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superacidjax
Joined: 17 Oct 2006
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 Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 6:35 pm Post subject: "Netizens" -- what a dumb term. |
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This is a really silly thing about which to be annoyed, but the term "netizen" is pretty darned irritating. It's a cutesy term that is way overused in Korea.
I know the term isn't uniquely Korean, at least according to Wiki, but wow, it seems like Koreans use it all the darned time.
Does anyone have any other terms that are annoying to them? I'd be interested in hearing what "cutesy/clever" words annoy you guys.. |
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mole
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| Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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| I like 'netizens' because we can use it disparagingly here and they like it. |
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cruisemonkey
Joined: 04 Jul 2005
Location: Hopefully, the same place as my luggage.
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| Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 8:33 pm Post subject: Re: "Netizens" -- what a dumb term. |
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| superacidjax wrote: |
| I'd be interested in hearing what "cutesy/clever" words annoy you guys.. |
Use of the pronoun "we" when refering to pregnancy. |
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superacidjax
Joined: 17 Oct 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 9:53 pm Post subject: Re: "Netizens" -- what a dumb term. |
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| cruisemonkey wrote: |
| Use of the pronoun "we" when refering to pregnancy. |
For sure. I love it. 
"We're having a baby!" the happy husband gushes.
To which I respond:
"No as$-clown, YOU aren't having anything. It's your wife that's squeezing out the bloody alien. You knocked HER up (or so you think,) you didn't both get fertilized!" |
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robot
Joined: 07 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 1:09 am Post subject: Re: "Netizens" -- what a dumb term. |
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| superacidjax wrote: |
| cruisemonkey wrote: |
| Use of the pronoun "we" when refering to pregnancy. |
For sure. I love it.
"We're having a baby!" the happy husband gushes.
To which I respond:
"No as$-clown, YOU aren't having anything. It's your wife that's squeezing out the bloody alien. You knocked HER up (or so you think,) you didn't both get fertilized!" |
That's a dick thing to say.
"Having a baby" implies more than just the birthing process. |
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superacidjax
Joined: 17 Oct 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 1:36 am Post subject: Re: "Netizens" -- what a dumb term. |
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| robot wrote: |
That's a dick thing to say.
"Having a baby" implies more than just the birthing process. |
Yeah, but "we" aren't pregnant. "She" is pregnant. That "we" business is just another example of the long-happening emasculation of men.
Men don't say, "we're on our period." Men don't complain about being bloated. So men can't get pregnant either.
It's pretty annoying how just about every single American TV commercial for just about any kind of home or food product shows men being complete idiots compared to the woman. And little boys are supposed to be "sensitive."
It's like those stupid soccer games kids play in the US where they don't even keep score because "everyone's a winner." They don't want to hurt little junior's feelings. Blah. A bunch of touchy-feeley crap. Kids should play sports to win. You learn just as much from defeat as you do victory. You learn nothing when you never risk losing, except maybe how to hug a lot and reduce your carbon footprint.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/06/05/keeping_score_isnt_goal____or_is_it/
Bollucks!
Men get women pregnant. The man and the woman become the parents. The man should be a dad and not a hairy version of mom.
"We" aren't pregnant.
Here is a brilliant article saying things better than I could:
http://www.iranian.com/main/node/62505 |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
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| Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 1:42 am Post subject: Re: "Netizens" -- what a dumb term. |
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| robot wrote: |
| "Having a baby" implies more than just the birthing process. |
Right. Couples "have babies" and either husband or wife can say "we're having a baby". If the husband said "We're giving birth", then you can slug him. But is that really what husbands say? Never heard it.
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| I'd be interested in hearing what "cutesy/clever" words annoy you guys.. |
cutesy/clever? I can't think of any. Oh, I got one! White chicks referring to their breasts as "the girls". Meant to be funny & cute, but it really isn't.
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superacidjax
Joined: 17 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 1:44 am Post subject: Re: "Netizens" -- what a dumb term. |
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| JongnoGuru wrote: |
| White chicks referring to their breasts as "the girls". Meant to be funny & cute, but it really isn't. |
Great one! |
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superacidjax
Joined: 17 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 3:32 am Post subject: |
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| Thought of another one: The 386 Generation. |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 6:15 am Post subject: |
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| The word netizens makes me think of the Borg in Star Trek and when they say "You will be assimilated, resistance is futile!". |
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Robot_Teacher
Joined: 18 Feb 2009
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| Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 6:44 am Post subject: |
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| Adventurer wrote: |
| The word netizens makes me think of the Borg in Star Trek and when they say "You will be assimilated, resistance is futile!". |
Netizens, the new internet and media police is coming to a PC near you. Netizen as in cyber citizen of a community like we are in this site. |
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Rory_Calhoun27
Joined: 14 Feb 2009
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The most annoying attempt at Political Correctness has to be when the majority of US citizens are described as "European Americans" regarding their race. What makes it even more troubling is when White people use it.
If Blacks want to be known as "African Americans," that's their choice. But to then change EVERYONE'S ethnic name to appease a minority also wreaks of racism. I'm White, I prefer to be known as White. YOUR turn to deal with the stigma!
Speaking of political correctness, my college's newspaper REALLY embarrassed themselve by calling EVEYONE ******-American, even those that weren't. A student from Ghana was still an "African-American" graduate student from Ghana. |
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Robot_Teacher
Joined: 18 Feb 2009
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| Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 6:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Ooooh, now we're talking race. Yes, racism is annoying and it's prevalent in this strange land of netizens who all look like drones with black hair with a few exceptions such as senior citizens. Foreigners not welcome in their cyber world so I'll stay in the Western realm of the internet as I couldn't play their online PC bang games. Since old people don't normally use hand phones and computer, they're senior citizens, but I bet they're are many old netizens, especially in Seoul. |
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Ginormousaurus
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 5:27 am Post subject: |
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A couple years ago there was a short-lived campaign to promote more kindness among the netizens of Korea by asking them to be 'goodtizens'. The catchy name never stuck.
There's a thread about it buried somewhere on this site. |
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