Timeline for Meaning of "excited much", "stalker much"
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| Jul 6, 2017 at 4:47 | answer | added | rob | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 11, 2013 at 9:11 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/344381248636076032 | ||
| Jun 3, 2013 at 19:12 | vote | accept | alecail | ||
| May 27, 2013 at 21:11 | comment | added | B. Szonye | @RoryAlsop This is totally Generation X slang! I appreciate you saying that we're “young speakers,” although I would expect actual young people to say something more like “You mad bro?” ;) | |
| May 27, 2013 at 21:07 | history | edited | B. Szonye |
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| May 27, 2013 at 20:57 | comment | added | B. Szonye | @KristinaLopez The Language Log article I cited in my answer talks about how people use “X much?” even in cases where X doesn't readily fit the logic of a full question. | |
| May 27, 2013 at 20:56 | answer | added | B. Szonye | timeline score: 17 | |
| May 27, 2013 at 20:31 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @Martha: I've already spent more time on TVTropes than doctors would advise for lifetime exposure. Now I'm always careful to lay a trail of cookie crumbs between my bed and the keyboard before I venture in there! | |
| May 27, 2013 at 20:20 | comment | added | Kristina Lopez | My problem with the question is that as familiar as I am with "(X) much?", the OP's examples don't really fit the model. For example, I can understand "stalk much?" But not "stalker much?" and "get excited much?" but not "excited much?" which is why I asked for full sentence examples. I think this question should be better documented and retagged for idiom usage. | |
| May 27, 2013 at 18:49 | comment | added | The Photon | From personal experience, this usage has been around since at least the mid-90's. As @dingo_dan points out, it should generally be punctuated with a question mark. | |
| May 27, 2013 at 18:31 | comment | added | user39720 | The contexts I've heard X much? in general seem disparate to me: I've seen Jealous much? used in a taunting way that means "Shouldn't you be feeling jealous (of me) right now?" AND in a moderating way that means "Don't you think you're acting a bit too jealous?" Without inflection or other contextual cues, I don't think I can say with certainty what the speaker means. | |
| May 27, 2013 at 18:21 | comment | added | Marthaª | @FumbleFingers: blame Joss Whedon (warning: black hole, ahem, sorry, TVTropes link) | |
| May 27, 2013 at 18:19 | comment | added | Rory Alsop | I'm not meaning the stalker bit. Just the use of 'much' after pretty much anything:-) | |
| May 27, 2013 at 18:12 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @Rory: It's still non-standard and Too Localised say far as I'm concerned. I find it hard to believe that many young speakers find themselves needing to ask something like "Do you often behave like a stalker?" in just two words like that. | |
| May 27, 2013 at 17:50 | comment | added | Rory Alsop | @FumbleFingers - this is from young native speakers. It isn't standard English, but it is common slang. | |
| May 27, 2013 at 17:34 | answer | added | GetzelR | timeline score: 13 | |
| May 27, 2013 at 17:21 | comment | added | alecail | I doubt it. Unless I have not heard correctly, Kari Byron pronounced it in the latest Mythbusters episode (racing cars myths) at 7:50 during the presentation of their myth. I | |
| May 27, 2013 at 17:05 | review | Close votes | |||
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| May 27, 2013 at 16:53 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I think these are both totally non-grammatical usages from non-native speakers. My guess is they're often generated by Chinese/Japanese speakers who just assume much is a "general-purpose intensifier". So excited much is a non-standard attempt to convey very excited, and stalker much is an even more non-standard attempt to convey person who very much displays the qualities of being a stalker. Anyway, they're not remotely "standard English", so I think the question is Too Localised for ELU (but might be relevant to English Language Learners). | |
| May 27, 2013 at 16:46 | history | edited | RegDwigнt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 27, 2013 at 16:01 | comment | added | Kristina Lopez | You'll probably need to include a full sentence example or two to convey the context of your question. | |
| May 27, 2013 at 15:21 | history | asked | alecail | CC BY-SA 3.0 |