To me "hopped on" feels very New York coded, which the two of us saying it is normal seems like evidence for

Also she adds "do folks not actually say hopped on the bus? I say that all the time. Possibly partly because I do feel like I literally hop into those...like that would be the best descriptor for how I move from sidewalk to bus entrance"

"[it has been] bleached of deliberate irony in every day use and therefore makes sense it could be grating in the same way exhausted cashiers have to hear the same tired jokes every day"

My linguist friend says this "becomes used enough to become a habitual speech pattern stripped of its conscious irony, and in general is just very human cause we are little parrots"

I wouldn't say "hopped on a bus" but I wouldn't find it weird if someone did. Or "hop on the subway." Or "hop in a cab." It needs to be an easily available thing

What's weird is literally whipped something by hand is genuinely grueling work

This is...sort of brilliant.

The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.