Comments | foolishfire: New words

foolishfire

New words

Feb 12, 2010 15:07

Someone (you know who you are) just asked for my address. And qualified which he wanted by saying "Meatspace, of course." Wow. My living space has never seemed so...dirty. Or maybe I'm dirty, being said meat ( Read more... )

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Comments 17

djcrowley February 12 2010, 20:12:09 UTC

I guess you've never heard me grumbling about having to go to a brick and mortar store to buy something, and having to "interface in meatspace" to conduct my commerce.

"shiv" and "shank" could just come down to regionalism though. ;)

nomadmwe February 12 2010, 20:16:30 UTC

I think that "shanked" implies more of a prison setting, so "shiv" was totally the context-appropriate word.

HOORAY MY ENGLISH MAJOR WAS USEFUL TODAY!

noradannan February 12 2010, 20:51:47 UTC

See, for me it's the opposite. Shiving someone implies more of a prison setting to me than shanking someone. How odd.

nomadmwe February 12 2010, 21:00:18 UTC

Wonky.

I think I don't have a prison implication for shiv because for a bunch of my friends, it's become the general go-to word for stabbination.

Of course, now all I can think of is the term "prison shiv" so hey, whaddya know.

noradannan February 12 2010, 21:16:41 UTC

See, "Shank" is our go-to stabbing word. In fact, without having read this, Mechaskwid just asked me about ten minutes ago if I was going to shank anyone at Madrigal this weekend (of course not! Join the Love Web!)

...what does it say that each of our groups of friends has a go-to word for "stabbing"?

Thread 8

kelglitter February 12 2010, 22:33:25 UTC

Ok, so you said that, and I totally thought of the verb "gak" - as in "You playing so and so tonight?," "Naw, I got gakked." But then I went to go look it up (I was unsure as to whether it has a 'c' or not and wanted to check) and found it...doesn't exist. Am I imagining words now?

foolishfire February 12 2010, 22:42:26 UTC

Well I mean, it might not be in Webster's dictionary, but that's definitely a "word" in the C-U gamer group. I know several people who got "gacked" as a matter of fact. ;) I think it was mostly used in terms of getting killed/character death, not just beat up (which was getting "rolled").

ornithoptercat February 13 2010, 02:44:09 UTC

That sounds about right - I think "ga(n)k" may be derived from the noise someone supposedly makes when suddenly killed.

Except that "rolled" isn't *just* that you got beat up, it's that you and your buddies were TOTALLY outclassed and were just steamroll(er)ed.

djcrowley February 12 2010, 22:48:23 UTC

I've not heard of "gakked" but my friends and I do use "ganked" a lot...

Thread 7

greymalkin42 February 13 2010, 07:20:44 UTC

My understanding is that "shiv" is a noun, the actual item with which one "shanks" (the verb) someone. According to Wikipedia (ha!) they are both used as nouns and verbs, although it seems to lean toward shiv (noun)/shank (verb).

A funny commercial that has an illustration of the difference (and understandable confusion):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5YI1Vsj_Do&feature=related

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiv_%28weapon%29