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  1. Someone Probably Someone Probably

    Weird how "light out" and "lights out" have completely different meanings

    Sunday, 21-Jun-15 09:21:50 UTC from web
    1. MetalTao MetalTao

      @riley Really?

      Sunday, 21-Jun-15 09:23:30 UTC from web
      1. Someone Probably Someone Probably

        @metaltao Probably

        Sunday, 21-Jun-15 09:24:13 UTC from web
        1. MetalTao MetalTao

          @riley So, you don't know? I am confused now.

          Sunday, 21-Jun-15 09:25:04 UTC from web
          1. Someone Probably Someone Probably

            @metaltao I do?

            Sunday, 21-Jun-15 09:25:20 UTC from web
            1. MetalTao MetalTao

              @riley I don't? Hello?

              Sunday, 21-Jun-15 09:25:55 UTC from web
          2. Emily Emily

            @metaltao Okay, she's really drunk but I know what she's trying to say, let me help.

            She's talking about how "Lights out" is a thing people say to people as a way of saying "go to sleep", whereas "light out" generally means "it's light outside" as in it's day time.

            Sunday, 21-Jun-15 09:26:29 UTC from web
            1. Someone Probably Someone Probably

              @pandabear That didn't make sense

              Sunday, 21-Jun-15 09:26:56 UTC from web
            2. MetalTao MetalTao

              @pandabear OH! She is actually drunk!

              Sunday, 21-Jun-15 09:27:26 UTC from web
            3. MetalTao MetalTao

              @pandabear Though, "Light out" is usually pair with "It is light out."

              Sunday, 21-Jun-15 09:28:45 UTC from web
            4. Narwhal Narwhal

              @pandabear Oh yeah, that's another meaning for "light out". Broken colloquial English is strange, eh?

              Sunday, 21-Jun-15 09:29:25 UTC from web
      2. Narwhal Narwhal

        @metaltao In the phrase "light out" the word "light" is being used as a verb to remove the light from a source like a lantern or candle (which in retrospect seems kind of counter-intuitive, but it's actually just because it's a warped version of "turn out the lights"). In the phrase "lights out", it is often a shortened version of "knocking someone's lights out", as in knocking someone out. Though "lights out" can be used with the former meaning of "light out", so I don't know if I'd say the two have completely different meanings as much as one possess specific connotations unique from the other.

        Sunday, 21-Jun-15 09:28:34 UTC from web