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[–] deafboy@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Honestly, did the word "drop" change meaning in the past few months, or am I just crazy?

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago

I can't tell if dropped means released or removed?

[–] terminatortwo@piefed.social 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Not really, it’s just more common!

Drop is a contronym, it means its own opposite, and its use as “disappear” or “appear” extends waaay back. Eg. Usage as in Drop a line or drop a letter go as far as the 1700s.

So just a different line in a long history of drops.

https://www.oed.com/dictionary/drop_v

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Would "dropping" a letter not be letting it go from your hand into the mail box?

[–] terminatortwo@piefed.social 1 points 3 months ago

Yeah I imagine so. From the examples there it’s either things that drop into place (dropped into town, dropped upon them, dropped ashore, dropped a goal), or from it (dropped back, dropped away, dropped from view)

[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Its an ambiguous slang statement that can mean several different things at once. It requires extra work to ground in a well-defined meaning.

Much in the same way 'going to the bank' could mean a financial institution or a river, 'dropping' something can mean releasing a new thing, stopping support, or physically fumbling an object on the ground. OP could have done a better job disambiguating with either different words or more context.

[–] pepperfree@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ah. Sorry, good thing I attached the related link.

[–] vividspecter@aussie.zone 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

More like in the past 10 years or so, but yes. On a side note, "leaked" has also subtly changed meaning from the actual product (such as a game being released early through piracy etc) to just information about the product.

[–] afk_strats@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It picked up a lot of use by GenZ+ especially though the phrase "New {something} just dropped".

[–] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

Goddamn kids

[–] hummingbird@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

It's not you

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

Depends where they dropped the thing. In your lap, or in a bin? Context, as always, is key.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What's not what we expected?

[–] pepperfree@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

Everybody been rumoring about R2. So releasing this thing kinda unexpected

[–] snikta@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

What did we expect?