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Listenever Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary

Go get some.



At 5 seconds, the guy says to the girl in his team: "Go get some."

What exactly does this guy mean?
  

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" (What does "it" mean here? " What does "some" mean here? This is apparently borrowed from street talk, because it sounds cool, but with no real understanding of what it means.

— Anonymous

  • " (What does "it" mean here?
  • " What does "some" mean here?
  • This is apparently borrowed from street talk, because it sounds cool, but with no real understanding of what it means.
  • Here, in the context, it is used to mean something like: Go beat him up.
  • But this is rather ridiculous, because it is being used out of context by people who don't understand what it means.
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This is apparently quasi-street talk, an attempt at emulating street talk, by people who have no "street cred." There are a lot of these ambiguous phrases, originally from real street talk, that have found there way, out of context, into colloquial US speech, for example:

"Be sure you bring it." (What does "it" mean here? Only a person with genuine street cred would know.)

"Ar
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Thanks, Anon. And that's interesting.

So in a nutshell are you saying that the screenwriters wrote some line in a very successful movie that they don't know a thing about? And the director and the actor went with it anyway?
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In everyday speech you might hear something like You hungry? There's some pizza on the table in the kitchen. Go get you some.
Get you some is thus sometimes used in slang to invite someone to do something like get in a fight.
You want to make something of it? You want to fight me? Come and get you some!
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Thanks, Blue Jay.
Honestly, I don't understand why you would put 'you' in there.
Also, is it possible to say 'Go get yourself some' instead of 'Go get you some' in your pizza context and/or your fighting context?
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It's colloquial speech, so it may at times be ungrammatical or contain extra words. There's no reason why yourself shouldn't be used in either context, but in the fighting context I would think you would be more likely to hear you—it's a slang phrase.
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