Online Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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ageplay n. Prosecutors in Germany have started to investigate anonymous members of the virtual world Second Life after a German TV news magazine, Report Mainz, uncovered a virtual child sex pornography ring, where users would pay Linden Money, Second Life’s version of Cash, to see pornographic images of children and buy sex with other players who pose as children using “skins’ or “avatars” in a virtual sexual practice known as ageplay. [English Entertainment Online Sex & Sexuality] [full cite] (May. 9, 2007)

autosurfing n. Autosurfing sounds like a great way to pick up some spare cash. You get paid for visiting certain places on the web. Each click on a site or an ad generates money for you. In the real world, this is the equivalent of getting paid to participate in a focus group, fill out a survey, or try out a product. The reason web sites are willing to pay you to surf is because it increases their traffic. With increased traffic they can announce that they are a “most trafficked site” and then charge more money for their ads accordingly. For website owners, autosurfing sites charge a fee promising to increase their traffic; typically owners pay per click. [English Online Technology] [full cite] (Jan. 18, 2007)

backscatter n. Backscatter occurs when a spammer spoofs a legitimate e-mail address to send an unsolicited message to large distribution lists, causing the e-mail server to flood an unsuspecting e-mail address owner’s mailbox with hundreds or thousands of failed delivery messages or bounce backs. [English Online Technology Jargon] [full cite] (Aug. 8, 2008)

bacn n. This one’s hot off the presses, so we’re still deciding on the lame factor. It seems we have a new term in Web 2.0 land, “bacn.” Brought to light at the recent Pittsburgh Podcamp event, the term is being described as “notifications you want, just not right now.” It is in regards to all the special email newsletters and notification we sign up to. Even though you’re expecting them and love the content, now is just not a good time to read them—but you want to; you just don’t have time right now. [English Online Technology New or Nonce Abbreviation] [full cite] (Aug. 21, 2007)

band fiction n. Like any other literary art form, band fiction is not limited to one “type” of story. You will, however, commonly hear stories referred to as “het” or “slash,” terms borrowed from the world of media-based fan fiction. In het stories, the rock star falls in love with (or just has lusty sex with) an original female character—or his real-life wife or girlfriend. The term “slash’ applies to stories where a canonically straight character is paired off with a member of the same sex—homoerotic stories, in other words, or at least stories with homoerotic tensions running through them. [English Arts & Literature Online] [full cite] (Jun. 10, 2006)

bandwidth rape n. Turner also saw his computer server suddenly flooded with Internet data traffic at about 100 times the normal rate—a major concern, because he is billed for all data that flows into and out of the server. In what’s known as “bandwidth rape,” tens of thousands of copies of his Web site and files were being downloaded to the same computers in an apparent bid to saddle him with overwhelming bandwidth fees and force him to shut down, Turner claims. [English Online Technology Slang] [full cite] (Feb. 2, 2007)

banyan model n. He proposes that work groups whose members are widely dispersed but need to have high levels of coordination—say, a computer security team protecting a global bank—do not have to assemble everyone in one room to reap the same benefit. Instead, he suggests a “banyan model,” after the Asian tree that puts down roots from its branches. [English Online Technology Jargon] [full cite] (Oct. 6, 2007)

beme n. A beme is a turbo-charged meme made possible entirely by the existence of the network affect. A beme can be impactful because it is lurid—a photo of a panty-less Britney Spears, or humorous—a whimisical video of the band OKGO on treadmills, or gut-wrenching—the sad tirade by comedian Michael Richards. A beme can cement an idea with the public in a way that cannot be legislated or regulated. No legal effort by Cisco to enforce a trademark, for example, will make the public unlearn that Apple produces the iPhone. [English Media Online New or Nonce] [full cite] (Feb. 19, 2007)

bio break n. One thing I started doing recently (about 1986, I think ;-) is to keep a logbook/diary of what happens. It means we have to stop play fairly often so I can catch up, but everybody uses the time to take a bio break or stretch or something, so it’s not an utter loss. [English Online] [full cite] (May. 18, 2006)

blego n. Jeremy at Corporate Presenter talked about a new word, “blego” (blogger ego), that he picked up from Ken at TECHNOSIGHT. I kind of like that word. Well, here I am stroking both of their blegos at the same time. [English Online] [full cite] (Apr. 9, 2007)

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