defining elite?

[muzzi]

Im not sure if defining is the right word. but anyway..

yeah, at school me and my nerd friends call all the homie poons leet.... hard to believe at 17 people still think they are leet..

anyway, i dont know why i figured that was worth noteing.. but yeah..

do you have a different meaning for elite or any other words?

oh, also, i called people coons, but i nearly got into **** for it with these *nice* people who threatened to injure me cause i called them a coon [they where black] but im not racist, i just use the word cause it sounds cool, so i invented poon.. a non racist version of coon..

so yeah, i call everyone poon.. and ridge, my friend invented that.. if somehing is ridgy didgy then its cool..

dont know why that was worth noting either, oh well..

yeah, so know you understand the muzzi terminology...

so there..

i bet you are pissed now i wasted your time.. haha poon!

im in the wierdest mood.. and you need to know about it.

[muzzi]

also, i think these forums are cool.

and the way the posts dont count in the chit chat room is emensly cool..

stops the postcount++; type thing that happens everywhere else..

[muzzi]

but whats not cool, is when i post, hardly anyone is awake..

farken australia...

[HarryW]

Freak.

[Arbiter]

Muzzi,

What are you dribbling on about?

[muzzi]

hahaah, im deeply offended.. j/k

i dunno, i was in a wierd mood..

[muzzi]

oh,

feel free to delete / lock this thread mods..

[Behemoth]

I'd heard the word 'poon' to mean both intercourse and vagina. I suppose its a corruption of 'harpoon' as in 'to spear'.

Be careful what you say to people. It may cause offence.

[muzzi]

nooooo

my carefully crafted words has an actual meaning..
hmm...

boon?
spoon?
goon?
woon?
foon

simtink like dat

[denniswrenn]

poon....

[chenko]

Originally posted by denniswrenn
poon....

No D! stay away....OKAY!!!!

[CiberTHuG]

Muzzi, as to your original question...

My friends, my circles, myself (and probably Emmanuel Goldstein) consider those who are elite (leet, 733t, 733t d00dz) to be wannabes, or script kiddies. Sorry. We often lump the warez clichés in there, too, since they are rife with wannabes.

I always think of it like hopeless romantics. You are, or you aren't. But if you proclaim that you are, obviously you aren't. A hopeless romantic is truely oblivious to his hopelessness. He doesn't know. The rest of us may aspire.

The truely elite know enough to know how much is out there that they don't know.

I personally am not elite. At least I don't think so. I consider VB very anti-elite. But that is another story.

Aside from that, I'm not a big fan of making up slang. I don't mind slang, but it has to have some reason. Cop for example. I understand Cop. I know where that term came from. It doesn't bother me. It doesn't apply in America anymore, but I don't mind using it.

Are Aussie police bronze or brass or whatever?

[SurfDemon]

Yeah, I tried to make up some slang once. But when I called the the Judge a Funking Wankster somehow he managed to understand what I meant and locked me up for contempt of court.

The Bastrade.

SD

[CiberTHuG]

What a 1user.

[SurfDemon]

Yeah, and he apparently he didn't much care for me calling his wife a a stupid crunt.

SD

[jim mcnamara]

English is really a cluster of very closely related languages -
not my quote - one of my linguist colleagues quotes.

Inoffensive words here in the US may not be quite so tame in Britain, Fanny is an example. Refers to different anatomical structures.

The problem with this board is that everyone is using English and ther are frequent disconnects. Not necessarily on the 'fanny' level either. My oldest kid grew up speaking Navajo, younger ones understand Keres. Talk about disconnects - try English with a completely non-Western person who learned English at age 10, but you think is 'American'. Not. You get some weird things.

It's easy to insult somebody unintentionally, in a forum like this.
I generally ignore almost everything, to the point where I give a lot of bad off-the-point answers, I'm afraid.

Elite is where you take your dry-cleaning, didnja know?

[Behemoth]

E-Lite is ecstasy for dieters...

[Jeff_1]

Does anyone here speaking Spanglish??

Chale homie

[CiberTHuG]

Okay, this is something I don't understand. Jim got me in this train of though. And he is right, English has been such a poor little bastard language. It is technically a Germanic language, but with William the Conqueror (Whoohooo!) and frequent following wars with France, it has very heavy Romantic influences. And ofcourse, American English is different from Her Majesty's Own.

Anyway... what I don't understand is why do they smile and mumble and nod a lot?

Let me explain that. I don't know if this is the case anywhere else in the world, and I know it is not the predominating case here in North Carolina, but there is a large minority (4 in 10?) of Arabian, Asian, or Central and Latin American Nationals or immigrants who will smile a lot, and mumble, and nod when they are talking to the locals and I don't understand why that is. I find it is only in the older people, people for whom English is very obviously a second language, and possibly a new one at that. And I wonder... are they intimidated by something? By someone? I'm not a big fella. I'm not intimidating. Is English that intimidating? Is America? Is North Carolina?

They act very uneasy and nervous. The laughing is not a joyful laugh, so much as nervous one. And the nodding keeps them from making a lot of eye contact.

I think to myself, what if I was overseas. J'ai etudié français. What if I was in France, or Côte d'Ivorie? Would I act the same way? Doubtfully. If I don't, is it in part due to the fact that I am American? Do we really intimidate the rest of the world so much so, and have no fear ourselves? I think if I went to an old-school society like China, I would try to be mindful and respectful of the customs there, but I wouldn't do so at a loss of identity. I'm sorry if it may be wrong to make eye contact. I'm gonna.

Anyway... it is the cause of some miscommunication between me and some people I've worked with as I try to figure out why these nodding, smiling, mumbling people are so edgy. If it is merely massive cultural differences, well... guess there is nothing I can do but explain everything two or three times and smile when they think they've made a joke. I can't help but feel like I'm talking to an energetic four year old. I wonder if they feel the same way.

And now that I think about it some more... they seem to use English well. Perhaps they lack the confidence in the language.

Something else I was just thinking of. People around here get on me when I let my Southern accent show through my French, but they all think it is sexy when ze French accent shows thru ze English.

I don't get it.

I should get back to work.

[Jeff_1]

Cyberthug: I know what you are talking about..the only difference is that where i live ( los angeles ) it isnt just the older people that do the nodding and such..but the young people as well...

I notice this alot when my father talks to Latin American Nationals or immigrants ( he has a heavy southern accent )..maybe it is that they just dont understand english enough ??