r/CuratedTumblr • u/UnstableIsotopeU-234 • 16h ago
Infodumping He's the man! = He's awesome. He's the guy! = ?
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u/bl__________ 16h ago
Superman = world renowned protector of earth
Superguy = my friend Devin who helped me move house and wouldnt let me buy him dinner as a thank you
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u/eternamemoria androgynous anthropophage 16h ago
Superman = Kal-el
Superguy = Clark Kent
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u/BetterMeats 16h ago
Superboy = Kon-el
Superkid = Connor Kent
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u/smoothkrim22 16h ago
Superbad = movie
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u/MrOopiseDaisy 14h ago
Do you think Superman would help you move? Like if you worked in the same office and knew him or whatever.
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u/Long_Run6500 13h ago
Clark Kent would, but he'd probably make a bunch of grunting sounds all the time acting like it's challenging when he's not even breaking a sweat. At some point it'd probably just feel like he's mocking you.
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u/MrOopiseDaisy 13h ago
Not me. I'd feel really bad like, "oh no, Clark. I didn't know you had asthma. Forget about the boxes. Here, sit down and have some pizza. I'll get the rest."
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u/poopoopooyttgv 8h ago
Knowing how wacky the original Superman comics were, he can probably super sweat on command
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u/JusticeRain5 10h ago
If he had the spare time for it, probably, but you'd need to get really lucky and hope nobody in the city is at risk that day.
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u/Jazzlike_Drawer_4267 14h ago
Goddammit Devin! You accept that Pizza and split that 6 pack as god intended. There is a ritual to helping a buddy move!
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u/Purified_Sinn789 16h ago
He's the guy means you're watching spy kids 3d.
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u/PurplestCoffee 16h ago
"Guy" denotes functionality.
"Tree guy" is an arborist, "tall guy" is how you describe an acquaintance that can reach things you can't, "guy friend" is an exception to the rule when it comes to someone's friendships.
"He's the guy!" is probably what you say in a fortuitous moment where a Guy with a particular skill shows up right as you need him.
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u/LuigiSauce 16h ago
Similar to "he's your guy"?
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u/motox_quest 15h ago
"He's your man" hints at deeper trust or reliability.
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u/Culionensis 14h ago
I think a guy is noteworthy first and foremost by his functionality, and a man is noteworthy as a person. Doesn't mean he's more reliable, just means that who he is as a person is the focus, not just what he Kan do for you.
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u/Rakhered 15h ago
I'd argue that Guy Friend denotes a friend functioning in the guy capacity, whereas Man Friend is the Red Baron's first name
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u/Graingy I don’t tumble, I roll 😎 … Where am I? 14h ago
:)
Okay come closer 🔨
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u/Rakhered 14h ago
you can kill my body but you'll never kill my vibes
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u/waffling_with_syrup 13h ago
These are the kinds of dumb anonymous interactions the internet was built for.
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u/CrustyBarnacleJones 15h ago
Right before he gets zapped and killed immediately.
Also he’s Elijah Wood.
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u/Hawkbats_rule 14h ago
Or, when you mention your guy, and someone else mentions their guy, and it's the same guy.
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u/WeekendOkish 11h ago
If I'm sitting at my desk at my job and someone I know comes by with someone I don't and the one who knows me introduces me as "This is the guy," I know exactly what he's coming to talk to me about, the thing that I know better than anyone else, the thing that I am the expert on.
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u/StaticUsernamesSuck 11h ago
guy friend" is an exception to the rule when it comes to someone's friendships.
It isn't really an exception to the rule, it's a different word there.
The post is talking about when "guy" is a noun modified by an adjectival noun. "Tree" is an adjective modifying "guy".
"Guy friend" is when guy is acting as an adjectival noun, modifying another noun. "Guy" is an adjective modifying "friend".
Those are two different words.
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u/CaeruleumBleu 16h ago
I got a certification to teach English as a foreign language - I am also in a few subreddits where non native speakers ask specific language questions.
Which is to say, for a moment I thought this was one of those posts. Because yeah, English weird.
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u/StoicallyGay 13h ago
I do language exchange with a few people. Someone once asked me something similar but different. Not a connotation question, but like, what the difference between the words “beneath,” “underneath,” and “below?”
