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What's up with "whinging"?
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this post was submitted on 24 Sep 2023
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It started getting used in the US a lot more after it was said by The Hound in an episode of Game of Thrones
"So what are you whinging about?"
"I'm not whinging!"
"Your lips are moving and you're complaining about something. That's whinging."
This is actually a great insight.
I'm American but I like a lot of British TV so I was already familiar with it but I definitely noticed the uptick. It's not the most famous scene but people like it enough to have it clipped on YouTube
Same here with British TV. I hadn't noticed any uptick, but I'd be happy if the term was adopted.
Are you a language statistician or something? How could you possibly make that claim lol
Linguist.
But no I remember this as well. It was quoted a ton after and gained a lot of traction. If you look at google trends since you want a “language statistician,” you can see “Sandor Clegane” is still the 4th most associated topic when “whinging” was searched this past week even though that episode aired 5+ years ago.
It’s easy to be snarky on the Internet. Maybe next time you should just do a cursory Google search or ask for clarification with a little more humility/good intent instead of being needlessly rude and challenging.
Seems like a fair assessment, even if it's unprovable. Not a bad heuristic to assume things get adopted from the biggest show to have ever aired.
You got a counter claim?
Yes.
Baader-Meinhoff phenomenon. They heard it on the show and started hearing it everywhere. It wasn't mass adopted after the fact.
Sandor Clegane is #4 most related topic when searching “Whinge” on google trends even though that episode aired several years ago. It’s a reasonable assumption. Go look for yourself.
Can we not do that Reddit thing where people just accuse people of bad faith or attribute literally everything they don’t agree with to a fallacy or some such? If you or the other person had literally taken 30 seconds to look at Google trends, you might have even come to the same conclusion yourselves.
Not bad, both easily plausible. Next time you disagree, offer a civil counterclaim and it's more likely to go down well.
How hard was that?
But then you wouldn't get all worked up about it
This is the kind of act we really don’t need around here. We have enough trolls on other forums. At least try and act with a hint of mutual respect here dude.
"But then you wouldn't get all worked up about it"
READ: "You're right"
Take care mate, it's only a post. Peace
This is probably closer to the truth, as I first heard it in Firefly in 2002 before I started hearing it everywhere.
Not so sure about the first part of your name
I just saw it getting used by non-british people after the show when I didn't before. It's an anecdote. I don't have statistics and if you care enough to prove me wrong I'll accept it's confirmation bias