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In addition, making a lot of slang available like this will encourage those who are "in the know" to use it a lot, and any newcomers to a community will have no idea what anyone in stalking about. | In addition, making a lot of slang available like this will encourage those who are "in the know" to use it a lot, and any newcomers to a community will have no idea what anyone in stalking about. | ||
| − | Very creative, yes, but no real benefit to a community in my opinion.|Source=([ | + | Very creative, yes, but no real benefit to a community in my opinion.|Source=([https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=49751#p49751 Selezen])}} |
== Links == | == Links == | ||
* [[:Category:Fiction|Fiction]] where you will find the slang used! | * [[:Category:Fiction|Fiction]] where you will find the slang used! | ||
| − | * [ | + | * [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3254 Spacer lexicon and glossary] 4 page thread from 2007 |
| − | * Original source: Disembodied: on the [ | + | * Original source: Disembodied: on the [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=49751#p49751 BB], also Selezen's critique above! (2008) |
| − | * More slang: [ | + | * More slang: [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=8296 Oolite slang] (2010) |
[[Category:Fiction| ]] | [[Category:Fiction| ]] | ||
[[Category:Lore]] | [[Category:Lore]] | ||
[[Category:Concepts]] | [[Category:Concepts]] | ||
Latest revision as of 04:26, 29 February 2024
- Abbo dabbo: "space madness"; Witchspace psychosis
- Annie: an Anaconda
- Black dog: a piratical Python
- Blues: police
- Bug: Thargoid
- C-monkey: a spacer (pilot or crewman -- usually specifically human or humanoid)
- Cobby: a Cobra (usually followed by "One" or "Three", to distinguish a Cobra Mark I or a Cobra Mark III)
- Dancing the Tionisla Two-Step: deceased
- Dock-jock/Dock jockey: station dockmaster
- Doughnut: a Torus station
- Downer: a fuel leak
- Ferdy: a Fer-de-Lance
- Fuzzball: a ship surrounded by a fuzzy electrostatic corona. Commonly associated with extensive, successive E.C.M. System use.
- Hardhead: an ECM Hardened Missile
- Iron ass: a heavily shielded ship
- Jameson: an inexperienced pilot
- Lane Art: vandalised asteroids
- Kiss the stars/kiss the sun: sunskimming
- Lollipop: a flag on a flight grid scanner
- Press space, commander: see Dancing the Tionisla Two-Step above
- Quarksman: an engineer (usually highly skilled)
- Randomius Factoria: a deity invoked in The Dark Wheel and elsewhere. The god/dess of chance/luck?
- Redline a laser: to keep firing a laser until it overheats and stops functioning
- Rock-jock/Rock jockey: an asteroid miner
- Scutter: a low-grade technician
- Slim/Slim Jim: a Cobra Rapier
- Spacer: noun, generic term for a person who lives a predominantly spacebound existence, opposite to a planetbound existence.
- Sparkler: a plasma cannon
- Squawk: distress call
- Squealer: an ECM
- Sucker: a planet-dweller
- Sunshine: Quirium
- Tagalong: any ship which uses another ship's wormhole to make a witchjump to the same destination
- Witching to Reenus: to any spacer this means a hazardous fool's errand with little reward for the considerable danger.
Critique
| As I've said before, I've never been a fan of posting lists of slang or jargon for things. In the case of slang words, slang is supposed to be mutable, and thus is ever changing, hence a list of it would be out of date very quickly.
In addition, making a lot of slang available like this will encourage those who are "in the know" to use it a lot, and any newcomers to a community will have no idea what anyone in stalking about. Very creative, yes, but no real benefit to a community in my opinion. |
| (Selezen) |
Links
- Fiction where you will find the slang used!
- Spacer lexicon and glossary 4 page thread from 2007
- Original source: Disembodied: on the BB, also Selezen's critique above! (2008)
- More slang: Oolite slang (2010)
