[Ads-l] in my feels

[Nancy Friedman]

"In my feels" has been appropriated by some Christian writers:

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On Wed, Aug 14, 2024, 8:40 AM Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:

> "Feels" as a clipped form of "feelings" has been around for a while -- it
> got nominated in the 2012 ADS Word of the Year selection (in the Most
> Unnecessary category!). We covered it in the Spring 2013 installment of
> "Among the New Words" (http://bit.ly/ATNW88-1), with examples going back
> to
> 2009.
>
> As for "in my feels," the longer version with "feelings" got popular in
> 2018 when Drake released the hit single "In My Feelings" ("This shit got me
> in my feelings..."). It also appeared in other rap songs from around the
> same time, as in Juice WRLD's "Devil Horns" ("So I don't know why she got
> me up in my feelings...").
>
> Urban Dictionary has entries for "in my feelings" from 2012 ("emotional,
> thinking about stuff"), and it has "in my feels" from 2017 ("When something
> brings you deep into your emotions").
>
> --bgz
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 8:01 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/documentary-100-rotten-tomatoes-headed-202049265.html
> >
> > "A Documentary With 100% On Rotten Tomatoes Is Headed To Netflix This
> Week,
> > And The Trailer Has Me In My Feels"
> >
> > Beats me....
> >
> >
> >
>
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