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“Get hype” vs “get hyped” - why is it always “get hype”?
Posted on 9/4/22 at 8:49 am
Posted on 9/4/22 at 8:49 am
I’m old when it comes to today’s slang, I admit it. I just recently somewhat learned the phrase “bet” though I’m still not quite sure how to use it in a sentence. That said, maybe I don’t fully understand the term “hype” and how to use it but I know this: nothing pisses me off more than when I see legitimate news organizations saying “get hype” instead of “get hyped”.
“Get hype” makes no fricking sense. It’s incorrect English - though most slang is - but still, it doesn’t even make this slang term (if hype even is a slang term) when you say “get hype”. It makes me irrationally judgemental and I can’t be the only one in this boat.
It’s like if you wanted to tell someone to get excited, you would say “get excited”, not “get excite”.
So please set the record straight, all you yutes here, because this 37 year old old man just doesn’t understand — why “get hype” instead of “get hyped”?
“Get hype” makes no fricking sense. It’s incorrect English - though most slang is - but still, it doesn’t even make this slang term (if hype even is a slang term) when you say “get hype”. It makes me irrationally judgemental and I can’t be the only one in this boat.
It’s like if you wanted to tell someone to get excited, you would say “get excited”, not “get excite”.
So please set the record straight, all you yutes here, because this 37 year old old man just doesn’t understand — why “get hype” instead of “get hyped”?
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Posted on 9/4/22 at 8:51 am to TDsngumbo
Go to bed old man
Posted on 9/4/22 at 8:55 am to TDsngumbo
Posted on 9/4/22 at 8:55 am to TDsngumbo
Get hype and get hyped are both dumb
Posted on 9/4/22 at 8:58 am to TDsngumbo
Because the cool kids who start the slang phrases are generally the ones getting Ds and Fs in grammar.
Posted on 9/4/22 at 8:58 am to TDsngumbo
I agree it sounds stupid but I’m assuming the mush brain who made that headline was using it as a noun.
Posted on 9/4/22 at 9:01 am to TDsngumbo
Because Journalists these days couldn’t write their way out of a paper bag
Posted on 9/4/22 at 9:03 am to Proximo
OP ain’t got that DAWG in him, bet
Posted on 9/4/22 at 9:03 am to TDsngumbo
The ghettoization of America
Posted on 9/4/22 at 9:04 am to TDsngumbo
No shot you’re capping this hard
Posted on 9/4/22 at 9:05 am to TDsngumbo
This keeps me up at night too
Posted on 9/4/22 at 9:08 am to TDsngumbo
Xiden’s America isn’t big on grammar and syntax.
Posted on 9/4/22 at 9:12 am to fr33manator
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Because Journalists these days couldn’t write their way out of a paper bag
every generation has its own slang/lingo but the most recent couple of gens seem to try too hard and force "cool" lingo, most of it is pretty dumb sounding
Posted on 9/4/22 at 9:37 am to TDsngumbo
Sounds kinda weird to me but I guess it's no worse than Stand up and get crunk.
Posted on 9/4/22 at 9:38 am to T
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The ghettoization of America
Been moving in that direction for some time. Don’t dare point it out or you’re just some “old simp” who will be laughed at. Willful stupidity.
Posted on 9/4/22 at 10:15 am to LSUBFA83
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Sounds kinda weird to me but I guess it's no worse than Stand up and get crunk.
I would describe "get crunk" as 180 degrees different from this shite. Whoever made up "crunk" invented a past participle based on a very old English-language pattern (think drink / drank / drunk) of a sort that is probably slowly leaving the language (e.g. it's more common to say "dragged" than "drug" now). In a way, it's linguistic conservatism. It's not correct grammar, exactly, but whoever came up with it clearly understood how and why one ought to inflect a verb.
"Get hype," on the other hand, is just lazy. Here we see a pretty key verb inflection just thrown by the wayside because somebody found it difficult to contort his mouth into a "D" sound. It adds nothing to language and it's destructive rather than creative.
Posted on 9/4/22 at 10:48 am to TDsngumbo
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somewhat learned the phrase “bet” though I’m still not quite sure how to use it in a sentence
My 14yo daughter recently explained it to me. It loosely translates to "you can bet on it"
The only appropriate uses are simply "Bet" or "aight, bet"
For example I told her I'd take her to get her nails done if she waxed my truck. Her response was "aight, bet"
Posted on 9/4/22 at 10:53 am to TDsngumbo
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It makes me irrationally judgemental and I can’t be the only one in this boat.
You’re not being irrational
Posted on 9/4/22 at 10:56 am to TDsngumbo
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It makes me irrationally judgemental and I can’t be the only one in this boat.
I spend FAR too much time in this boat. I wish I didn’t, but I can’t seem to help myself.
Posted on 9/4/22 at 11:04 am to TDsngumbo
Language evolves. Look up how people spoke 3 or 4 hundred years ago.
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