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*'''Teh''' - (definite article) - maladroit and ''intentional'' mis-spelling of "the". Imagined by its perpetrators to give a debonair, carefree impression as if one's brain works too fast for teh fingers. Its use is actually '''REALLY ANNOYING.''' <ref>"''This is really annoying!''" <small>James Bonhovant IV: "In Pursuit of Truth"; pub: ''Hodder and Stoughton'' 1856</small></ref><ref>Note: until about 14-15 hundred CE, this abomination could not have occurred as the letter '''Thorn''', or '''þorn''' (Þ, þ) was used for the 'th' sound, thus rendering such infantile amusement unpossible. ({{wpa|Thorn (letter)}})</ref>
 
*'''Teh''' - (definite article) - maladroit and ''intentional'' mis-spelling of "the". Imagined by its perpetrators to give a debonair, carefree impression as if one's brain works too fast for teh fingers. Its use is actually '''REALLY ANNOYING.''' <ref>"''This is really annoying!''" <small>James Bonhovant IV: "In Pursuit of Truth"; pub: ''Hodder and Stoughton'' 1856</small></ref><ref>Note: until about 14-15 hundred CE, this abomination could not have occurred as the letter '''Thorn''', or '''þorn''' (Þ, þ) was used for the 'th' sound, thus rendering such infantile amusement unpossible. ({{wpa|Thorn (letter)}})</ref>
 
:Origin - it's a common mistyping of "the". T and E are typed by the left hand on a Qwerty keyboard, while the H is typed by the right. The T and E are often typed by the left hand in a drumming motion before the right can get the H in between the two.
 
:Origin - it's a common mistyping of "the". T and E are typed by the left hand on a Qwerty keyboard, while the H is typed by the right. The T and E are often typed by the left hand in a drumming motion before the right can get the H in between the two.
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:Use - to absolutely get up teh back of [[User:SusanG|resident shamans]].
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*'''Tl; dr''' - Short for "too long; didn't read".  Common response to unusually long and tedious material, such as {{Kens}} pet articles on [[Conservapedia]].
 
*'''Tl; dr''' - Short for "too long; didn't read".  Common response to unusually long and tedious material, such as {{Kens}} pet articles on [[Conservapedia]].

Revision as of 06:11, 18 January 2010


Are the shibboleths of Rationalwiki confusing you? We provide you with dys lexicon to make it worse.

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A

  • ACD - (n) - Article Creation Drive.
origin - Urine extraction echo of CP's Article Creation/improvement drive
occurrence - Now known as the "Fun" namespace.
  • Ah, Vienna! - (phrase) - "Means nothing to me!"
origin - Ultravox!
origin - lost in the mists of RW1.
occurrence - frequent.
alternate spelling: "Teh Arsefly".

B

  • BohdanX (where X is a prime number) - (n) - Anyone (including Bohdan) pretending to be a sock of a user previously known as Bohdan. Normally for the purpose of annoying Bohdan, or (if it is Bohdan) to circumvent a block.
    - (v) - (without the X) to behave like Bohdan by pointless pwning. Also: to go on and on and on ... and on .... Trying to make an unfunny joke amusing by sheer weight of repetition.
  • BoN - (n) - An editor who has not joined or is not logged in, identified only by their IP address - a bunch of numbers.
Alternatives - if the grammar works better, "abunchofnumbers". (other random versions that occur: bunchofnumbers, bunchanumbers, buncho'numbers , BON, Bon, bon, bon-bon, buncho)
  • Bunchofnumbers - (n) see BoN above.
  • Bork - (v) Synonymous with the verb "break". Hence "it's borked", "you borked it you daft ****" and so on.
Origin - Probably somewhere around Urban Dictionary.
Incidence - Whenever Trent spills coffee on the server.

C

  • Curse of Ham - (n) - a racist fallacy that all non-white people have darker skin pigmenting because they are cursed.
Origin - A controversial interpretation of Genesis 9:20-27, Ham being the one whose descendants were cursed.
Incidence - Republican Faith (blog)

D

  • Deceit - (n) - a catch-all refutation and condemnation of any statistic, argument, subtlety or humour. Often prefixed by 'liberal'.
Origin - Andrew Schlafly.
Incidence - Conservapedia, Rationalwiki
  • DEMONcrat - (adj; n) - see LIEberal.
Incidence - Republican Faith (blog)

E

  • Easter Egg - (n) - common parlance for intentional or accidental hidden lulz on a website or computer program. There are whole websites devoted to them.
incidence: everywhere.
reason for inclusion: E was empty
  • Evilutionist - (n) - Another hilarious term invented by those wacky YEC guys to describe someone who thinks that the Book of Genesis is just a fairy story (although there are no faeries in the aforementioned).

