Twittering, tweeting, twirting—it’s rare to see a whole new body of language appear right before your eyes. But that’s what’s happening with Twitter. We discuss the snappy new shorthand of the twitterati. Also, why do people feel compelled to say...
Is there a word for @#$%!^*)!&!, those typographical symbols standing in for profanity? There is indeed. It’s grawlix—not to be confused with jarns, quimps, nittles, lucaflects, or plewds. For more on such terms, check out Mort Walker’s Private...
Quiz Guy John Chaneski is a huge fan of comic books featuring superheroes like Superman and Spider-Man. Lo and behold, John claims he’s discovered a whole treasure trove of Heretofore Unnamed Superheroes, and invites us to guess their names. What do...
floppy n.— «Floppies, pamphlets, monthlies are terms for the monthly comics that are by publishers. It is usually used to separate them from trade books/graphic novels. Sometimes the term is used as a snobby way to put down comics that some people...
rescript n.— «Context is everything, of course. A regular feature of the Megatokyo forums are “rescripts”—the comic of the day with different text pasted in with a humorous, and often sexual twist.» —“This is not about “intellectual property”” by...
witchy poo
n.— «Andrew is a watcher, Giles is around and Willow is all RenFaire witchy poo.» —“comics bookin #1″ by passerby Kingdom of Geekitude (Canada) Apr. 11, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)