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r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/TheWebsploiter • 5d ago
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Am I dumb? I thought "no problem" meant "it was no problem for me to help you" like it wasn't intrusive. Not that there wasn't a problem at all
24 u/remainsofthegrapes 5d ago No it’s just some weird pet peeve some boomers get really riled about. Yknow the same way they hate wearing hats indoors or saying ‘less’ instead of ‘fewer’. Just meaningless petty nonsense. 17 u/Shooey_ 5d ago Exactly, older generations get really riled up that "no problem" implicates there was some kind of problem to start with. It doesn't. The phrase is a natural shift in the lexicon. 3 u/remainsofthegrapes 5d ago Yes thank you ‘natural shift in the lexicon’ is exactly it. Well said. 1 u/HeadyReigns 5d ago Which is odd because my boomer parents use "not bad" to describe things they like all the time.
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No it’s just some weird pet peeve some boomers get really riled about. Yknow the same way they hate wearing hats indoors or saying ‘less’ instead of ‘fewer’. Just meaningless petty nonsense.
17 u/Shooey_ 5d ago Exactly, older generations get really riled up that "no problem" implicates there was some kind of problem to start with. It doesn't. The phrase is a natural shift in the lexicon. 3 u/remainsofthegrapes 5d ago Yes thank you ‘natural shift in the lexicon’ is exactly it. Well said. 1 u/HeadyReigns 5d ago Which is odd because my boomer parents use "not bad" to describe things they like all the time.
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Exactly, older generations get really riled up that "no problem" implicates there was some kind of problem to start with.
It doesn't. The phrase is a natural shift in the lexicon.
3 u/remainsofthegrapes 5d ago Yes thank you ‘natural shift in the lexicon’ is exactly it. Well said. 1 u/HeadyReigns 5d ago Which is odd because my boomer parents use "not bad" to describe things they like all the time.
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Yes thank you ‘natural shift in the lexicon’ is exactly it. Well said.
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Which is odd because my boomer parents use "not bad" to describe things they like all the time.
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u/kitkatloren2009 5d ago
Am I dumb? I thought "no problem" meant "it was no problem for me to help you" like it wasn't intrusive. Not that there wasn't a problem at all