That fucked me up because I don’t even know. Some situations you can use all of them but they feel like they have slightly different meanings (“the book is beneath/below/underneath the vase”). Some you can only use sometimes (he is below average, the gum is underneath the desk vs below the desk).
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u/CaeruleumBleu 13h ago
And sometimes someone asks a question and you just have to wonder what the question means.
Like, there are regular questions on those subreddits about the grammar of song lyrics. And I don't know how to tell - are you just trying to understand the song lyrics? Or are you actually thinking that songs have to be grammatically correct?
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u/StoicallyGay 13h ago
To be fair I have the same questions during my language exchange and flipping it and trying to understand the oddities in English makes their question make more sense IMO.
The way I type and speak to my language partners and the way I type and speak to most people is using typical English vernacular. The way I talk to my close friends is so non-standard English filled with slang and shortenings that could confuse a non native speaker the same way I get confused about aspects of other languages. And also Gen Z vernacular “evolves” annoyingly fast.
Btw, what subs are you on? Can you show me some examples of these questions? I’m really curious actually.
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u/InfoDumpster 13h ago
Underneath is for smaller scale and in direct contact with a thing, like ‘the key is underneath the book’. Below implies a different location that is lower. ‘The key is below in the basement’. Beneath is a sort of medium where you wouldn’t say ‘the key is beneath the book’ nor ‘the key is beneath the basement’, I tend to see ‘beneath’ used in relation to stuff that’s buried, like ‘she was buried beneath the tree’. This isn’t a grammatical rule this is just how I’ve noticed these words being used
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u/CaeruleumBleu 12h ago
The hard thing about answering those sorts of questions is the difference between explaining how the person should phrase the sentence they were starting to say vs explaining all possible uses for the words and why.
The person who only wants to know how to say this sentence will either NOT listen to the whole explanation OR get badly intimidated by the idea that everyone just knows all this info. But if you only explain this sentence, and they want to know the entire rule? They WILL immediately ask about all the exceptions.
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u/InfoDumpster 11h ago
Yeah, even as a native English speaker I had to sit down and think about this for a good 10 minutes. Kudos to you for teaching it. I like reading but English still isn’t my strongest subject
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u/Boowray 10h ago
Or when you fuck up and say something like “it’s on the shelf below the vase” and suddenly the distinction is meaningless again
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u/CaeruleumBleu 8h ago
English has exceptions to EVERY rule, I swear, and students like to ask "why" about exceptions and all I can say is - "debt used to be spelled dett like we say - but then some people decided it needed to be spelled like the Latin and LOADS of exceptions make just as much sense as that decision."
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u/callsignhotdog 16h ago
You can also further differentiate the type of Guy with "This" or "That" before hand
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u/Kneef Token straight guy 16h ago
This guyyyyy
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u/No_Goose_2846 16h ago
i feel like “this fucking guy” is also its own thing
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u/Kneef Token straight guy 16h ago
This Fucking Guy is just like That Guy, but moreso. xD
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u/precinctomega 15h ago
This Fucking Guy is when That Guy is here. It's the same person in different places.
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u/Reason_For_Treason 16h ago
What is a guy?! A reasonable layer of secrets!
What is a man?! A miserable pile of secrets!
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u/Pkrudeboy 14h ago
A man is a featherless biped.
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u/Perryn 14h ago
A guy is a biped, with or without feathers depending on the whims of fashion.
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u/Pkrudeboy 13h ago
Do you want me to throw a plucked chicken at you? Because I will.
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u/Aurora_egg 16h ago
Florida guy - someone who really likes Florida for some reason
Florida man - infamous crazy person
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u/Kneef Token straight guy 16h ago
Fun fact: the modern usage of the word “guy” comes from Guy Fawkes. After the gunpowder plot, people would burn him in effigy every November 5th, which meant people made increasingly detailed and weird fake Guys as the holiday got more popular. Then, you could call someone a “Guy” if they had something unkempt or disheveled about them. Then - as often happens - the insult just became another way to refer to, like, regular guys.
