to think MNHQ shoudl make a 'MN terms' section

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like they have for Acronymns and FAQs

but this would be for all the 'in joke' and local stuff that only appears on MN. Stuff the makes newbies or the uninitiated got wtf

For example:

Wendied

AIBU?
Also what else would you put on there?

4

YABU. You could just ask what's being referred to. In the case of 'wendied' I have seen the question asked and answered more than once.

Yanbu

Wendy is a cosy MN term.

I'm a bit confused now with reality and MN, the things I think are MN but aren't possibly are :- naice, blardy..lots more I'll remember I'm sure.

This is a taat from this evening and on that thread, the term Wendy is explained by other posters a few times.

YANBU, although I understand most of them, so am not invested in this much!

I do an advanced search to look up terms that come up... I've learnt a lot, quickly.

The trolls would love it.

The thing is, those shared jokes make us a community and you become part of it by joining in and asking. Then you tentatively use them yourself. Eventually you're using them in normal conversation and people look at you funny.

When I joined people used to use 4 and parp a lot and I didn't know to what they were referring. Eleven years later (SIOB), I sort of know what people are talking about.

It's better to get the feel of a forum and work out what that forums terms mean.

When I first joined posters used to use the word 'loofah' instead of spider.

I wanted to post 'spider' just to see what would happen.

See - I'll show you how it works (hopefully ) because I have no idea what

4

means.

Someone?

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But you just type 4. It's a distant cousin of the biscuit.