Talk:just

Why does it have a more comparative and a most superlative if it's just a one syllable long adjective? Or it's just slang or regional or dunnowat? Ferike333 18:34, 10 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

It's a borrowing. Though there are parallels to -er & -est in Latin adjectives, only the one form of the word is borrowed. The alternatives are borrowing actual Latin grammar into the language (data, antennae but also antennas) and treating the borrowing as if it's native (nobler, baser but also more base). Both are more work than necessary to use the word, and so they're done less often (in English and other languages) and under particular circumstances. LokiClock 11:46, 26 February 2011 (UTC)Reply

Should this variation direct here or have its own article? According to http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-barber "The Barber, also known as Just Fuck Me Up or JUST, is a series of captioned images featuring photographs of people with botched haircuts or bold hairstyles and transcripts of mock conversations between the subject and their barber." and there appears to be an image board dedicated to this since 2016 at https://8ch.net/just/catalog.html which involves recurring examples of the all-caps word like this.

This is something difficult to search for examples of because google is not case-sensitive. Does anyone know any case sensitive tools for looking at sources? ScratchMarshall (talk) 18:49, 24 January 2018 (UTC)Reply

The verb form is something I've noticed being used on some image boards. I feel like at one point I had read an explanation of what this meant but if so I forgot. I don't really understand the context of its use, although it seems to be regularly capitalized like JUSTed or JUSTing like the above.

• 4 April 2017 "She was the one who tried to smuggle the dogs into Australia thinking Depp's star power granted her immunity from the law. When her dogs were put down she found out it doesn't and she JUSTED him."
• 15 March 2018 "She joined TMNT (actually abhorrently bad) and got JUSTed by Brian Austin Green" .. "wait, I thought she JUSTed him by telling him he couldn't see other girls"

As far as I can tell it appears to mean dump or otherwise "break up with". I'm not really sure of the etymology. ScratchMarshall (talk) 07:01, 25 June 2018 (UTC)Reply

I just may go. --Backinstadiums (talk) 11:23, 9 August 2020 (UTC)Reply

It may well be different in some other dialects of English, but I've always heard the different meanings of "just" pronounced differently, even though they're written the same: "Just" in the sense of "justice" rhymes with "bust," but when "just" is used to mean "only"/"simply" or "exactly" ("just like") the u has the sound of the "oo" in "book." I'm not certain is this other meaning has a separate etymology, but I've always thought of them as too separate words that simply happen to be written the same - just like "resume" meaning to continue again and "resume" meaning a CV. So I think this entry needs to address this issue, and ideally include a separate pronunciation for the "only"/"simply"/"exactly" meanings. -2003:CA:8735:1717:3F6F:C46D:38E3:57E5 14:43, 29 July 2024 (UTC)Reply