Cannot stand the overuse of the word "literally" as a point of emphasis, and not a point of emphasis with a distinction(i.e. not figuratively), I really hate it when someone pronounces it "litrally". ******* GROSS!
"All of the Sudden?"
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Opened this thinking it was a music thread and was ready with The Motels Suddenly Last Summer.
Disappointed.
No, it just kind of seemed like you were a little surprised a gen z person didn’t know the phrase/that it was a fairly well known phrase. From my reaction and others, it looks like it isn’t
Ignorance is no excuse. Just because you don't know it, doesn't mean it's not well known. I mean you looked it up and found it, right? It's only from the best selling book of all-time, so to say it's not well-known is disingenuous at best.
I also had no idea; if someone doesn't read the Bible they would have never heard it.
Also the Bible might be the best selling but also it’s rarely actually read by many doing the purchasing. Certainly not enough that a random throw away line should be considered common vernacular.
After pondering, I wonder if "all the sudden" sprang from how "all of a sudden" can sound if people say it quickly, so some people hear "of a" as "the." (Say aloud "all-va-sudden")
[Later]
Server: "How perfect was your cheeseburger?"
Me: (I can only nod in agreement)
I encountered the "perfect" dialogue for the first time at least 12 years ago, including the quoted line. Now it seems to be standard or at least a ubiquitous part of server lingo.
I hesitate to theorize, but I thought perhaps some early, but highly copied AI phrase thesaurus, had it.
People are using AI so much that it has become more common both from people using AI and people seeing it in print and thinking that's correct/acceptable.
No because I didn’t (and still don’t) really care about the phrase. Also, “ignorance is no excuse?” Why are they ignorant for not knowing the phrase, and why does there need to be any kind of excuse. No one did anything wrong.
I also disagree that just because the phrase is found in the Bible means that it’s well known. Even among Christians. It could be and we’ve just missed it, but I don’t think it is.
Either way, you seem a lot more fired up about this than you need to be.
To be fair, the first contentious post regarding this was you taking offense when someone said they had never heard it. You acted like they accused you of making it up when he did nothing of the sort.
Let it go...
Similar/related:
"... if I'm being honest."
"... to tell you the truth."
"...not gonna lie."
