Fannish Vocabulary

[joyeuse13.livejournal.com]

An informal poll:

What are the most common fannish/geek vocabulary words? The stuff that we sort of expect *everyone* to know, even if they haven't seen the movie, don't work in programming, etc. I'm not interested in whole phrases or references, like "I am not left handed!" or "All your base are belong to us," but rather individual words or concepts, such as "fnord" or "soylent green," or words used in special ways, such as "slash."



anime
ansible
con
cthulhu
cylon
fanboy/girl
fannish
fen
fic
filk
fnord
the Force
frack
FTL
furries
gagh
Klingon
LARP
manga
MMORPG
rennies
RPG
slash
soylent green
squee
steampunk
tribble


Edit: I forgot to say that this is for a class assignment in intercultural communication. :)
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Comments

[twinklebat.livejournal.com]

I don't know even know some of those. But some more possibilities might include:
yaoi, yuri, cosplay, crossplay, otaku, moe, shota, shoujo, kawaii, DM or GM, trade(referring to a TPB), trap(as in a convincing crossdresser often of the cosplayer variety), Caturday, meme, lurk, 42(as in the answer), zing, yoink, mech/mecha, kryptonite and some more vulgar ones like hentai, twincest, and fap.

[ninepointfivemm.livejournal.com]

I don't know a lot of those anime/manga terms. At all.

[joyeuse13.livejournal.com]

Me neither...it's interesting to see what terms are specific to different fan subgroups.

[twinklebat.livejournal.com]

On forums/boards I frequent people use them like everyone knows them. That's kind of a point I'd like to make though. Like I said I don't know several in the OP list. Yet, I've been a pretty big well rounded geek all my life.

And just a couple others: grey(as in a sort of alien) and glomp.

[ninepointfivemm.livejournal.com]

I'd say meme, trade, cosplay, lurk, and Kryptonite are pretty cross-the-board. I know what Caturday is, but if you're just a casual lolcat fan, you may not know the term.

The others seem a bit too "specialized" for cross-fandom.

[joyeuse13.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm including LOLcat, but not necessarily specialized LOLcat terms (except maybe ceiling cat, which tickles me).