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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread smacktard #111862 09/11/03 12:36 AM Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 104 M moss OP member OP moss member M Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 104 A smacktard ... is a lousy gamer whose actions constantly undermine the success of his team http://www.boston.com/ae/media/articles/2003/09/10/dont_be_a_smacktard_buff_your_geekspeak/ The writer says we should all buff up on this lexicon because computer gaming will replace movies as the dominant entertainment choice of the future. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: smacktard #111863 09/11/03 12:55 AM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont I guess, as a teacher, I always get a bit uptight about the use of "retard" in any context, and this is no different, but it was a good article, and brought me up to speed on some of the jargon. and I didn't have to post any naive questions! thanks, moss. formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: smacktard #111864 09/11/03 01:24 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky As in, he gets... ? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: smacktard #111865 09/11/03 09:37 AM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont no, as in smack the retard. formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: smacktard #111866 09/11/03 12:28 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Is it really? What a shame. Yes, . Smacked hard would have been so much better. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: smacktard #111867 09/11/03 01:05 PM Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,526 Virginia, USA TheFallibleFiend veteran TheFallibleFiend veteran Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,526 Virginia, USA I agree. The one that kept coming up in Yahoo literati lounges was "fucktard." I heard this term used 30 years ago - long before most people ever heard of the Internet and yet there were people in there arguing that they had actually "invented" it. I'm not offended by profanity. I'm not even offended by "offensive speech." But I'm pretty annoyed that so much of the language is repetitive and devoid of meaning. When a word means everything, it means nothing. There's some interesting stuff coming out of the MMOG Planetside - zerg, for example. The zerg is the crowd of avatars constituting the main body of the attack. Also, planetside, a "noob" is the correct jargon for "newbie." Back in Literati land, a "grammer" is a kind of cheater who uses "anagramming software" like "literati buddy" to find words from your tiles. On Undernet MIRC, in the #trivia channel, you can bet "permabanned" for even mentioning any form of the word "decode." A decoder is a program that watches the channel, learns the questions and answers, and then is used later to cheat. Lotta different ways that people have of cheating on the net. Anyway, interesting article. k Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,344 Members9,182 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV 9,182 Registered Users Who's Online Now 1 members (A C Bowden), 558 guests, and 1 robot. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 29 A C Bowden 20 LukeJavan8 2 ddrinnan 1 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 10,546 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,918 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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