[ballooney]

> When I built out an A/V and networking rack for my house

Asside: where has this american-english prediction for adding random prepositions come from? Everyone now builds ‘out’ things instead of just building them, hates ‘on’ things instead of just disliking them from the comfort of their chair, and I was today told to switch ‘up’ a config file for a tiling window manager. I don’t remember this from the 2000s.

[joeblubaugh]

“Build out” used to be a noun for the plan/process of setting up a facility like a data center. Then became a verb for that sort of process. You don’t “build out” a hose.

“Hating on” is a specific activity instead of a state of being or emotion. It’s more precisely about a temporal process.

[dotancohen]

Would one typically "hate on" something that they do not also simply "hate"?

Is the term "hating on" used to protect the person expressing hate from labeling them "a hater"?