Hi
We all know how to "teleport home" but how do you call this "home?" Is it a "home land" (sounds weird), a "home parcel", a "home site"? "Home build"? (There are places with no build at all.) When a company like CNN builds its presence on only a part of an island, it's not a "home island" but what is it then?
The word "home page" (collection of text and other content stored on a piece of server space) was coined pretty early, and this word was even introduced to non-english languages (as a matter of fact, in some languages there is no other word for that). But how do you call the piece of 3d space you own or rent, design, use and take care of? Any suggestions? I like "home space" though.
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Monalisa Robbiani
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Jessica Elytis
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11-13-2007 16:46
"Home"
Cause I treat it like my RL home. I respect other homes the same as I want mine respected. I don't use ban lines, or security systems (Unless working on stuff), but rude people are shown the way out via my boot up thier arse. *shrugs* My SL Home is where I spend time with friends, work on projects, or just chill and listen to music while looking through Search or new notecard manuals, or jsut while I'm trying to figure out just wtf LL was thinking when they did some new "feature" and how to work around it lol. As each of us treat our SL Homes differently, just like we do our RL Homes, I think "Home" pretty well sums it up. ~Jessy _____________________
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Colette Meiji
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11-13-2007 16:47
"The place where I put my stuff"
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foehn Breed
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11-13-2007 17:03
Glorified dressing rm
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11-13-2007 17:04
My neck of the woods
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Fatbottomedgirl Barbosa
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11-13-2007 19:28
I call my pixel paddock, home.
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OneBeautiful Jewell
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11-13-2007 22:42
Feels like a good safe place to go to, after I long hard night in SL~
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11-14-2007 01:54
hee, my "home" location is an empty governor linden sim
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Bradley Bracken
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11-14-2007 01:56
I call it home cause that's what it is.
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Pratyeka Muromachi
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11-14-2007 02:29
Hi We all know how to "teleport home" but how do you call this "home?" Is it a "home land" (sounds weird), a "home parcel", a "home site"? "Home build"? (There are places with no build at all.) When a company like CNN builds its presence on only a part of an island, it's not a "home island" but what is it then? The word "home page" (collection of text and other content stored on a piece of server space) was coined pretty early, and this word was even introduced to non-english languages (as a matter of fact, in some languages there is no other word for that). But how do you call the piece of 3d space you own or rent, design, use and take care of? Any suggestions? I like "home space" though. Origination point spawning spot Heart cavity (because home is where the heart is) virtual cradle rez loc BAM! source of pie Sweety, I swear I'll cut down on my SL time to spend more time with you... anything... _____________________
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Steve Mahfouz
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11-14-2007 02:35
Hi We all know how to "teleport home" but how do you call this "home?" Is it a "home land" (sounds weird), a "home parcel", a "home site"? "Home build"? (There are places with no build at all.) When a company like CNN builds its presence on only a part of an island, it's not a "home island" but what is it then? The word "home page" (collection of text and other content stored on a piece of server space) was coined pretty early, and this word was even introduced to non-english languages (as a matter of fact, in some languages there is no other word for that). But how do you call the piece of 3d space you own or rent, design, use and take care of? Any suggestions? I like "home space" though. Parcel is the word LL uses often to describe a section of a sim. If you are referring to the entire sim, of course the word is just sim. So your "home parcel" makes perfect sense: it is your home and it's your parcel. _____________________
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Panacea Pangaea
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11-14-2007 03:04
'Home' is also noun, and for me my home is just home sweet home
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Monalisa Robbiani
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11-14-2007 03:18
Origination point spawning spot Heart cavity (because home is where the heart is) virtual cradle rez loc BAM! source of pie Sweety, I swear I'll cut down on my SL time to spend more time with you... anything... LMAO! I like you  But... I think I don't mean the spot where you necessarely rez or "spawn". You can rez anywhere. And even if you don't rez at your home at all, it is still there, as others can see it. Think of sentences like these, and imagine you talk to someone off-world, and not necessarely about SL but about virtual worlds in general: "Yesterday I added a great couch to my _____ ". Virtual home? Home parcel? Home location? All very clumsy. "I attended a discussion about virtual worlds at CNN's ______". Home space? (It's not a sim, just a relatively small plot they got for themselves.) As you can see, the concept is similar to "home pages". |
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Sally Silvera
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11-14-2007 03:32
Think of sentences like these, and imagine you talk to someone off-world, and not necessarely about SL but about virtual worlds in general: "Yesterday I added a great couch to my _____ ". Head? Virtual home? Home parcel? Home location? All very clumsy. "I attended a discussion about virtual worlds at CNN's ______". Home space? (It's not a sim, just a relatively small plot they got for themselves.) As you can see, the concept is similar to "home pages". SL home plot... SL sim .... would work for me. _____________________
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Pratyeka Muromachi
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11-14-2007 14:36
LMAO! I like you But... I think I don't mean the spot where you necessarely rez or "spawn". You can rez anywhere. And even if you don't rez at your home at all, it is still there, as others can see it. Think of sentences like these, and imagine you talk to someone off-world, and not necessarely about SL but about virtual worlds in general: "Yesterday I added a great couch to my _____ ". Virtual home? Home parcel? Home location? All very clumsy. "I attended a discussion about virtual worlds at CNN's ______". Home space? (It's not a sim, just a relatively small plot they got for themselves.) As you can see, the concept is similar to "home pages". ok, gotcha... how about Virtual Personal Living Environment (ViPerLivEn) as in "Hi good lookin! wanna come over my ViPerLivEn for a nightcap?" _____________________
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Ceera Murakami
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11-14-2007 14:43
I just call it my home. Or my castle, since I really do have a castle that I built there.
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11-14-2007 15:09
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Darien Caldwell
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11-14-2007 15:16
i just call it 'my sim'.
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11-14-2007 15:20
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Sylvia Trilling
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11-14-2007 18:15
I favor the word parcel. I have three parcels. My first land plot I hold onto for sentimental reasons and it is rented out. My other parcels are my store, where I sell stuff, and my studio, where I make the stuff to sell. My studio is the most home-like, where I have privacy (mostly) where I spend the bulk of my time and where I can make a mess.
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KC Despres
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11-14-2007 19:58
Seems like "parcel" is already in place, but this reminds of something I would get in the mail. I think a lot of people would say "island" these days, even though they may not have the entire island. It seems like islands tend toward residential and mainlands tend toward - well, ad farms. "Plot" sounds like a place to be buried.
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Isablan Neva
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11-14-2007 20:48
I'll take "sandbox" for $200L Alex....
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Conifer Dada
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11-15-2007 01:18
How about 'virdomloc', from virtual domiciliary location? No? Oh well, never mind, I'll put me thinking cap on again!
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Monalisa Robbiani
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11-16-2007 16:26
ok, gotcha... how about Virtual Personal Living Environment (ViPerLivEn) LOL that`s nice but not all places are used for living. There are many business-only spots, and quite a few RL-based brand presences. |
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Ricky Yates
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11-16-2007 17:48
hee, my "home" location is an empty governor linden sim home location, home site, home region, home parcel, that place I end up if I try to relog to a sim that's crashed/restarting... all work Do you mean that hitting Ctrl-Shift-H takes you there? How did you manage to do that? AFAIK you need landowner or group member rights to set a new home location. Ah yes, to answer the OP question: For me it "home location". Maybe unglamorous, but to the point. |