Vote now for your top net neologism
Ok, let's get straight down to it - below are the twenty contenders vying for the crown of El Reg top net neologism, as chosen by you, our beloved commentards readers. But before we get down and dirty with the vocab, a couple of points. Firstly, we had a lot of support for "wibble", although most reckon that's a Blackadderism. …
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I can't believe you didn't include "digilante"
Whoops1 Bye!
Mine's the one with the dunce's cap.
This electronic vote is rigged!
20 choices, but only 17 lines in the result! Where's my vote?!
Erm.
Does posting this make me a commentard asshat or a trolling twatdangle?
Chesticles
Surely any Dawn Patroller will tell you Chesticles has been used by Sarah Kennedy since before the dawn of time, and may even predate the Interweb.
Mines the one with the old tranny radio in the pocket!
Xmas coming early
OMG it's going to take at least the rest of the afternoon to give this its due consideration. Couldn't you have waited until Xmas?
Multiple choice
Damn, too many to choose from! Should have had multiple choice or "Pick up to 3"...
FAIL
I'm sure the word fail is not a new word. It should matter whether it's capitalised or not otherwise I COULD MAKE UP A WHOLE BUNCH OF NEW WORDS RIGHT NOW.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh........................ it's so difficult.
It's like trying to pick your favourite movie, or pair of underpants, or something where you have to pick your favourite something.
re: Meh
Meh is, apparently, already in a Collins dictionary.
Does that mean as it's accepted by the Great British Public it can't be part of the list as it's no longer 'street' or whatever those young whippersnappers call it nowadays.
(And it's accepted by any spell checker lurking on my machine)
So many to choose from...
I can't make up my mind! I'm glad to see the resurgence of "chesticles", I had almost forgotten that one.
P.S. This will probably not go through, if indeed the one month ban is in effect; but if it does... w00t!
er... damn it!
-dZ.
Choice Quandary
Its a pity that my chosen word has no real world application, I'm just not that likely to meet that twatdangler David Blein, as much as I would like to, just so I could address him correctly.
Oi ... twatdangler
@re: Meh
... Meh
Well..
I had no choice really but to go for twatdangle, as asshat and fucktards have been in my volcabulary for yonks, and none of the others cried out with the same originality
wot no !!1!!!11!one!!eleven!!
Waht do you mean pick One!!1!!!11!onety!eleven!!
ARGH its all to Hard....
First round should have been multiple selection, then choose one from the top five..
re: Why no asshat on the results page?
Because the "quiz" was set up by an asshat?
Luser is a NET neologism?
The Jargon File says it originated ~1975 at MIT on their ITS system, neologism maybe but not exactly a 'net' neologism. Unless you mean Usenet and the Scary Devil Monastery.
(http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/L/luser.html)
I can't believe...
... you left out "goatse".
As a noun, as a verb, even as an adjective, it has to be the original, most multi-purpose and best!
I can't believe
it's not butter.
Asshats of the world, unite!
It's Borken, not Borked
You wouldn't say 'it's broked', would you?
Such a difficult choice
I voted twice & even laughed at the dry comment when attempting to vote second time round,
perhaps you should be able to pick up to 5
& I along with b noted that it should be fanboi
So
How many of you used Wikipedia to find out what neologism meant?
@ FAIL
Fail may not be a new word, but it's a new noun, as in "Your shipment of fail has been delivered."
Meh is older
I have an old fruit bowl here depicting a bag of "MEH".
Sp?
Fanboy is not a neologism. Fanboi, on the other hand...
no wai
you didn't include:
nub (the newer version of n00b, newb etc)
nubcaeks, and any number of other 4chan-isms.
Meh, i s'pose I'm b& for a month nao.
:D
RE: Meh
You beat me to that one! I just heard the other day, disgraceful!
I voted luser just because I saw it first in the BOFH = ) (after much deliberation)
Paris, because she's the hottest icon here...
@ Aristotles slow and dimwitted horse
"favourite movie, or pair of underpants"
Is that fovourite move or favourite pair of underpants; or just to pick A pair out of a pile of them.
I mean; just close your eyes; stick your hand into the pile, and pull out a pair. how hard can that be unless you're planning on going commando?
Wait a mo'...picking a coat and heading out door.
Chesticles
That's been in common usage round here for at least thirty years. Is the net really that far behind?
I could well be wrong, but I don't think those are all net neologisms...
Fanboy I don't know about, but I thought that MILF was populalised by American Pie and chesticles is, I'm almost certain, a Viz gag (or has at least been used as one, probably in the profanisaurus). Not like it matters though, since twatdangle is clearly the best of the lot by a country mile.
Ban Me!
I can't believe you didn't include...
Right now go and ban all Anonymous Cowards
Well...
I can't believe ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H wonder why you included "Troll"? It's hardly new, been a Usenet staple for many years.
Keep feeding...
choice
Picking just one out of that list was seriously difficult.
I would've preferred to give a mark out of ten for each.
Anyway, it's pub time....
I can't believe it...
...they're all so delightfully wrong!
Twat-O-Tron tastic
How many can you fit in one sentence?
Meh, fucktard FAIL as celebutard gets pwnd attempting to impress the wikifddlers with twatdangle stunt, a fantastic turdspurt for El Reg fanboy and commentard.
W00t, MILF with great chesticles gets borked and used as asshat in porn troll??
Soo many fantastic uses :D
Thanks El Reg
Hmmm
20 entries, but only 16 listed in the results. 10 I could understand - but wait, could the results list be in hex, in which case why isn't the 'source' list 32 - but wait yet again, is this all mere wibble - see how I sneak in the word you didn't want :)
Definitions
Where are the definitions, man, the definitions ?
Come my fellow surveytards, will somebody please post the necessary.
Stoopid Asshats
I can't believe you didn't include Meanderthal.
Used to describe anyone texting or on the phone and attempting to walk/cycle/drive at the same time.
You can ban me but I'll just sneak back in with another LuserName. :-)
I can't believe . . . .
. . . you didn't include "grrrrirt"
Chesticles...
is already a word in common use by...
(eeek)
Sarah Kennedy.
It has been in use by here since approximately God's puberty.
Should it be here??
Blackadder and Wibble
I think the word used in Blackadder was 'Bibble', IIRC something to do with pinning a frog to one's shirt and saying 'Bibble' to passers-by. I don't recall 'Wibble' on Blackadder (correct me if wrong) and Wibble is by far my favourite net neologism.
Asshat!
I even have an asshat icon I use occasionally so I guess it has to get my vote.
Fucktard is no Net neologism
It's been a dependable stalwart of vigorous denunciatian for years, Twatdangle I'll give you though.
My vote's for wikifiddler, It captures web 2.0 circlejerking in all it's glory.
@David Hill
"old tranny radio"
Well, whatever next? Ancient lezzie TV ?
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