Meaning of "way back when"

They're both the same, except the first one is pejorative, if I may say that. That is, this charge is so old that they must be crazy to bring it up.
The second one posits the duration as a good thing. Old friends are best.

I remember way back when you could buy a gallon of gas for seventeen cents.

The expression you quote sort of makes fun of people's tendenc

Thanks, Avangi !

That makes sense to me.

I meant to add that your second sentence is perhaps more commonly seen with "since." "I've known her since way back when." But there's nothing wrong with "from."

MrPernicketyHi,

1. He was indited for an old assault charge from way back when

We don't hear it, so many native speakers also leave out the c in indicted. Yours is probably a typo, but just thought I'd let you know, in case.

Philip
Yours is probably a typo, but just though I'd let you know, in case.


Thanks for letting me know. )))

In essence I learned this word the way natives do: first I heard it and remembered it, then I saw it in print, and as it usually goes in such scenarios, the version that I heard got firmly stuck in my head and now it will require some ef

I know an English-speaking native, college-educated, school-teaching woman who, in a discussion one day, pronounced epitome in three syllables: e-pi-tome. She had come across the word only in print and that day learned that it is: e-pi-to-me.

I think English is the worst language in terms of pulling these devilish tricks on its natives.[6]