Slang Experiment

[Shepherd]

Let's start to use a new slang word on this board and other places on the internet and see how long it takes before it goes into common usage. My suggestion is a new word for "sucks." Any suggestions?

R

[ComicBookWriter13]

I was always partial to fucknut.



"the bears suck"

"The bears fucknut! God they fucknut worse than the rams"

etc.

[Shepherd]

I was always partial to fucknut.



"the bears suck"

"The bears fucknut! God they fucknut worse than the rams"

etc.

Not bad. Doesn't fucknut already have a different meaning, though? Like a really incompotent person?

R

[Captain Sensation]

Not bad. Doesn't fucknut already have a different meaning, though? Like a really incompotent person?

R

Yes, it means idiot in one way or another.
How about Hoerdemann as a form of slang? (define your own meaning from it)

[james michael]

i suggest we replace assfuck, or ass fucker, with grady niblo...

[Shepherd]

Yes, it means idiot in one way or another.
How about Hoerdemann as a form of slang? (define your own meaning from it)

Too hard to say and spell. Probably won't stick. Needs to be short and easy to remember.

R

[Shepherd]

i suggest we replace assfuck, or ass fucker, with grady niblo...

Hmmmm, I'll take that under consideration.

R

[james michael]

Hmmmm, I'll take that under consideration.

R
gray-dee knee-blow

[Race]

Your suggestion vaccuums.

On one of the other boards I frequent, the owner used the language edit to replace all cussing with nonsensical slang. The board favorite is "amphetamine parakeet."

That's the new version of bull$#!t.

[james michael]

Your suggestion vaccuums.

On one of the other boards I frequent, the owner used the language edit to replace all cussing with nonsensical slang. The board favorite is "amphetamine parakeet."

That's the new version of bull$#!t.
...

it cleans?

[Shepherd]

...

it cleans?

No, it lacks air and doesn't allow sound to travel though it.

R

[james michael]

howzabout hoover for damn?
hoover dam?
and since damn is generally interchnagable with shit, two birds, one hoover...

or, if it must be net lingo, h00v3r...

[ComicBookWriter13]

how about for sucks, we could use Hore Demon.


man the bears hore demon! The hore demon all the time!

[james michael]

how about for sucks, we could use Hore Demon.


man the bears hore demon! The hore demon all the time!
let it go...
youll never be special...

[chess]

Let's start to use a new slang word on this board and other places on the internet and see how long it takes before it goes into common usage. My suggestion is a new word for "sucks." Any suggestions?

R

What are you "frakin'" talking about? Frak! I hate when people are vague!;)

Oh yeah... "Mega dittos" about the idea.

[Shepherd]

howzabout hoover for damn?
hoover dam?
and since damn is generally interchnagable with shit, two birds, one hoover...

or, if it must be net lingo, h00v3r...

Actually, that's not bad. That one might work. Instead of "Damn it!" just "Hoover!" Instead of "Damn you" we'll use "Hoover you." It works because not only is it a damn, it reminds me of a vacuum cleaner, which "sucks," so....yeah....

R

[Race]

There was a friend of mine back in college who would always take the name of some pagan deity in vain:

EX) Budda dammit! Oh my Zeus . . .

[Shepherd]

There was a friend of mine back in college who would always take the name of some pagan deity in vain:

EX) Budda dammit! Oh my Zeus . . .

Funny :lol:

Except the fact that neither of those deities are pagan.

R

[Race]

Funny :lol:

Except the fact that neither of those deities are pagan.

RDepends on where you're standing.

[Shepherd]

Depends on where you're standing.

Not Really (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagan)

Pagan generally refers to polytheistic "earth" religions. While Zeus could arguably fall under that term (but usually doesn't), Buddha certainly couldn't by any stretch. Now if you just mean "heathen" (which Pagan doesn't really mean)....

R

[Race]

Not Really (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagan)

Pagan generally refers to polytheistic "earth" religions. While Zeus could arguably fall under that term (but usually doesn't), Buddha certainly couldn't by any stretch. Now if you just mean "heathen" (which Pagan doesn't really mean)....

RUm, you just proved my point:


"From its earliest beginnings, Christianity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity) spread much more quickly in major urban areas (like Antioch (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antioch), Alexandria (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria), Corinth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corinth), Rome (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome)) than in the countryside (in fact, the early church was almost entirely urban), and soon the word for "country dweller" became synonymous with someone who was "not a Christian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian)," giving rise to the modern meaning of "pagan."[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagan#_note-1)

[Shepherd]

Um, you just proved my point:

That's what it DID mean, not what it DOES mean. Pagan actually refers to a specific group of people these days. Not that I really care. Use it wrong if you want.

R

[Race]

That's what it DID mean, not what it DOES mean. Pagan actually refers to a specific group of people these days. Not that I really care. Use it wrong if you want.

RI guess I misunderstood what "modern" means.

The last part of the article, the Pagan subdivisions, is what I believe you are referring to:


Pagan subdivisions coined by Isaac Bonewits (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Bonewits) [1] (http://www.neopagan.net/PaganDefs.html)

Paleo-Paganism: A retronym (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retronym) coined to contrast with "neopaganism", denoting a pagan culture that has not been disrupted by other cultures. The term applies to Hinduism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism), Shinto (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinto), pre-Migration period Germanic paganism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_paganism) as described by Tacitus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacitus), Celtic Polytheism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Polytheism) as described by Julius Caesar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar), and the Greek (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_religion) and Roman religion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_ancient_Rome).
Meso-Paganism: A group, which is, or has been, significantly influenced by monotheistic, dualistic, or nontheistic worldviews, but has been able to maintain an independence of religious practices. This group includes Native Americans and Australian Aborigine Bushmen, Viking Age (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_Age) Norse paganism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_paganism). Influences include: Freemasonry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemasonry), Rosicrucianism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosicrucianism), Theosophy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theosophy), Spiritualism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritualism), as well as Sikhism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikhism), and the many Afro-Diasporatic faiths like Haitian Vodou (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vodun), and Santería (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santer%C3%ADa).
Neo-Paganism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Paganism): An attempt by modern people to reconnect with nature, pre-Christian religions, or other nature-based spiritual paths. This definition may include reconstructive or semi-reconstructive as Ásatrú (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81satr%C3%BA) and other groups, as well as New Age (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Age) and non-reconstructive groups such as Neo-Druidism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Druidism) and Wicca (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicca)

[Shepherd]

I guess I misunderstood what "modern" means.

The last part of the article, the Pagan subdivisions, is what I believe you are referring to:



What I'm referring to is the very first line of the article, where Paganism is defined:


Paganism (from Latin paganus, meaning "a country dweller" or "civilian") is a blanket term which has come to connote a broad set of western spiritual or religious beliefs and practices of natural or polytheistic religions, as opposed to the Abrahamic monotheistic religions.

What I'm saying is Buddhism is not polytheistic, and it's not Western. It's not Pagan by any modern use of the word, but it only pagan by the older usage meaning "non-christian." To refer to a non-christian as a pagan today is pretty rude unless you're actually talking about the religions that you mentioned.

R