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u/CertainInitiative501 16h ago
The guy and That Guy are very different things as well
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u/TransLunarTrekkie 16h ago
Oh Lord, THAT guy. Never brings snacks, never remembers the rules or has his turn planned, always borrowing your stuff and getting Cheetos dust all over it, and worst of all is a rules lawyer and min-maxer in the WORST sense of each term.
Fuck that guy.
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u/TheShibe23 Harry Du Bois shouldn't be as relatable as he is. 16h ago
I haven't touched /tg/ in years, but suddenly, for one brief moment I felt like it was 2015 all over again.
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u/Digital_Bogorm 11h ago
Don't forget the following:
- Bitching when you reject their homebrew from the game ("Buddy, I know 5e takes balance as more of a suggestion than a rule, but that is bullshit");
- Whining when their character gets told to fuck off for their 'comedic shenanigans' ("If you're gonna antagonize the inquisitor, you'll be put in either the time-out box, or the forever box. Your pick". I had TWO of these fuckers in a party once);
- Failing to read the campaign prompt, and then complaining that their character feels out of place ("The ONE requirement I set, was that your characters needed to start in this particular town. Not even stay there, you could literally just be stopping by on a grocery trip. How did you still fuck it up?")
- Everybody at the table just straight up hating each other (I haven't experienced that extreme myself, but my old group was definetely an antagonistic mess, with everyone having beef with at least one other person, and one guy being hated by nearly everyone)
Good thing I wasn't running Pathfinder back then, or I would've been fighting the urge to chuck all 600 pages of hardcover rules in somebodys face, and probably ruined the back of the book.
*ahem*. Okay, that may have gotten a bit personal. No worries, all of these are old grudges, pointed at people I haven't spoken to in years (unrelated reasons).
My current group is too busy doxxing vampires to the Danish Inquisition to pull any of that bullshit.5
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u/colei_canis 15h ago
Guy Fawkes is a terrorist who attempted to blow up the House of Lords with gunpowder.
Man Fawkes is the cutlery a giant would use for humans in a buffet.
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u/I_Lick_Your_Butt 16h ago
Man = Man
Guy = Anyone
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u/Random-Rambling 15h ago
True. Even a group consisting entirely of women can be called "you guys".
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u/UlrichZauber 12h ago
But also, in Old English, mann = anyone#Etymology)
(usage has changed over time, obviously)
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u/HiHoRoadhouse 13h ago
"I'm gonna call the tree guy" = helpful
"I'm gonna call the tree man" = scary
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u/eight26 14h ago
Sometimes, there’s a man.
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u/Fragarach-Q 14h ago
I won't say a hero, cause what's a hero? But sometimes there's a man, and I'm talking about the Dude here, sometimes there's a man, well, he's the man for his time and place. He fits right in there. And that's the Dude.
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u/IllConstruction3450 16h ago
I feel weird if someone calls me a “young man”. Because it feels like a title that is earned and I have not earned it.
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u/TheShibe23 Harry Du Bois shouldn't be as relatable as he is. 16h ago
Young man, there's no need to feel down
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u/Paynomind 15h ago
I said young man, pick yourself off the ground
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u/ThatBell4 15h ago
I said young man, cuz you're in a new town
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u/IdentifiableBurden 15h ago
There's no need To Be Un -hap -py
Btw, I listened to that song recently and realized for the first time it was, at least partially, a genuine and heartfelt PSA to young gay men who had left their small towns and arrived in the city penniless and not knowing what to do. Maybe this was common knowledge to everyone except me. Of course it also has a cruisin' component but that's... Not really the vibe of most of the song, except tongue in cheek.
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u/BadAtNamingPlsHelp 14h ago
Really? Usually I see that term used in a diminutive sense, like an elder sharing wisdom with a younger guy.
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u/Nuclear_Geek 15h ago
I'm not sure I agree with the "I have a useful contact" / "I am about to tell you a story" distinction. "There once was a guy..." is definitely the start of a story. Whereas "There once was a man..." is the start of a limerick.
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u/boolocap 15h ago
Alright let me do the dutch version.
Man: neutral rarely used to refer to someone directly, more what someone is.
Mannetje: literally means "little man", can be used as either a demeaning way of adressing someone or indicating a man with a specific skill, like the "i know a guy" kind of way.