F

  • Faith - (n) - All you have left, when you don't have any proof.
  • FTW - (exclamation) - abbreviation of For The Win, indicating that someone made a point utterly devastating to their opponent. Usually in the style: "Commenter XCKMD FTW". Made particularly hilarious after some random censor at Conservapedia removed it for obscenity.
  • Fnord - if you can see this, you already know.

G

  • Goat - (n) - the RW mascot. Pioneered by User:DocSock, goats are ubiquitous on RW. For example, when asked which Deathly Hallow one would have, the vast majority of respondents replied 'goat'.
Incidence - Rationalwiki
  • Godspeed!!! - (v. imp.) - either a cheery "see you later" or a devious way to say "go fuck yourself".
Incidence - Conservapedia
Origin - Andrew Schlafly's talk page, infected a few other sysops. And us.
Occasionally perverted as: God's peed (God has urinated -geddit?).
  • Goatspeed!!! (v. imp. lulz) - It had to happen.
Incidence - RationalWiki
Origin - Human, but ownership immediately transferred to Docsock/PalMD.
  • Goddidit (n) The explanation for everything.
Incidence - All over the skeptical web
Origin - Lost in the mists of internet time

H

  • Human - (n) - A common contraction of 'Human being' - this word on its own is frowned on at Conswervapædia. If you search talk pages there, you'll find out why. It really is - it was removed as an article title.
Origin - Human, a dumbass on this site.
Incidence - RationalWiki now, Conservapedia a long time ago... see "building trades"...
  • Headless Chicken Mode - (n) - A state of internal confusion and destruction.
Origin - Pioneered by "False Flag." on RationalWikiWiki.
Incidence - once every two or three weeks when all seems to be collapsing around us. It is usually abbreviated to "HCM".

I

J

  • Jebbist - (n) - a particularly nasty type of troll/vandal.
Origin: Named after Jeb Berkeley, a white racist with possible connections to m*t*p*d*a who edited RW for a (short) time.
Alternate use: Jebbite
Incidence - RationalWiki.

K

  • Kajagoogoo - (n) reference to Conservapedia sysop Karajou, usually on account of it sounding like "kangaroo".
Alternatives - Pretty much any word beginning with k that even vaguely looks or sounds like Karajou.
  • Ken - (v) - to edit in the manner of Ken Demyer; i.e. to make an inordinate number of small edits to do what should have been achieved in one, using "preview". Originally believed to be an attempt to saturate "Recent changes" and gain attention. On RationalWiki the practice is frowned upon, and if it inadvertently happens it is usually apologised for in the edit comment. One can avoid Kenning up "Recent changes" with a large number of legitimate edits by asking a bureaucrat to temporarily add you to the "bot" usergroup for the duration of your Kenning edit spree.

L

  • Lenski - refers to the Lenski Affair from Conservapedia.
  • LIEberal - (adj; n) - hilarious conflation of the words 'lie' and 'liberal'; then, just to make sure that you got the joke, they capitalised the 'lie'. D'y'see?
Incidence - Republican Faith (blog), Blogs 4 Brownback
  • Lulz - (n) - a a variation of L O L. LOL is the abbreviation for Laughing Out Loud, which, though a verb phrase, has morphed into a noun to refer to a laugh. "Lulz" is the word coined by the LJ Drama/Encyclopedia Dramatica/GNAA/Bantown bunch for audible schadenfreude.
Incidence - LJ Drama.
  • Lurk - (v) - to hang about silently with recent changes constantly refreshed, kibitzing on various talk pages. A lurker may opportunistically make a comment and then return to silent lurking while awaiting the lulz he/she hoped to create, thus becoming a troll. In general netiquette, it is recommended that someone lurk for a bit before joining in the fray at a new wiki, blog, board, forum, or mailing list, in order to get used to its local customs.
    Not to be confused with Lurker who is a lurking defender of Conservapædia.

M

  • Meh - (interjection) not translatable directly into English, "meh" indicates a grudging acceptance of the point made, with the implied comment of "so what".
  • Meta - (adj) examining the structure and conventions of something, rather than its content.
Origin - in Greek, 'meta' means 'about/after/with'. It got shunted onto the start of other words - hence 'metadata' is data about data, 'metalanguage' is language about language', and 'metafiction' is fiction that (usually in its subtext) discusses fiction. It eventually got cut off entirely, and now freely floats.
  • Moar - another word for more, with a bit more "more".
  • moonbat - (adj; n) - a left-winger, often with environmental connotations. Compare - 'moonraker', and hence connotations of head-in-the-sky thinking.
Origin - mangling the surname of the noted environmentalist George Monbiot (now, kids, repeat after me: MON-BEE-OH)
Incidence - Blogs 4 Brownback
  • Mop and Bucket - (n phrase) tools issued to sysops for cleaning up after wandals.
  • My bad - (exclamation) - oops, sorry, what I did was an eror.
As in: "You spelled 'error' incorrectly." "Oh, my bad."


