Accronyms & actions

First off... Hi everyone! Chase here, I'm the new guy in SL, 5, maybe 6 days old. Anyway, love the World and great forums, very informative. On to my question...

Where can I find a list of SL specific accronyms or actions and what they mean and/or examples of their use?

AV - Avatar, or character, figured that one out quick.
PRIM - No clue
BUILD - no idea, build what?
REZ - when you or something loads into view I'm guessing.
CAMPING - ??
HUNT - ?
GRID - ?
SKYBOX - ?
ADULT - ?
MATURE - ?


Well anyway, there's a bunch more that I have seen when someone talks outloud in local chat and I just pretend I know what they're saying... If there's a website that someone can link that offers a type of... index of sorts, that would rock.

Thanks,

Check out something called NCI inworld, they have *exactly* what you are looking for, and a lot more.

Carl Metropolitan's profile might be a good way to find some links to all of that; he runs it more or less.

Have fun!

Here are a couple of links that might help too:

http://secondedition.wordpress.com/sl-glossary/

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Glossary

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Aes

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Glossary

The official glossery of second life.

Edit: Aeslyn gets it by a few seconds lol

Perfect, thanks.

Oh, and one more question...

What is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow? Thanks.

By the way, it strikes me that you may have been looking for existing lists of these terms, and you probably wouldn't have found them if you were entering accronym into a search engine, since the word is actually acronym.

Pep (That they are not actually acronyms in the main is neither here nor there. )

PS The air speed velocity of an unladen swallow is slightly more than a laden one.

Welcome to the forums, and to SL, Chase!

Would that be an African swallow or a European swallow?

Regardless, 42. Always.

You're entirely welcome.

@ Dante - ner ner

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Aes

African or European?

Faster than Katheryne anyway, it seems.

Pep (Is there an echo in here?)

Thanks for pointing out my lack of spell check abilities. Nice job.

Everyone else, thanks for the warm welcome, and yes, African or European. And by the way, that SL Wiki is excellent. Thanks again. Cheers.

Incorrect?

Pep (Take off 'In' and add 'ly')

African or European, and can it carry a coconut to England?

I thought it was blue. No wait, green arrrrgggghhh!

Funny you should ask. We have been trying to get the definitions from LL (Linden Lab) for a few weeks now.


I don't know if it is in one of the glossaries listed since "Adult" is fairly new. Originally we had PG areas and Mature areas. PG was no nudity, no violence, no coarse language. Mature was everything else. Now they are breaking mature into "Adult" and "Mature." Adult being sex clubs, photographic sexual nudity and graphic violence. If you want to take the PG metaphor further, the Adult areas will be NC17.

Here is where you will find the answer to that question

http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/

According to LL (that is Linden Lab, the company that owns SL), Adult means "adult" and Mature means "mature".

Gee Lil, you broke down those definitions really good

I have been studying the LL info on the topic.

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

I don't know.

ahhhhhhhhhhhhh....................

For others reading this -

Avatar is your representation in Second Life. It is also sometimes something you can buy and wear. Generally means 'who you are' though.

Prim is a building block within Second Life. Stands for primitive object. If you build something a prim is like the brick you can reshape into a flat board, a round sphere, a triangle, etc. and like Legos or Lincoln Logs eventually come up with a building or something.

Camping - your avatar sits on a chair (usually) and by staying there, earns a pittance over a very slow amount of time.

Hunt - You teleport (go) to various locations in search of a prize. Usually it's within a box or object of a certain like appearance. For instance, a magnifying glass during the recent Discovery hunt. It is a way for stores to promote their locations and products.

Grid - I'm not completely sure on this myself but it's basically the entire Second Life.

Skybox - A home in the sky. People do this for more privacy sometimes and other times, to use the land below for other things. Often shaped like a shoebox.

Adult - the new definition is what Mature used to be. Things you wouldn't want to do on the front page of the New York Times.

Mature - now means (as far as I understand the latest definition) cartoon nudity in public is okay on Mature land. "Adult" actions are okay within your own home but not okay to invite the public or to advertise or do openly/in public. Behind closed doors only. Privately only. Photographs of nudity and such as that are not okay in public either. Extreme violence is no longer okay on Mature parcels. Basically this is PG-13 or R rated. Adult is X or XXX.

Did you think of any more?

TP is teleport (click to go somewhere instantly)

LM is landmark (a sort of bookmark to a location in Second Life)

The Grid is the set of servers and back-end databases that allow you to (a) log in, (b) connect to a map region, and (c) feed you all the bits of data (inventory list, prim shapes, textures, animations, position updates, etc.) so that your viewer (the program you downloaded to your PC) can display the 3D world, and so you can interact with it.

At any time you are normally connected to one server. The server runs multiple copies of a "simulator" program (sim for short). Each copy simulates one map region on the grid. It keeps track of all the stuff located in that map region, including avatars, and communicates with each player, so that we can see each other, interact with each other and objects, etc.

There are more than one grid: The main one most people connect to, known as Agni, the Beta grid, Aditi, the teen grid (for people 13-17 years old), and various development grids internal to Linden Lab.

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Very recently, they created a new maturity rating, Adult, for map regions, along with the Mature and PG that existed before. These are intended to control what kind of activity happens in a region. Exactly how strict the new ratings will be applied is not yet known but the definitions are here:

https://support.secondlife.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=4417&task=knowledge&questionID=6010
https://support.secondlife.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=4417&task=knowledge&questionID=6010

And always remember, Noobie Chase, that over it all, remaining mostly unseen but known to us via their Ineffable Powers, rule the mysterious forces of the godlike M and his various Under-Lindens.

They graciously allow us to send up our pleas and offerings in the forums and blog, occasionally acknowledging but mainly ignoring them in their unfathomable and mysterious ways.

Oh Noobie Chase, you'd hardly believe it. It's all so... so...

Ineffable.

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And NCI's "Big Damn Glossary" (which is also available inworld):

http://blog.nci-sl.org/?p=707