DO YOU SPEAK NET? newest net words

**rockiee_s** · July 8th, 2010 09:04 PM

hi guys.

these are some of the newest words on the net. some of us might have encountered already. some might not.

pag aralan natin....

LEET: better than others; abbreviation of "elite"
Come and join my leet Tsikot club.

NERF: to weaken, usually referring to software mechanics
Argh. The developers nerfed the features on this website!

PHARM: to trick people into giving up their personal details online
At last, I was able to pharm Gen. Miting's true identity.

NOOB: naive newcomer, used as an insult
Noob! Don't you know anything about Tsikot rules?

KURG: someone aggressive and annoying
The person who posts under this nick is a kurg. He'll post
anything to get attention.

WOOT: a cheer, like "yippee"
Woot! I just got my new ride!

WAREZ: software
I know where to get some bootleg warez.

FAT FINGERED: bad at typing
I may need longer time to type this because I'm so fat
fingered.

VANILLA: uninteresting, bland
That new car model is way too vanilla for me.

ZERG: to overwhelm (from the game Starcraft where the Zergs, a
race of alien monsters, are weak soldiers but attack en
masse)
That Tsikot member is totally zerging me.

BLOGSNOB: someone who responds only to blog comments by
friends.
That Tsikot moderator is a blogsnob!

Words and definition taken from the Reader's Digest June 2010 (UK Version).

Hope this is not VANILLA to all of you.

**niky** · July 8th, 2010 09:13 PM

LEET?

As in 1337?

That one is older than me!

**ghosthunter** · July 9th, 2010 01:32 AM

under which rock has the author have been to think those are "new"?

Words like LEET, NOOB, WOOT, WAREZ has been in use since the early days of the internet.

NERDS RULE!

**Negus** · July 9th, 2010 01:40 AM

is pharm same as phishing?
I don't encounter that term much anymore.

**roninblade** · July 9th, 2010 05:33 AM

WTH, d00d th15 1s 50 01d.

what have you been reading?
did you get your hands on internet for dummies recently?

**Type 100** · July 9th, 2010 09:44 AM

"Vanilla" is pretty old too.

That's programmer-speak for "unadorned, unmodified, stock or out-of-the-box." We use that at work - my current assignment revolves around Siebel where some applets are modified and some are, yes, vanilla.