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Please tell me "keeb" isn't "keyboard". Clicks link Yes, it's keyboard, but occurs only in the title. Bad, but could be worse.

yepthatsreality 5y ago
And a look at Urban Dictionary seems like a pretty recent piece of slang. Honestly I t’s not like -oard is extra lengthy syllables or there’s an industry that uses this term. It’s very cringe-y web-2.0-like name but maybe that’s hip? Why would it be “keeb” and not “keyb”. Is it pronounced liked “jeeb”?
- codetrotter 5y ago
  > Why would it be “keeb” and not “keyb”. Is it pronounced liked “jeeb”? Much as I don’t like calling it “keeb”, and therefore personally don’t call it that, writing it as “keeb” makes sense if you’re going to pronounce it that way. If it was written “keyb” then I might have read it as “key be” instead.
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- martyvis 5y ago
  I presume by only referring to it with one syllable, it also helps reducing movement of mouth parts just as the "keeb" does for hand parts.
  - YinglingLight 5y ago
    I presumed is was another example of the infantilizing of young adults today. 'Look at my cute pupper!' 'Just got dishy installed today Elon!'
    - kortex 5y ago
      It's not "infantilizing," it's linguistic mutation, and it's what languages do [0], for all manner of reasons. Text lacks intonation, plain text even more so, and internet dialect tends to evolve ways to add emphasis. In this case "pupper" is inflected to suggest endearment. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimm%27s_law https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimm%27s_law
- raynr 5y ago
  I have no evidence, but I suspect because it rhymes with, is only one letter off from, and has the same connotations vis-a-vis its subject matter as, "weeb".
thrtythreeforty 5y ago
"Keeb" has become popular shorthand/slang in the past year or two. As far as I can tell it originated in /r/MechanicalKeyboards
ghettoimp 5y ago
Ugh. Truly an abomination.

yepthatsreality 5y ago

And a look at Urban Dictionary seems like a pretty recent piece of slang. Honestly I t’s not like -oard is extra lengthy syllables or there’s an industry that uses this term. It’s very cringe-y web-2.0-like name but maybe that’s hip? Why would it be “keeb” and not “keyb”. Is it pronounced liked “jeeb”?

codetrotter 5y ago
> Why would it be “keeb” and not “keyb”. Is it pronounced liked “jeeb”? Much as I don’t like calling it “keeb”, and therefore personally don’t call it that, writing it as “keeb” makes sense if you’re going to pronounce it that way. If it was written “keyb” then I might have read it as “key be” instead.
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martyvis 5y ago
I presume by only referring to it with one syllable, it also helps reducing movement of mouth parts just as the "keeb" does for hand parts.
- YinglingLight 5y ago
  I presumed is was another example of the infantilizing of young adults today. 'Look at my cute pupper!' 'Just got dishy installed today Elon!'
  - kortex 5y ago
    It's not "infantilizing," it's linguistic mutation, and it's what languages do [0], for all manner of reasons. Text lacks intonation, plain text even more so, and internet dialect tends to evolve ways to add emphasis. In this case "pupper" is inflected to suggest endearment. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimm%27s_law https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimm%27s_law
raynr 5y ago
I have no evidence, but I suspect because it rhymes with, is only one letter off from, and has the same connotations vis-a-vis its subject matter as, "weeb".

thrtythreeforty 5y ago

"Keeb" has become popular shorthand/slang in the past year or two. As far as I can tell it originated in /r/MechanicalKeyboards

ghettoimp 5y ago

Ugh. Truly an abomination.