02-18-2005, 10:32 AM
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#1 | | Din Älskling
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| MS guide to Computer slang
r u l33t? I thought this was funny. Note their definition of pwn3d: http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...n/kidtalk.mspx Quote:
Originally Posted by m1[r05u[|<  a slang term that means to dominate...Online video game bullies or "griefers" often use this term
| Online video game bullies. Watch out, they'll steal your lunch money.
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02-18-2005, 10:48 AM
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#2 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by esskreemr | I like the bit that explains 'pwned' came about as a typo that stuck.
I wonder how many other words commonly used today have their roots in typo mistakes or tongue slips? | |
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02-18-2005, 10:52 AM
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Originally Posted by Maeve_Mari I like the bit that explains 'pwned' came about as a typo that stuck.
I wonder how many other words commonly used today have their roots in typo mistakes or tongue slips? | Yeah, that is a good question!!11oneone | |
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02-18-2005, 11:01 AM
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| Click on the link about videogame bullies.... they have fencing photo! GIMME REP!
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02-18-2005, 11:18 AM
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#5 | | Din Älskling
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Originally Posted by Maeve_Mari I like the bit that explains 'pwned' came about as a typo that stuck.
I wonder how many other words commonly used today have their roots in typo mistakes or tongue slips? |
There are plenty of words. Take debt. The silent b was inserted by pedantics who incorrectly believed the word to have originated from the Latin word debitus. It actually came to English through French (dette). Ironically the English term debit now has different connotations than debt.
English is a Germanic language with a substantial number of latin borrowings.
Here are some interesting stats: Quote:
English tongue, expressed statistically:
Number of languages in the world: Approximately 6,800,
50 to 90% of which will be extinct in a hundred years.
Number of people around the world who can be reached
by English in some form: 1.5 billion.
Percentage of those people who learned English as a sec-
ond (or third or fourth) language: 51.5. China and India each
have more English speakers than the United States.
Number of countries or territories in which English has
official status: 87.
Percentage of the world's English speakers who live in the
largest English-speaking country, the United States: 20.
Percentage of world English that is American English: 66.
Percentage of world English that is British English: 16.
Percentage of students in the European Union studying
English: 83.
Percentage of people in the European Union who are flu-
ent in English: 75.
Percentage of non-native speakers around the world who
are fluent in English: 25.
Percentage of all books in the world printed in English:
50.
Percentage of international telephone calls made in
English: 52.
Percentage of radio programs worldwide broadcast in
English: 60.
Percentage of global box office from films in English: 63.
Percentage of global e-mail in English: 68.
Percentage of international mail and telexes written and
addressed in English: 70.
Percentage of global computer text stored in English: 80.
Percentage of the 12,500 international organizations in the
world that make use of the English language: 85.
Percentage of those international organizations that use
English exclusively: 33.
Percentage of all English words throughout history that no
longer exist: 85.
Number of words listed in the Oxford English Dictionary,
not counting its supplements: 616,500.
Average number of words added to English each year:
1,000.
Number of words in the largest dictionaries of German,
the world’s second largest language: 185,000.
Number of words in the largest dictionaries of Russian,
the world’s third largest language: 130,000.
Number of words in the largest dictionaries for French
and Spanish, tied for the world’s fourth largest language:
100,000.
Borrowed words in English versus native (Anglo Saxon)
words, expressed as a ratio: 3:1.
Number of borrowed languages in the English vocabulary:
300.
Percentage of English words made from Latin word parts:
50.
Number of words the average English speaker actually
recognizes: 10,000-20,000.
Percentage of the average English speaker’s conversation
made up of the most frequently used 737 words: 96.
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02-18-2005, 11:23 AM
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#6 | | ǝlpoou
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| since when does fencing correllate to griefing in online games | |
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02-18-2005, 02:15 PM
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Originally Posted by noodle since when does fencing correllate to griefing in online games | Since when does nearly anything that comes up here in the Water Cooler specifically relate to anything significant at all?
When you get out of college and land that ace job at MegaCorp, you'll find that about the only thing that matters... the only activity worth any effort or discussion at all, will be what you pick up at the water cooler (or smoking sidewalk if you happen to be a smoker.)
Oh, and Fencing. | |
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02-18-2005, 11:30 PM
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Originally Posted by noodle since when does fencing correllate to griefing in online games | Yeah, that's what I was wondering. If you notice, if you click on the "griefer" link, there's a page on that, too (it's not as funny), but the picture is of phencers.
VERY funny page, though...REP POINT! | 
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02-19-2005, 01:02 AM
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| I ownz ju.
4ll ur b45e r be10n9 2 u5!!
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02-19-2005, 01:12 AM
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#10 | | Senior Member
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| Also there is the FAQ for the infamous any key.
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02-19-2005, 11:12 PM
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#11 | | No, your mom's a lemur
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| The griefer link had me laughing hysterically. :-) | |
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02-20-2005, 07:38 AM
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#12 | | Feline Groovy
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Originally Posted by C.J. Also there is the FAQ for the infamous any key. | Which brings to mind one of the many UFie strips adorning my <strike>cell</strike> cube walls at work: http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons...8&mode=classic | |
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