Noobs with no number.

[Gandalf2]

@Cadet was great! I was an awesome pilot whilst I was doing it! I found some random screenshot on my HD of Gandalf@Cadet (ah, the days of only having one class) with top score/points versus a load of vets. Not sure what's gone wrong since then /rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":roll:" border="0" alt="rolleyes.gif" />

Also, can we leave the BoG bashing out of this thread? Please?

[takingarms1]

QUOTE (Malicious Wraith @ Sep 21 2007, 07:28 PM) Whatever the original coinage, I use it how it is used.

Yes, the same way people use "ain't" instead of "is not" and also the same way voobs tend to copy bad habits from one another.

I'm sorry, but if you're going to try to define what it means to be a newb, a vet, and a voob, you open yourself up to criticism if you do it wrong. I still maintain that calling a 4 month-long player a voob is unnecessarily insulting.

But yeah, go take cadet. It rocks.

[Malicious Wraith]

QUOTE (takingarms1 @ Sep 24 2007, 01:03 PM) Yes, the same way people use "ain't" instead of "is not" and also the same way voobs tend to copy bad habits from one another.

I'm sorry, but if you're going to try to define what it means to be a newb, a vet, and a voob, you open yourself up to criticism if you do it wrong. I still maintain that calling a 4 month-long player a voob is unnecessarily insulting.

But yeah, go take cadet. It rocks.

That is a horrible comparison. We are talking about a community defined word here, not a misuse of slang that originated from an uneducated populace.

I hope that you know that the "Community" extends beyond the long played veteran players, even if the forum has a larger representation of them then any other group.

[Terralthra]

QUOTE (Malicious Wraith @ Sep 25 2007, 05:18 AM) That is a horrible comparison. We are talking about a community defined word here, not a misuse of slang that originated from an uneducated populace.

All words are community defined words.

'Ain't' is a contraction of "am not" and has been in continuous usage much longer than 'isn't' (from "is not"), and only fairly recently came under attack by prescriptivist usage writers in the 19th century, who rather disingenuously pretended not to know its derivation in order to make themselves seem "upper class."

[takingarms1]

prescripivist? wtf??

[Terralthra]

Prescriptivist. A trend that started in earnest in the 19th century. A bunch of dictionary writers and scholars decided that rather than describing how the language was used in their dictionaries and usage books, they would prescribe how words should be used, deciding for themselves what words sounded good or bad, vulgar or refined, etc. It is because of them that the word vulgar ('lower-class') came to mean 'dirty, lewd, crass.' These are also the idiots that propagated such stupid rules as banning the split infinitive.

The fact that 'ain't' was used in the 15th century, the 19th century, and today, despite the efforts of pretentious dictionary writers who think they know best about what words are "correct," goes to show that once again, the final arbiter of language is the community which uses it, not any one person.

[Jagnara]

ahhh yes, the good ol' allegiance lexicon.

[takingarms1]

QUOTE A bunch of dictionary writers and scholars decided that rather than describing how the language was used in their dictionaries and usage books, they would prescribe how words should be used, deciding for themselves what words sounded good or bad, vulgar or refined, etc. It is because of them that the word vulgar ('lower-class') came to mean 'dirty, lewd, crass.' These are also the idiots that propagated such stupid rules as banning the split infinitive.[/quote]

Well, that ain't cool. Sound like they just wanted to really make life difficult for the rest of us.

:-D




And voob is still an insult...

[Zamargo]

sorry just want to see if my new signature works

[ImmortalZ]

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