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Very important topic here...
Newbie or noobie?
I've seen other spellings as well.
Can we allow this deplorable lack of consistency to continue?
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Very important topic here...
Newbie or noobie?
I've seen other spellings as well.
Can we allow this deplorable lack of consistency to continue?
:)
What about nu-bee? Or noobee? :D
I'd spell it newbie, but thats just me! I dont really use the expression that much, I just tend to say "new guys" more than anything else.
According to Wikipedia, Newbie, or Noob:
Newbie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Only teen and pre-teen boys use noobie because it looks like boobie. :rofl2:
I use newbie for general internet use and n00b when gaming. :)
I use newbie. Noob seems more denigrating. (Maybe because it is so close to boob one meaning of which is a stupid person; fool; dunce.)
How about Rookie?
Be glad you're not a Union Ironworker apprentice. Punk is the terminology used to refer to an apprentice by journeyman ironworkers. An apprentice carrying iron is 'punkin iron'. No disrespect in the name, just what evolved from the old days. :shrug:
Hmm... Every time it's used in reference to me, it's always "stupid newbie". I didn't know there were variations... ;)
most of us here are old enough to not really care about how correct our internet shorthand is.
I say go with whatever.
We will understand what is being said.
THIS THREAD WAS STARTED IN FUN. AND, I REALLY DON'T CARE TOO MUCH HOW PEOPLE SPELL NEWBIE. BUT, TRUTHFULLY SPEAKING FROM THE HEART, IT DRIVES ME ABSOLUTELY BANANAS WHEN SOMEONE STILL TYPES EVERYTHING IN CAPS.Quote:
Originally Posted by Desdinova
WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE TELL MY SISTER-IN-LAW THAT IF SHE SENDS ME ONE MORE EMAIL ALL IN CAPS I AM GOING TO have to take it one more time I guess.
Yes. We can allow it.Quote:
Originally Posted by LarryAndro
Dull razors.... no.
understood.Quote:
Originally Posted by LarryAndro
my respoonse what also somewhat light-hearted in pointing out our collective age and how far removed we are from being on top of these things.
Cheers!
A newb is someone who's new.
A noob is someone who's new but is arrogant and thinks himself an expert.
There....problem solved since they're two different things.
It just depends on which school you went to!:D
i prefer the old l33t version, n00b
Isn't it 1337 ?
In my experience the original term was "Newb" For "New Beginner", which was a NON DEROGATORY term... It just meant someone who needed help with learning the ropes. Newb then turned to "Noob" since, when you're online trying to insult someone who is, in your mind, worse than you, it is easier and faster to hit a double "o" than to coordinate an "ew", which makes Noob the derogatory version of Newb. Both mean the same thing, the former just has a negative connotation.
At around the same time that "Newb" turned into an insult ("noob") on online games, it also took a similar shift on online forums, where people can take time to type. It turned into "Newbie" (Phonetically New Bee), again for New Beginner. Once again, Noobie became the more negative (connotatively) variation.
Also, along with the negative connotation, there was a more... Reasonable transition... In groups that don't aim to insult and denigrate, Newb and Newbie can be terms of endearment for a new guy who is polite and is going to receive help in the beginning, until he can stand on his own... Meanwhile, Noob and Noobie are similar beginners, But these beginners view themselves as above other beginners, and above the need for assistance... These are the guys with two or three months of experience who tell the 2-3 year old guys that, "Nuh uh, I didn't do it wrong! This Lynn guy just can't hone!!!1!!"
At least, that was my experience with it...
I need to stop living vicariously through the internet... My nerd is showing >.<
I like LX_Emergency's distinction between Newb and Noob. Seems to make sense. I personally use newbie but don't mind whatever. Though I suppose noobie (apart from being close to boobie) is also similar in spelling to nookie..
Its a made up language with many variants, could be either.Quote:
Originally Posted by LX_Emergency
But i still stick with n00b
The evolution of the words and spellings makes sense. The downside is that hundreds of SRP members have now been simultaneously offended. Of course, since I have always been referred to as a newbie, I'm in the clear.
(I might be back. Searching forum archives for 'LarryAndro' and 'noobie'.)
In his 1992 seminal work, "Zen and the Art of the Internet" Brendan P. Kehoe spells it "newbie." That was the spelling that developed among scientists and academicians long before the U.S. military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency turned the budding Internet over to private industry for further development.
Kehoe's book is available for free download at Zen and the Art of the Internet by Brendan P. Kehoe - Project Gutenberg
In another thread it was pointed out that what we here call "barber's notches" was referred to in very old razor catalogs as "hollow points." Do we uproot current tradition for the sake of political correctness? I say NAY! Embrace colloquialism!
Newbie, noob, n00b, newb -- it's all temporary! :beer1:
Namaste,
Morty -_-
I just want to interject 'doobie' into the conversation. :D Quit that 25 years ago but it rhymes and came to mind. :shrug:
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Originally Posted by JimmyHAD
I'm a noob that likes to doob and then watch boob on the toob with a little loob
Is that better?
I prefer nudies.