Comments on: Verbing Metafilter

By: Josh Millard

Josh Millard — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:03:45 +0000

Note from a fellow mefite:

“Interesting. I have verbed “fpp” for this purpose:
I’m thinking of fpping that
You should fpp that

Pronounced eff pee pee.”

FPP is mefi jargon for Front Page Post (see meanings (1) and (2), then). But FPP captures a much more specific subset of metafilter activity, and so the verb “to FPP” probably doesn’t take much else in the way of potential meanings.

Another research project for another day: the metafilter(-and-elsewhere?) use of “OP” to refer to either the Original Poster of a given thread, or the Original Post itself, or possibly something else. I did some very brief scratching around on the subject a while back.

By: Josh Millard

Josh Millard — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:26:08 +0000

I don’t know if I can survive another Jofusing.

Thanks, you guys.

By: Jofus

Jofus — Tue, 06 May 2008 12:33:28 +0000

I love you, but I must destroy you.

By: Dan Bruno

Dan Bruno — Tue, 06 May 2008 12:13:56 +0000

That link from Language Log is the best thing that ever happened to this blog.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Tue, 06 May 2008 11:46:42 +0000

you have a giant donut. in your pants.

By: taz

taz — Tue, 06 May 2008 08:24:42 +0000

Also, I’m a little sorry that re-reading that intro bit reveals that you aren’t really talking about “dwarf verb-form uses” at all. *sigh*

By: taz

taz — Tue, 06 May 2008 08:22:30 +0000

You are completely insane. Yet somehow appealing.

By: dg

dg — Tue, 06 May 2008 08:16:15 +0000

Man, you have got to reveal the secret of how you fit so much into a day. It would take me a week to come up with as much meaningless banter as you can spout in half-an-hour ;-)