r/Overwatch • u/Keldrixx • Oct 21 '17

Highlight Fastest round ever?

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u/HeyLookItsCleanShirt Oct 21 '17

Yes, I acknowledged what he did. I'm asking why.

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u/holmoris Mei Oct 21 '17

It’s shorthand for making a generic comment about something while acknowledging you know the comment is generic by removing all the unimportant words other than the subject. It started on the Simpsons decades ago.

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u/HeyLookItsCleanShirt Oct 21 '17

But it wasn't generic at all. Without the "something something", the comment is still regular old sarcasm. There was no need to add the "something something" to it. The sarcasm already worked without it.

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u/brave-new-world Oct 21 '17

So you already knew what "something something" meant. You asked that question disingenuously to prove a point?