Not what we expected…
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Honestly, did the word “drop” change meaning in the past few months, or am I just crazy?
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.
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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.
It picked up a lot of use by GenZ+ especially though the phrase “New {something} just dropped”.
Goddamn kids
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
What did we expect?
