Resurgence of the American "Neat" Phrase

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Resurgence of the American "Neat" Phrase

Post Post #0 (ISO) » Sun Nov 01, 2015 11:28 pm

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Why did everyone all of a sudden begin saying this or that is "Neat" again?
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Post Post #1 (ISO) » Sun Nov 01, 2015 11:30 pm

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Egh this should be in GD, not speakeasy.

Mooooods!!! Please move :)
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Post Post #2 (ISO) » Mon Nov 02, 2015 12:28 am

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In post 1, talah wrote:Mooooods!!! Please move :)
I expected a more moody response.

(also, let me know when "swell" becomes a thing again so I can emigrate)
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Post Post #3 (ISO) » Mon Nov 02, 2015 1:21 am

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I tend to use "neat" sarcastically.
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Post Post #4 (ISO) » Mon Nov 02, 2015 1:25 am

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Post Post #5 (ISO) » Mon Nov 02, 2015 5:19 am

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I use neat both sarcastically and seriously! I mostly just find it to be an entertaining word to use.
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Post Post #6 (ISO) » Mon Nov 02, 2015 6:32 am

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I have always used that word in that way. Fucking people jumping on my bandwagon. But can we all just be happy that, "Sucks to Suck" has stopped being used.
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Post Post #7 (ISO) » Mon Nov 02, 2015 6:58 am

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Post Post #8 (ISO) » Mon Nov 02, 2015 7:02 am

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If I call something neat it's probably not something you would consider neat.
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Post Post #9 (ISO) » Mon Nov 02, 2015 9:11 am

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Awesome.
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Post Post #10 (ISO) » Mon Nov 02, 2015 11:11 am

Post by Save The Dragons »

This thread is pretty neat
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Post Post #11 (ISO) » Mon Nov 02, 2015 12:27 pm

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Post Post #12 (ISO) » Mon Nov 02, 2015 12:29 pm

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In post 4, Plotinus wrote:marvy
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Post Post #13 (ISO) » Mon Nov 02, 2015 7:23 pm

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nope not convinced this is a thing
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Post Post #14 (ISO) » Wed Nov 04, 2015 12:13 am

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Yeah well it's a thing, guy. Twitch has begun to proliferate with "neat". It won't be long until you're under the spell and don't know what happened and are powerless to do anything except conform.

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Post Post #15 (ISO) » Wed Nov 04, 2015 12:24 am

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Actually, this thread reminds me.

At what point did "baby" become a term of endearment? Like why would you even etc.
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Post Post #16 (ISO) » Wed Nov 04, 2015 1:26 am

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It predates Justin Bieber. I believe Britney was the first person ever to say it.
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Post Post #17 (ISO) » Wed Nov 04, 2015 1:38 am

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In post 16, talah wrote:It predates Justin Bieber. I believe Britney was the first person ever to say it.


Informal sense of "very good" first recorded 1934 in American English; variant neato is teenager slang, first recorded 1968. Related: Neatly; neatness.

http://etymonline.com/index.php?term=ne ... in_frame=0
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Post Post #18 (ISO) » Wed Nov 04, 2015 2:04 am

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it's beaut, a real ripper.
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Post Post #19 (ISO) » Wed Nov 04, 2015 12:29 pm

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In post 17, Plotinus wrote:
In post 16, talah wrote:It predates Justin Bieber. I believe Britney was the first person ever to say it.


Informal sense of "very good" first recorded 1934 in American English; variant neato is teenager slang, first recorded 1968. Related: Neatly; neatness.

http://etymonline.com/index.php?term=ne ... in_frame=0

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Post Post #20 (ISO) » Wed Nov 04, 2015 1:17 pm

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Words like this always come back. First ironically, then for real.

I think it's nifty, personally.
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Post Post #21 (ISO) » Wed Nov 04, 2015 1:20 pm

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I think its swell.
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Post Post #22 (ISO) » Wed Nov 04, 2015 3:58 pm

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I always thought that "neat" was a common word and that people have always used it non-ironically. I suppose all of you must be far cooler than I am.
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Post Post #23 (ISO) » Thu Nov 05, 2015 1:05 am

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To be fair an english-speaking german and then a native US guy with asian heritage on twitch both started saying it a lot at the same time.
I was just like "OMG IT'S NEAT AGAIN WHY ARE YOU GUISE SAYING NEAT, NEAT IS REALLY REALLY NON-NEAT"

So you know I had sick reasons.
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