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Wilhelm Neumann
Runs with Crayons
Join date: 20 Apr 2006
Posts: 2,204
06-16-2007 11:13
A List of some of the most over used and misused words/phrases in SL

I actually have had this list around for awhile now about a month as I stick words that have become warped due to overuse/misuse etc and the meanins over time change.

Some words are just used a whole heck of a lot and I see them everyday and now they have become part of vocabulary when they weren't before like "flexi prim" lol

eg: Linden now has taken on a whole new meaning of its own


Some of these words originated in SL or have had their meaning change in SL or just are getting used a whole lot and maybe noticed

Anyhow I decided to post my growing list I can't think of any others now I just added broadly offensive because it seems to be used a whole lot lately and I have no idea if its being misused yet just overused.

Perhaps a boring exercise for some but this is how language evolves over time meaning change and new words get invented eg: borked (not sure if i should have that on my list but its appearing more and more often)

Rez
Prim
Flexi
Freedom
Rights
Lag
Blacklist
Scam
copyright
Illegal
Rape
Ageplay
Grief/Griefer
TOS (okay that's not actually a word but rather an abbreviation for several words)
Linden (err take your pick the "person" the street or the currency)
Land (we aint got no land its a bunch of cpu's on computers sitting in a pile in some networked cooled warehouse somewhere)
Abuse
Bot (its not misused just over used)

"broadly offensive" new to the list!



p.s. yes I know this isn't nearly as fun as the thread were you can win lindens but to me its fun (yes I am strange and I think wayyy to much .. :P)
Mily Sartre
Registered User
Join date: 5 Oct 2005
Posts: 150
06-16-2007 11:17
How can you forget " AR" ?
It's being broadly used by "broadly offended" people

/me steals your blue crayon and goes to her corner with a coloring book
Kitty Barnett
Registered User
Join date: 10 May 2006
Posts: 5,586
06-16-2007 12:00
Somehow you missed "resolved" and "fixed" on the "commonly misused" words list :p.
Chris Norse
Loud Arrogant Redneck
Join date: 1 Oct 2006
Posts: 5,735
06-16-2007 12:36
You forgot one of the most widely used meanings for Linden. haven't you ever had a noob come up and say "Wanna Linden?"
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