying to build Garrison’s for your team to spawn on, and destroy Garrison’s so your enemy can’t spawn.
Highly ambiguous
Garrison down on the point!
Does this mean a friendly Garrison was just built? Does this mean the enemy Garrison was just destroyed? Who knows! Why not both?
Schrödinger’s Garrison
Father, I’ve been bad.
Mommy, I’ve been bad.
Mother’s gonna keep baby cozy and warm
Oooh baby, ooh baby, ooh baby
As a non native speaker, this messed me up for years
I always heard about “being up” for something, so I logically assumed that being down meant the inverse. Even more that “feeling down” usually means not being able to do things.
It’s not about the crest or the trough. It’s about the motion of the ocean baby.
Up and down are both disturbed, ya dig? It means the thing made an impression on you. Got under your skin, gave you the itch, it’s bugging you, eating at you, lighting a fire under your ass, putting you in the hot seat.
No more smooth sailing. Buy the ticket, take the ride, you know? Get this idea off the ground, get up and bounce. You know, jump around.
Get up, get up, and get down.
Not to confuse you more, but with your phrasing you are correct.
If you’re up for it, or being up for something, you are interested. Similarly, if you’re down for something, or you’d be down for it, you are interested.
But if you are feeling down, you are not up for it.
The former 2, the verb is the action of being ready.
In the latter, the verb is feeling and down is the state.
For example, despite me feeling down I’m down to go out and party tonight.
Similar to calling in sick and calling out sick.
Because it’s “calling in, sick” and “calling, out sick”
Yeah when you call in Is you have the day off but want to work so you call into work
We “bang out”, when using a sick day.
In my friend circle we will invite each other to stuff and ask “are you up or down?” Then schedule them regardless of response.
Gotta get up to get down.
“I get knocked down! But I get up again! And you’re never gonna keep me down!”
Pissing the night away is also a double entendre, meaning wasting time or literally pissing all night from drinking.
On the other hand, “knocked down” and “knocked up” have drastically different meanings, which is a little confusing for foreigners sometimes. =P
It makes a little more sense with the context that “I’m down” is shortened slang for “I’ll throw down on that”, itself slang for “I will get in on this situation” (as in “throwing down” some money or chips when gambling)
I thought it is short for “I am putting myself down for that” or “put me down for that”. As in, putting yourself down on a list for attending an event.
Flammable. Inflammable. Famous. Infamous. So many dumb prefixes that make no sense.
There really needs to be more language revisions every couple decades to get rid of stupid shit or revise letters, words, and spellings to be more in tune with their phonetic pronunciations.
C / K / S. Remove X. Change letter names to match their sounds.
A / ugh / Ayyy.
B = Buh
C = Removed? It’s just K or S in reality.
D - Dih
E - same?
Etc. etc. there’s better linguists than an old school Grammar Nazi turned Language Darwinist.
I like the idea of removing upper and lower case letters too and changing their denotation with a new symbol, but I’d have to think longer about case studies or could be easily persuaded.
C has some uses other than K/S. The usage in "ch"ess, for instance. We’ll have to shoehorn some other letter here if C is eliminated.
Or we may just reassign “c” to always sound “ch” since it’s freed from other sounds, and save some ink, too 😉
Is it just me or are people also using hands up instead of hands down? As in: this is hands down/up the best post I’ve read all day.
As a non English native this always throws me off.
Aussie chiming in: haven’t heard hands up before, might be a US thing
US here, we use “hands down”.
That is hands down the worst children’s play I’ve ever seen.
I think some people are deliberately trying to fuck up intergenerational understanding by teaching weird or opposite versions of phrases and other cultural tokens
“Hey you want some potato chips?”
- “Potato chip sounds good” => Yes please
- “I’m good” => No thanks
Messed me up all the time first time came to the US. Why use positive response for rejection?
“I’m good” here means “My situation is good” means “I have what I need already”
Saying no is hard in all languages
To me it usually goes like this:
“No.”
Or sometimes:
“Nope.”
Or when I’m feeling polite:
“No, thanks.”
The number of potential misunderstandings in English is why our language is the world favourite lol
Because america does media gooder
‘Hot’ and ‘cool’ can also mean similar things about a person.
You can cut a tree down and then cut that same tree up