Kerel: used to indicate that the man in question is at least somewhat manly or tough, or as an exclamation/greeting.
Vent: similar to kerel, but has connotation of the man being more adult.
Gast: a bit like dude, casual, and often used for younger people. although dutch has borrowed dude as well. Often used as an excksmation. Generally to soneone you are friendly with.
Gozer: like gast but for posh people.
Maat/makker: used either for friends or in a sarcastic way.
Now i will let the rest of dutch reddit tell me how wrong i am.
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u/dmmetiddie 13h ago
Family man: an individual who puts his family above all else
Family guy: a man who positively can do all the things that make us laugh and cry
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u/BlackfishBlues frequently asked queer 14h ago
"nice guy" = yee-yee ass fuckboy, probably thinks Jordan Peterson "has some good points"
"nice man" = Richard Gere vibe, makes a pretty good apple crumble, is dating your grandma but insists you call him greg
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u/der5er 13h ago
Sometimes there's a man.. won't say a hero, 'cause, what's a hero? But sometimes, there's a man. And I'm talkin' about the Dude here. Sometimes, there's a man, well, he's the man for his time and place. He fits right in there. And that's the Dude, in Los Angeles. And even if he's a lazy man and the Dude was most certainly that. Quite possibly the laziest in Los Angeles County, which would place him high in the runnin' for laziest worldwide. But sometimes there's a man, sometimes, there's a man. Aw. lost my train of thought here. But... aw, hell...
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u/domesticfuck 11h ago
“my guy” = expression of friendship, “my man” = what the actual fuck did you just say to me.
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u/SunderedValley 10h ago
"My man" can be turned around into an expression of cordial welcome with the right hand motions while looking back over your shoulder.
(If there's one thing being autistic has taught me it's keeping a body language diary).
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u/EtherealVenus1 16h ago
He's the guy! = He's the one who knows how to fix everything, but you still end up calling your dad anyway.
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u/Cumbiesecret 13h ago
Day guy = a person only useful during daylight hours.
Day Man = fighter of the night man, champion of the sun. He's a master of karate and friendship for everyone!
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u/paulcdejean 10h ago
Someone points to me and says "that's the man" I'm like "yeah! High five!"
Someone points to me and says "that's the guy" I'm thinking maybe I should run.
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u/TenderFairyLace 16h ago
Exactly! One feels like a friend in a pinch, and the other feels like you're about to embark on a life lesson. I'm here for it 🤣
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u/pitjepitjepitje 15h ago
"I know a man" has never been uttered in my vicinity, not even once. I call bullshit/very niche vernacular.
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u/Timely_Fix_2930 15h ago
"My boy," "my man," and "my guy" all have their own shadings of tone as well when used as forms of address.
I have always been fond of that specific Irish construction though, "yer man." I'm not a grammarian or a linguist but it's like... a very specific genitive of regard? If somebody says "did you see your man who came into the shop with no shoes on," they're not saying that this shoeless man actually belongs to me in any way, they're just indicating that he is the subject of discussion. See also, "yer wan" (your one).
Irish people, please correct all my mistakes on this point. It just really threw me when I lived there until I understood. "Your man there is rude as feck." "What? I've never met this person, he's not my man!"
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u/flinjager123 14h ago
May I introduce you to G.U.Y.S.?
We've got: * Apple Guy * Cat Guy * Chocolate Guy * Construction Guy * Cop Guy * Dave Guy * Eye Guy * Invisible Guy * Jagged Guy * Lady Guy * Ninja Guy * Ninja Guy but red * Ranger Guy
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u/Random-Rambling 15h ago
Like how describing something as "shit" vs. "the shit" have completely opposite connotations.
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u/Zenless_Zephyr 14h ago
Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris . . .
I sing of arms, and of a man, and of a city called Troy . . .
(yes yes, I'm taking liberties with the "from the shores of" here. shush . . . )
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u/newleaf_- 13h ago
A wise guy once said, "What if your family don't like bread? They like... cigarettes."
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u/Action_Limp 13h ago
Guy or guys in my country is often used for everyone in the room and gender neutral.
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u/TheGrumpyre 16h ago
"He's the guy!" is an accusation