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Do you speak jive?

dave6660dave6660 Member UncommonPosts: 2,699
in The Pub at MMORPG.COM

Has anyone stopped playing for a minute and actually paid attention to general chat.  Aside from the spam bots and the LFG messages, what the hell are the rest of these people talking about?  I don't know if I'm just getting old and don't understand modern pop culture or street idioms have changed or what...  All I can tell is that it's english and it's not related to the game at hand.

 

“There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own.”
-- Herman Melville

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  • AntiquatedAntiquated Member RarePosts: 1,415
    Originally posted by dave6660

    Has anyone stopped playing for a minute and actually paid attention to general chat.  Aside from the spam bots and the LFG messages, what the hell are the rest of these people talking about?  I don't know if I'm just getting old and don't understand modern pop culture or street idioms have changed or what...  All I can tell is that it's english and it's not related to the game at hand.

     

    Groovy man, like far out.
  • DibdabsDibdabs Member RarePosts: 3,239
    I'm almost 60 and I have no problem.  Slang changes all the time, not just when you're old.  The slang of my childhood was not the slang of my late teens, and that wasn't the same as the slang used when I was thirty, and so on and so forth.  You have to keep up or get off the ride.  )
  • SchnizleSchnizle Member Posts: 14

    Been playing MMORPGS since 1996 and "chatting" about stuff outside the game is part of the fun.  Who really wants to just talk about the game?  I am getting old too and I don't understand all the new lingo, but I often want to chat about things outside the game. 

  • FoomerangFoomerang Member UncommonPosts: 5,628

    Originally posted by Antiquated
    Groovy man, like far out.

    That's not jive, that's hippy ;)

  • AntiquatedAntiquated Member RarePosts: 1,415
    Originally posted by Foomerang

     

    Originally posted by Antiquated
    Groovy man, like far out.

     

    That's not jive, that's hippy ;)

    Archaic enough that he can translate, you think? Or do we need to pull out the Daddy-O? Spifflicated Flapper Dames?

  • dave6660dave6660 Member UncommonPosts: 2,699
    Originally posted by Foomerang
    Originally posted by Antiquated
    Groovy man, like far out.

    That's not jive, that's hippy ;)

    Maybe Google should create translators for...

    Hippy -> English

    Gangsta -> English

    Jive -> English

    Text message shorthand -> English

     

     

    “There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own.”
    -- Herman Melville

  • donpopukidonpopuki Member Posts: 591
    Head over to 4chan if you want to stay current.
  • KyleranKyleran Member LegendaryPosts: 44,057
    Not a problem, I just ignore chat I don't understand, same as I do with foreign languages.

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  • AlBQuirkyAlBQuirky Member EpicPosts: 7,432

    Originally posted by dave6660
    Has anyone stopped playing for a minute and actually paid attention to general chat.  Aside from the spam bots and the LFG messages, what the hell are the rest of these people talking about?  I don't know if I'm just getting old and don't understand modern pop culture or street idioms have changed or what...  All I can tell is that it's english and it's not related to the game at hand.
    I've heard the late Barbara Billingsly (Beaver Clever's Mother) speaks fluent jive. Maybe she has a book on it? :D

    - Al

    Personally the only modern MMORPG trend that annoys me is the idea that MMOs need to be designed in a way to attract people who don't actually like MMOs. Which to me makes about as much sense as someone trying to figure out a way to get vegetarians to eat at their steakhouse.
    - FARGIN_WAR


  • asmkm22asmkm22 Member Posts: 1,788
    I just wish people would do their best to use proper spelling and grammar.  Kind of tired of the text speak going on everywhere.

    You make me like charity

  • donpopukidonpopuki Member Posts: 591
  • Solar_ProphetSolar_Prophet Member EpicPosts: 1,960
    Originally posted by asmkm22
    I just wish people would do their best to use proper spelling and grammar.  Kind of tired of the text speak going on everywhere.

    Ugh, tell me about it. The current generation of teenagers (as well as many older people) are too lazy these days to type out the word, 'You'.

    A decade or so ago I gave people a lot more leeway since the majority of mobile devices had the incredibly awkward and tedious alphanumeric pads, but these days most devices now have QWERTY style keyboards, and there's no excuse for it.

     

    AN' DERE AIN'T NO SUCH FING AS ENUFF DAKKA, YA GROT! Enuff'z more than ya got an' less than too much an' there ain't no such fing as too much dakka. Say dere is, and me Squiggoff'z eatin' tonight!

    We are born of the blood. Made men by the blood. Undone by the blood. Our eyes are yet to open. FEAR THE OLD BLOOD. 

    #IStandWithVic

  • iJustWantiJustWant Member Posts: 81
    ‘S’mofo thread layin’ me to da’ BONE! Jackin’ me up… tight!

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