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N

Origin - "I do know, with 95% certainty, what your positions are on classroom prayer and evolution. The 95% confidence level is all that science requires."
— Andrew Schlafly
Incidence - Conservapedia, Rationalwiki
  • n00b - (n.) - slang for "newbie," or new user.
Origin - Usenet
Incidence - All over the innertubes, and in "real life" as the tubes get squeezed all over it.
  • NSFW - acronym for "not safe for work" - used to warn people that some links should not be followed in certain environments. Contents may include pron, outrageous political statements or parody, bomb-making instructions, etc.
Incidence - widespread on teh innertubes.

O

  •  !!!1!@!!one! (and variations) - (excl) - an often ironic imitation of the effect of mashing the buttons around 1/! in order to convey excitement, joy, or rage, sardonic or otherwise.
Origin - Either Counterstrike, or any other situation in which people type quickly without thinking. ASchlafly also signed off with '!!!' (if not Godspeed), so it was reinforced here.
Incidence - Conservapedia, RationalWiki
  • Oh noes! - (exclamation) - wail of person who has just discovered a misfortunate event such as pwnage.
Alternatively: cry heard when someone is found out in a misdemeanor or similar acts (including 'pwnage').
  • OMG - (abbr) Oh my God. Often shouted repeatedly by excitable Americans whenever something vaguely interesting happens.

P

  • Project Whitewash - a now defunct project to expand the wiki.
See also - Article Creation Drive
  • Poe - (n.) - a persona or statement subject to Poe's Law. Also "to pull a Poe".
  • Points! - (n.) - Like the normal use, but generally seen in edit summaries, as mockery of the Conservapedia habit of having periodic "contests" with points awarded for various levels of edits (a habit that has resulted in dozens of dictionary-page articles). Often seen as some variation of "Improved, one million pointses!"
  • Psrodt - (n.) - an alternate spelling of parody. Used to get around bans of the word parody. And to be uber-1337-kewl, script kiddies!
  • Pwn - (v trans) - to behave in a childish & immature fashion by inserting rubbish into some one else's gifted prose. Almost exclusively the preoccupation of immature males. Also, "pwnage", (n.), the byproduct of pwning.
Origin: Internet gaming culture. A common typo of "own". Widely used by Human and other elderly adolescents.

Q

R

  • Ratwiki - noun - mocking corruption of "RationalWiki"
incidence - One of the dozen or so blogs Denyse O'Leary pretends is journalism.
  • R Dubya - noun - just us again.
origin: Hojimachong's Parthian shot to Andrew Schlafly.
  • ROTFLMAO - exclamation - An acronym for: Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Arse Off! A common chatroom retort, often seen in its shorter form, ROTFL.
  • RW 1.0 - fabled noun - the semi-private precursor to RationalWiki 2.0/2.1, ca. 2/07-5/07.
origin: RationalWiki 2.0
incidence: RationalWiki 2.0, 2.1
  • RW 2.0 - fabled noun - refers to RationalWiki 2.0, the current version of the site (although some might claim that it's getting close to 3.0) to differentiate how it operates now, as opposed to just being a forum to bitch and moan behind Conservapedia's back.
See also - RationalWiki:History

S

  • Seekrit - (adj.) - bastardization of "secret," to imply that something is "secret," but really not that cool at all.
Origin - RationalWiki
Incidence - Discount accusations of cabalism
  • 'sensitive man, a' - (n. phrase) - named after a CP vandal who posted the same picture of Hitler and his dog over and over, with the caption 'Hitler was a sensitive man'. Thus, saying that someone 'is a sensitive man' is a veiled accusation of them being far-right.
Origin - back in the day.
Incidence - Conservapedia
  • ! (shriek) - (exclamation point) - not significant alone but, as the number increases, demonstrates an inverse relationship with the stability of the author's mind. Five or more shrieks (!!!!!) indicate a mind under extreme stress whose possessor is about to snap.
See also - Law of exclamation
  • Smert - (adj) - also, smrat, smrt - the ironic form of smart; dumb. Lighting your hand on fire is a very smert thing to do. Conservapedia is a very smrat website.
  • Snark - (v , n) - a sarcastic or snide remark inserted into an article. Generally used in place of logic.
Origin: Portmanteau of snide and sarcasm or "snide remark", but possibly with reference to Lewis Carroll (hunting of the ...)
Incidence - Rationalwiki, Blogs 4 Brownback, Republican Faith (blog), Television Without Pity.
  • Sock - (n) - a duplicate identity, esp. on a wiki, used for perpetrating mischief and/or evading blocks. It is short for "sockpuppet".
  • Spork - (formerly n, now v) - to appropriate a piece of wikisyntax from one wiki to another. This isn't IP theft, but rather finding a way that someone has done something neat, appropriating the code, gutting it, and turning a bastardised version of it to one's own use.
Origin - from the portmanteau of spoon and fork, to form one all-purpose utensil. It then became its current meaning, which alludes to moving one thing from one place to another.
Incidence - RationalWiki, Uncyclopedia

