Statistics and global warming have forced us to save words. This thread is purposewise to that matter.
Just as an intelectual challange for the Backroom. A Backroom political game if you like it.
Challange:help build a common Newspeak dictionary for use in Backroom threads.
Prize: for anyone who participates
Thread is plusbackroomwise. Duckspeak you're think. And no prolefeedstuff, please!
I'll just speakwrite my first words then.All doubleplusgoodstuff shall be posted into the opening reply.
Reverting to OldSpeak:
Definitions and terms can be improved/rectified.
writepol = moderators
joywrite = trolling
textual-assault=flaming
joywriter = troll
cameldung = ********,nonsense
gahspeak = spam/flaming when applied to banned people, brilliant comments when applied to the rest of the population
joycamptour = warning
joycampsitting = suspension of the account
joycampleaving = restoring an account
joycamper = suspended account
Balloon-worthy = an award or praise with or without value (depending upon intent)
BOLLOX = THE ONE WORD
a la moed = translation from french "served with Texas" 1) a thread in which the greatness of Texas or Texans is mentioned; 2) a ridiculously over-inflated opinion of one's self or rightness of one's argument.
yebut = pronounced yeah-but. The tendency of someone to find the negative and controversial (real or imagined) in even the most positive of discussions. The result is usually thread closure and examples of most, if not all, the joycamp words from the Orgah Newspeak Dictionary.
OPummm = noun, pronounced oh-pee-um. A thread with a title that tells you nothing about the topic.
Voice of Gah!d = an argument so absurd, the poster must be listening to a voice in his head, and it ain't the voice of logic or reason.
OrgSoc = Orgah Socialism
Noforumer = Banned Orgah
Minlove = Backroom
NoTruth = "Posted as is"
NewTruth = "Altered by speakpol"
TediUS = A variation on the Godwin theme, it is the inevitable tendency of any thread to blame the United States for everything or to take a cheap shot at same for effect.
Texicitry - the tendency to always mention a certain state in one's post with utter disregard to the relevance of it to the topic being discussed.
Galloticitry - the ability to always mention a certain country in one's post and somehow make it seem relevant to the topic being discussed.
naughtigain = pronounced naw-ti-gan. 1) A noun referring to any recurring discussion or patron interaction that results in heated debate and will never yield a satisfactory result for either side. 2) A noun referring to any recurring discussion or patron interaction that results in heated debate and will never yield a satisfactory result for either side. 3) A noun referring to any recurring discussion or patron interaction that results in heated debate and will never yield a satisfactory result for either side.
Gregspeak - use of punnery
doublewrite - the paradoxal ability of making inconsistent posts, forgetting and remembering differing parts of it as the situation demands without being aware of it (I'd call this doublepost, but that's already a word in oldspeak)
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