To hate the way some people - usually in the media - use the word 'dropped?'

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I'm not putting this in Pedants Corner because I don't think I'm being pedantic in HATING the way some people use this word now.

Case in point: ITV has 'dropped' all episodes of gripping crime thriller 'Under The Bridge.' I saw that they had done this, and was like 'oh no, why? Has someone who's in it done something wrong?' (been cancelled!) 🙄I wondered if there is something in it that they can't show now?

Noooo, it turns out they meant they are putting all the episodes on ITVX. 🙄

They don't even say 'ITV drops them all onto the ITV player.' No. They have 'dropped' them all. If you hear that someone has been dropped from a team, do you assume they've been put on it? NO. You assume they've been taken OFF it. ARGH!!! Can they stop this nonsensical shite?! 😠Sabrina Carpenter's new single just 'dropped,' Taylor Swift's new album just 'dropped.' No. It was RELEASED.

Rant over. 😂

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'Dropped a roast chicken?!' 😆 That's a new level of batshit isn't it?! 😂

My pet hate is flammable and inflammable meaning the same thing.

I'll just drop that here.

It's so bonkers I actually love it!

A power cut is not generally intentional

Yes,I find this a bit odd too. Other words that I absolutely hate that appear regularly in the media are:-
Shake up.
Crack down.
Fury.
Hand outs.
And - Bask/basked/basking when it's used in relation to extremely hot, uncomfortable weather.

Drop is the whole series being dropped onto the streaming platform so everything is available at once.

Launch is just the start of the series on linear TV - going out once a week or whatever. If it’s only going onto the streaming platform once a week to mirror TV, you wouldn’t say drop.

So launch and drop are slightly different things.

It’s a confusing term though, I agree.

I’ve never really thought about it but Yanbu to think that drops is too vague and they should have used a clearer expression like

ITV has made X available for download.
ITV has made X available for viewing.
ITV has uploaded X to their on demand service.

etc

I think that cancelled is most commonly used with tv but I think that people use “dropped from” as “dropped from tv schedules”

In my line of business it’s very intentional - we do it all the time 😀

I find this Americanism very confusing and always think that the show or whatever has been cancelled.

My pet peeves are ‘forked out’ and ‘tucked in’. Along with ‘breaks cover’, ‘breaks their silence’, ‘leggy display’ and ‘led the stars’. As though celebrities have a WhatsApp chat where they sgree in advance who will ‘lead’ them.

‘Gotten’ does my head in

Yeah, but you dropped it off - not just dropped

But want do they say if they actually drop something on the ground?! I dropped the roast chicken (happy face) but then I dropped the yorkshires (sad face)?

Is slang, not the queens english, it's related to the industry, no different than 'shipping' software.

Some people have nothing better to do than moan.

I can't stand the people who grab food.

I also listen to a podcast where they tell people to 'slide into their DMs' which infuriates me. I think they're asking listeners to send them messages so WTF they can't just say that I'll never know.

Oh I HATE slide into my DMs! 😂

Oh I HATE slide into my DMs! 😂

Yes! Always makes me think of chubby little baby/toddler hands grabbing at things.