What does this phrase mean in the English language?

[helenabrosa]

English is my second language. A close second!

But I am from a place that has it as its official language but uses a mixture of that and something else

The phrase that confused me is 'Go!' In a certain context

So someone will say on a post 'Favourite place to buy baby essentials? Go!'

Or 'Must haves for the plane with toddlers? Go!'

Go where? Is it just saying comment on the post? Isn't it a bit rude to say it like that to a general audience?

Thank you for any insight

It means the same as discuss in this context. Both are rude, unless used after a question on an exam paper!

I don’t find it rude, often used by people I work with when they’re trying to encourage people to come up with ideas etc

That was more or less what I was going to say - it's simulating the invitation to 'go' that you would get at the start of a race.

Phrasing the question that way makes it easier to see what most readers think because the OP can quickly scrol through a list of retailers rather than paragraphs with explanations.

You'd only ever write that on say a Mumsnet type post and it's not very common. It comes from the start of a race like "ready, set, GO!". I take it to be the equivalent of saying "right guys hit me with your best ideas. I wanna hear them🤗" in a playful (not rude) way. You wouldn't say it out loud ever.

It's kind of rude to be a bit bossy but not too much.

I hate when people ask a question and then say discuss!

Who made you the boss?

Like others have said, it comes from "ready, steady, go!" which starts a race. It is a command, which is maybe why it feels rude to some people.

This doesn't help you, I know, but I've only seen that on a Monopoly Board.

In this context, go means start (listing)

It's very presumptive - it assumes that people will instantly respond to the command (and unfortunately, some do). It's a good way of identifying who to block/unfollow because it's a calculated social media strategy purely for increasing revenue, though.

'I want to be able to show higher engagement with my posts without putting any effort in so I can negotiate with brands for a higher rate due to my 'reach'. I know this will work because you're all stupid Mummy-brained cash cows who inexplicably believe all the crap I punt out is my actual perfect life with a perfect house, perfect body, perfect hair, perfect skin, perfect clothes, perfect husband and better-than-perfect offspring and that I actually give the tiniest shit about what you're going to answer. You'll do whatever I want to get me more money because you're stupid and I'm very, very clever and you all want to be noticed by me.

So, my lovely cash cows; favourite biscuit - Go!'

I find it rude because the request for answers/ideas is already covered. Go! is an exhortation from a random stranger which feels pushy.

I heard someone say it in real life once, a young American guy chatting up the woman sat next to him. I was a bit staggered that she indulged him by replying, seemingly not bothered by someone barking 'Go!' At her (can't remember what he was actually asking, her favourite places where she came from or something).

It's a bit rude, along with 'Hit me with ideas for...', though the context of the whole request can make it ok.

No it doesn't.

An acquaintance made a post like that recently on Facebook, All smiley and friendly, with a 'Go' type request. Except she had been daft enough to hashtag it with engagementchallenge (she is a follower of one of those passive income 'gurus').

Er, no, I'm not going to respond just to up your engagement figures for you to display in your passive income group.

I have never heard “go” used in this context before . Sounds like a command to start , like is said to start a race . Sounds very rude to me .

Otherwise known as lazy English.

I'd never heard it being used, but understand it now from the replies... it's like what I might do with a room of Year 3s to excite them for a task, and so quite patronising for adults.

As PP said, it's trying to be snappy and cool for the Internet age, and is less clunky than saying 'Please tell me what's been a success for you!', but sadly reads as pretty rude.

It's a bit like 'This.' on here, rather than 'I agree', or 'My thoughts exactly'.

I think it's rude because it's an imperative. It's an order...there are layers of subtext - expectations that the audience will now do all the legwork. It's a cutesy, giggling sort of manipulation. Makes me roll my eyes and refuse to answer out of sheer bloody mindedness.

When we start a race, we say...
Ready , steady Go!
GO! Is just a very rude way of saying that. Trying to encourage people to post a comment.

I think it's a take off of a known quiz show format that used similar wording to tell people to start listing things in a particular category, and then became used in lots of similar contexts when someone wanted quick answers to things. I don't think it was initially meant to be rude as it was a sort of funny imitation of the original.

But I can see that to people who just see it out of context, it could seem like a random instruction or order, and thus rude.

It has nothing to do with context for me - I'm well aware of the background context.

I'm just not going to jump, run or otherwise answer to a command. I might, if so inclined, answer a polite query.

But the quiz show game wouldn't have had time to ask you politely to play. It's meant to be a fun, timed game, see how many things you can name, under time pressure - a bit of a laugh. That's all it's copying. It wouldn't be a riff on that if they politely queried it.

I've noticed people on social media just making a statement rather than asked a question.

Best place for ice-cream

Window cleaner in Meryton

It's so annoying!

If I had chosen to be on a gameshow I'd have no problem playing along. But I haven't. So I like to be asked, not metaphorically yelled at. Not a big deal of course, but it grates on me enough that I won't ever answer. Tbh this is probably as much effort as I can put into discussing it. 😁

yes, it's quite an irritating way of being asked, I agree! But since that's where it comes from, I don't think it's really a command/yell/rude - just a take-off of a game that's meant to be fun, originally. And it's fine to be irritated by the format. But I think some people haven't got that context about where it came from, so find it rude in a different way because they think they really are being commanded rather than it just being a 'fun' play on a game-show format (whether or not that is actually 'fun' for anyone...).