T

  • Teh - (definite article) - maladroit and intentional mis-spelling of "the". Imagined by its perpetrators to give a debonair, carefree impression as if one's brain works too fast for teh fingers. Its use is actually REALLY ANNOYING. [1][2]
Origin - it's a common mistyping of "the". T and E are typed by the left hand on a Qwerty keyboard, while the H is typed by the right. The T and E are often typed by the left hand in a drumming motion before the right can get the H in between the two.


  • Tl; dr - Short for "too long; didn't read". Common response to unusually long and tedious material, such as Ken's pet articles on Conservapedia.
Alternatives - TLDR, tldr, or the absence of any response whatsoever.
  • TK - (abbr) - Shortened from 'Team Killer', a common acronym on FPS for someone who ruins their alleged allies.
Origin - Counterstrike, no doubt.
  • TrashionalWiki - noun - mocking corruption of "RationalWIki"
Origin - some innocent homskollar
Incidence - Conswervapedia
  • Treefrog - (adj; n) - an environmentalist. Use of the term mocks support of endangered species, eg tree-frogs.
Origin - Sisyphus' reading of the blogger 'hoverfrog's (a longtime B4B troll) signature.
Incidence - Blogs 4 Brownback
  • Troll - (n) - like a vandal a troll does not have the interest of the site he is attacking at heart. (S)he may make posts of a harmless or even beneficial nature in order to lull the moderators/sysops into a false sense of security before starting a divisive & negative campaign. See TK
  • Trollance - (n) - the spoor of a troll. See "vandalism" (invented by SusanG, 06:55, 12 December 2007 (EST))

U

  • U.S.E. - (v; n) - acronym of 'Unplanned Sexual Event'. An attempt to legitimise rape and sexual abuse by saying that it is God's will.
Origin - Lynelle Bryant of Republican Faith (blog)
Incidence - Republican Faith (blog)
Origin - Wikipedia
Incidence - User 188 asks a creep question about young girls.

V

  • Vandalism- (n) On Conservapedia, the posting of unwelcome facts or opinions. Usually grounds for immediate banishment, and the salting of the earth where the malefactor once stood.
Incidence - Conservapedia

W

  • Wandalism - (n) Can mean funny vandalism or even a good edit.
Pioneered by "Somewhere on the Net" but popularized here by user Human.
(from wiki vandalism)
Incidence - Rationalwiki
  • Wazzock - (n) - see "Numpty"
    (see also Wiktionary)
  • Weapon of [noun] (esp. weapon of gun) - (n) Often qualified with the adjective "largely defensive".
Origin - Just a nonsense prefix ("weapon of gun" = "gun") that Andy coinedimg during one of his anti-liberal rants.
Incidence - Teh Wiki of Rational, with increasing frequency.
  • Wheels or On Wheels! - (adv/prep) - reference to a hilarious vandalism tactic in early Conservapedia, whereby vandals would move (Article Name) to (Article Name On Wheels!).
Incidence - Conservapedia
Origin - Wikipedia, with the infamous user "Willy on Wheels".
Origin - Rationalwiki.
Incidence - Rationalwiki.
  • WTF! or WTF?.- (exclamation) - expression of surprise/amazement.
Usually at the antics of right-wingers or believers in the accuracy of, e.g., Genesis, etc.
Around the kids, often "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot"
Origin - uncertain, possibly vulgar.

X

Y

Z

Origin - Philip J. Rayment on a Storehouse of Knowledge.
  • ZOMG - (exclamation) - emphatic use of "OMG," which is, "Oh My God!"
Origin - prepubescent girls
Incidence - RationalWiki
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Footnotes

  1. ↑ "This is really annoying!" James Bonhovant IV: "In Pursuit of Truth"; pub: Hodder and Stoughton 1856
  2. ↑ Note: until about 14-15 hundred CE, this abomination could not have occurred as the letter Thorn, or þorn (Þ, þ) was used for the 'th' sound, thus rendering such infantile amusement unpossible. (See the Wikipedia article on Thorn (letter).)

See also

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