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Maybe there was a time in your linguistic community when those words meant that. I suggest that this is not universal. I've seen lots of people in games use "
by jholman 13y ago
Maybe there was a time in your linguistic community when those words meant that. I suggest that this is not universal. I've seen lots of people in games use "newb" in a profanity-laden attack, and I've seen people people say things like "c'mon, don't grief the noobs, pick on someone your own size".
What's the difference between "geek" and "nerd"? Ask five language communities, get five different answers. Or ten answers, if you ask the same five language communities again two years later.
When you use slang in a new speech community, you need to expect that to your listener, it probably doesn't mean what you think it means, especially in fine nuance like you're claiming exists between "newb" and "noob" (or "n00b" or "newbie" or "nooby" or "noobie" or ...)
- itsybitsycoder 13y agoMaybe not universal, but certainly very common. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newbie#Variants http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newbie#Variants
- jholman 13y agoUh. The relevant sentence of that WP article has, as its citation, a Forbes article about gamers. You take Forbes seriously, as an authority on gamer culture?
- itsybitsycoder 13y agoYou were making it sound as though this were some niche thing that only happened in my particular social group. I was simply showing that this isn't the case. It's not as though there's likely to be peer-reviewed studies on this, but here's some more links, if you'd like: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Noobs%20vs.%20Newbs&defid=4307260 http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Noobs%20vs.%2... http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Noob http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Noob http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20060823 http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20060823
- saraid216 13y agos/noob/child/g