Honestly, did the word "drop" change meaning in the past few months, or am I just crazy?
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I can't tell if dropped means released or removed?
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.
Would "dropping" a letter not be letting it go from your hand into the mail box?
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)
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.
Ah. Sorry, good thing I attached the related link.
It picked up a lot of use by GenZ+ especially though the phrase "New {something} just dropped".
Goddamn kids
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.
"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.
Just no... Information getting out despite attempts to conceal it, is the secondary meaning of that verb since at least the 19th century.
Thanks for the correction. The latter meaning did gain more prominence in recent years in my perception, but it's not surprising that it already existed in the past.
It's not you
Depends where they dropped the thing. In your lap, or in a bin? Context, as always, is key.
What's not what we expected?
Everybody been rumoring about R2. So releasing this thing kinda unexpected
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I wonder if we can extend the context length. It already fine-tuned with YaRN so we can't get free extend with that method.
What did we expect?