For an uninitiated reader, “tapping out” at least has the advantage of a pre-existing non-LW use that, even if you don’t know it, makes the phrase easily searchable.
Yes, but at the cost of being actively misleading to uninitiated readers because in its original context “tapping out” means admitting defeat, whereas a large point of the LW usage is to have a way of saying “I’m outta here, and I am explicitly not either admitting defeat or claiming victory”.
Yeah, I would favor “tapping out” if it felt more neutral to me. ‘Tapping out’, ‘bowing out’, etc. sound a little resentful/aggressive to my ear, like you’re exiting an annoying scuffle that’s beneath your time. Even the combat-ish associations are a thing I’d prefer to avoid, if possible.
For an uninitiated reader, “tapping out” at least has the advantage of a pre-existing non-LW use that, even if you don’t know it, makes the phrase easily searchable.
Yes, but at the cost of being actively misleading to uninitiated readers because in its original context “tapping out” means admitting defeat, whereas a large point of the LW usage is to have a way of saying “I’m outta here, and I am explicitly not either admitting defeat or claiming victory”.
Yeah, I would favor “tapping out” if it felt more neutral to me. ‘Tapping out’, ‘bowing out’, etc. sound a little resentful/aggressive to my ear, like you’re exiting an annoying scuffle that’s beneath your time. Even the combat-ish associations are a thing I’d prefer to avoid, if possible.
“Sorry, gotta go now.”?
Or perhaps a phrase the Koreans say “I’ll leave first.”