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Maybe not universal, but certainly very common. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newbie#Variants http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newbie#Variants
by itsybitsycoder 13y ago
Maybe 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