Poll: Do you use any Geek Slang in the Real World

[Vault101]

dont know if its the same but I might use tv tropes phrases in real life because its easyer

Like Narm

 

[idodo35]

usualy just noob and does calling games/movies in theyr short version (like left 4 dead< l4d) counts?

 

[Jazzyjazz2323]

Geek Speak: Basically any terms normally used in a nerd environment or by a geeky sort of media.

Real World: The place with the Day Star, which burns your pale flesh and assaults your eyes with its great light. More broadly speaking, anywhere not considered a nerd environment.

Personally, I use [a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Firefly"]Gorram[/a] quite a bit. Also [a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ptitle6mc33q878da1"]Feth[/a], with less occasion but more variety.

Please: Let's not make this about how you would define 'geek' or 'nerd'. Just assume that when I am using them I mean whatever definition of the terms you are personally OK with.

I to use the word feth and it's almost completely replaced fuck whenever I'm speaking.

 

[iamthelizardqueen88]

Yeah all the time but my most used by far is "smurf" and all variations of it ex: smurfy, smurftacular, smurftastic, smurfness, etc etc

 

[SkyeNeko]

i just realized how un-nerdy i am.

 

[Sebenko]

I failed a spot check.

My characters never manage it, and neither do I

And over 9000. Old meme, it never dies.

 

[manaman]

I make jokes with friends, aside from that. No not really. I do know two girls that constantly make meme jokes. I found it a little annoying at first, but after a while it was actually somewhat entertaining.

i just realized how un-nerdy i am.

You are posting on a video game forum. I think that qualifies as nerdy.

 

[KwaggaDan]

Does screaming "Objection" and doing the finger point at incorrect friends count? I hope so...

 

[Palademon]

Does me using the phrase "loli harem" in casual conversation count?

 

[Keepitclean]

GEEK used INTELLIGENCE on HIGH SCHOOL BULLY

Its Super Affective

HIGH SCHOOL BULLY uses I DON'T GIVE A SHIT AND I HIT YOU

Its Super Affective

GEEK whites out and is brought to the nurses office

First decent meme in a while.

I don't really unless we are talking about something nerdy. I very rarely use "nerd" or "geek" terms in standard conversation.

And over 9000. Old meme, it never dies.

Best meme ever to not make it into the popculture.

 

[Bonino90]

I use geek slang on a daily basis , and when I'm with some of my friends that I play WoW with, and have had a few drinks , we can stumble around and talk l33t speak the whole night.

 

[babinro]

I'll reference jokes related to my nerdy hobbies of Magic and D&D from time to time. However, I only tend to when the people I'm with share in those hobbies and would get the joke.

That said I don't think I use any true geek slang, just talk about geeky things.

 

[Vykrel]

sometimes... i use references to nerdy things more than anything.

 

[VoidProphet]

Does me using the phrase "loli harem" in casual conversation count?

What kind of Fething conversations do you consider 'casual'?

 

[LadyRhian]

All the time. "For the Win!", "Epic Fail", "Noobtastic" and ROFLOL seem to be the ones I used most often. I'll often use words like "Fark", and my version of "Medic!" is "Cleric!", referencing a long ago "What's New with Phil and Dixie" strip by Phil Foglio in Dragon Magazine (it was on how to use non-gaming Christmas Presents in your games. Guy receives a copy of "Black Beauty", and at their next gaming session, he, as GM, tells a player "Oh no, you got too close to the black horse, and it has torn your throat out!" Player: "CLERIC!").

 

[Jaime_Wolf]

Failure to vary register with social setting is a common sign of autism.

(Translation: No. Nor should you. (Note: Not counting discussion among other geek friends as "the real world".).)

Also, explitives are closed-class words. You CANNOT make them sound anything but forced. A work of fiction might rarely manage it by divorcing itself enough from reality to allow for suspension of disbelief. You are not a work of fiction and it will never sound anything but silly coming from you. Also, the force of a curse is due mostly to the associated taboo. People have no taboo against "frak" or "feth".

 

[Fetzenfisch]

Only with some of my Uni-friends or co-workers, but those all got some of the nerd-genome in them. Luckily both university and my workplace dont have that strange mentality that a non-geek looking young adult cant be a cool cat and still like gaming.
Especially in university it often surprised me when i walked down a hallway, getting past a group of girls who looked like they could be talking about the newest thing out of their fashion-mags , but actually were talking about their last ICC-Raid or (theyre still who they are) were gossiping about their guildies.
Actually some kind of geek language can be used with everyone who was born 1980 or later, because to some degree they will have been grown up with videogames.