"You can't talk to me that way! I don't care if you do have an RAV branch. Regardless of your Vineacity, this is not the NDC! One more CoH violation and I'm taking you to the AoD!"
Gibberish? You bet. However it is gibberish every seasoned viner can comprehend. In the course of one short year (and change), the Newsvine community has developed the beginnings of its own shorthand, terminology and slang. This is an inevitable, organic byproduct of any close-knit community communicated with itself.
Well, organic processes are slow and boring. Rather than let the random natural forces of etymology dictate our terminology, what say we take charge of our fate and start coming up with our own lingo?
Behold the Advent of Vinespeak!
Yes, here is your opportunity to immortalize yourself by inventing a Vinespeak term or phrase that will hopefully catch on....bewildering countless future generations of n00bs!
Here's a few suggestions:
Tanged (verb): To have a comment deleted by NV staff due to CoH violation or blatant liberal bias: "All I said was that we should breed mutant, scorpion-tailed hogs and drop them on Iran and my comment got Tanged!
Phaexit (noun): Any article declaring that one has "had it" with NV and is leaving for good, but especially the second, third or fourth article stating this. Hint for n00bs: these are great for votes and comments.
Jacobseeding (verb):Completely dominating all pages of NV by posting 20+ times a day: "I stayed up three days straight Jacobseeding and now I'm top of the Leaderboard!"
Ansabity (noun): Much worse than insanity... the sort of aggressive silliness that is guaranteed to sabotage and derail any serious discussion: "Please stop all this Ansabity in my column or I'll have you Tanged!"
Anyway, my brain is still decompressing from Saturday's NDC (look it up, n00bs!) so I'm sure the rest of you can come up with much better examples. Make me proud!



