Every time I hear someone say ‘eh’ in a questioning tone or to mean ‘um actually’ I lose my shit. Or even just to play something down.
Like I literally come to hate the person instantly. Its a very strong feeling on a very small sound.
Instant downvotes if I see it on Lemmy too. HATE IT.
How about all y’all?
I’ve seen/heard a few Americans (old and young) saying something like “it has been a minute” to indicate “it has been a long time”. What the hell is that? How did that start? Please someone enlighten me
I guess it’s the opposite of “I won’t be a minute”, which means I’ll be fast.
Great flag, by the way.
It’s just a euphemism, it’s a sentence made funny by how much it understates the reality of the situation
That one’s been around long enough I doubt anyone really knows its origin. It does follow a pattern of using the minute to describe various amounts of time.
For instance, a ‘New York minute’ means extremely quickly and a ‘hot minute’ is a long time, but much less than just ‘it’s been a minute’.