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"Monster outs Diddy-designed iPhone, iPod in-ears"
Has anyone noticed that MacNN have started using the expression "outs" instead of "releases".
Maybe i'm getting old, but is this now common place, or is it MacNN's attempt at trying to be cool.
Seems strange that they would replace perfectly good words like "releases", "launches" with another world which completely changes the meaning and makes it harder to scan.
Does anyone actually prefer "outs"?
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A) it's not new usage when used this way.
B) howevah, in colloquial usage, "to out" generally means exposing a closet homosexual.
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This usage is not in any thesaurus or dictionary I can find.
I think Macnn made it up to sound cool.
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I noticed that months ago, and I find it annoying.
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Apparently inspired by the pretentious "drop", as in "my new CD drops next week."
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It's like people replacing "competition" with "killer".
It annoys the **** out of me.
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Unnamed source outs the date of iPad killer drop.
(how'd I do?)
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You did that on porpoise.
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Originally Posted by moonmonkey 
This usage is not in any thesaurus or dictionary I can find.
I think Macnn made it up to sound cool.
I've heard "outs" used in this context since the late 1990s, colloquially. Or was that the early 2000s? Either way, this usage has been around for a long time.
That said, I prefer "releases".
Originally Posted by Phileas
It's like people replacing "competition" with "killer".
It annoys the **** out of me.
IMO, these have different meanings. An iPhone was touted by some as a Blackberry killer. OTOH, recent Nokia smartphones are basically never touted as Blackberry killers, just the competition.
(Last edited by Eug; Jan 31, 2010 at 12:16 AM.
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It's certainly not US standard English, and it sounds weird from that standpoint. Perhaps they use it in other English speaking countries.
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Originally Posted by Big Mac
It's certainly not US standard English, and it sounds weird from that standpoint. Perhaps they use it in other English speaking countries.
Like the US of A and Canada.
It's colloquial, not "standard".
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As touched on above, I've always thought of "outs" used in this way to mean that someone exposed something someone was trying to keep secret, not that someone released/unveiled something on purpose.
Honestly, I suspect that someone heard the word used in this way, thought it sounded cool, and started using it all willy-nilly without distinction.
For shame.
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As Calvin pointed out so well to us, "Verbing weirds the language".
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Originally Posted by Doc HM
As Calvin pointed out so well to us, "Verbing weirds the language".
It's a perfectly cromulent word.
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Originally Posted by SpaceMonkey
It's a perfectly cromulent word.
Indeed; we all need to embiggen our vocabularies and the usages associated with them.
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"Yields a falsehood when preceded by its quotation" yields a falsehood when preceded by its quotation.
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Originally Posted by moonmonkey
"Monster outs Diddy-designed iPhone, iPod in-ears"
Has anyone noticed that MacNN have started using the expression "outs" instead of "releases".
Maybe i'm getting old, but is this now common place, or is it MacNN's attempt at trying to be cool.
Seems strange that they would replace perfectly good words like "releases", "launches" with another world which completely changes the meaning and makes it harder to scan.
Does anyone actually prefer "outs"?
It is not in MacNN's interest that you are able to scan the headlines. They and all newspapers would have cryptic bait for all their articles if they could, unless a biased underhanded ridicule is possible too.
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I read a LOT of press releases and articles, and never once did I hear/read the word "outs" used this way.
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I hate the phrase, "having said that."
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