This describes greatly what just happened to me!
I was unfriended!
[QUOTE=venn177;18429166]Defriend would make so much more sense.
[editline]08:04PM[/editline]
Un: to undo
De: to remove
Are you undoing your friend, or removing them?[/QUOTE]
Friend is also a verb on social networking sites, eg HEY BOB I FRIENDED YOU ON FACEBOOK
so in the context of the word it does make sense
isn't it befriended.
[QUOTE=Elexar;18439698]isn't it befriended.[/QUOTE]
That's adding one.
Is "sexting" texting someone with the intention of sex? Or is it more like cyber-sex?
Also I think unfriend fits pretty well.
You undo the process of adding someone as your friend.
Defriend wouldn't transport the whole online/social network character of the word.
"Removing" friends doesn't revoke the status of being friends.
Like when you remove the damn cat from the table again and again and again, it's still a cat.
[QUOTE=Spork-Juct;18429096]Shows how lazy the English language is getting.[/QUOTE]
yeah, we need to bring back middle english!
Syððan wæs geworden þæt he ferde þurh þa ceastre and þæt castel: godes rice prediciende and bodiende. and hi twelfe mid. And sume wif þe wæron gehælede of awyrgdum gastum: and untrumnessum: seo magdalenisce maria ofþære seofan deoflu uteodon: and iohanna chuzan wif herodes gerefan: and susanna and manega oðre þe him of hyra spedum þenedon.
That's pathetic.
[QUOTE=Doug52392;18436764]Thee be right ho; thou langust'st change as day go'ont!
Ah, how thou remeber'st a day we talk to the likes that I do now ho! Thee be long'st ago, ere long forgotten words be'th dead!
Now we say this instead:
lol i unfriended that idiot... wut r u doin 2nite???[/QUOTE]
No, in their original form they are much more complicated/difficult to understand than that.
I prefer swedish, but I have some bad troubles understanding the old swedish from the 16th century :3
[QUOTE=MrJazzy;18440120]I prefer swedish, but I have some bad troubles understanding the old swedish from the 16th century :3[/QUOTE]
I have that exact same problem.
[QUOTE=TH89;18440213]I have that exact same problem.[/QUOTE]
Onsdagen then 16:e Octobris 1754. Min Sluup kom thenna dag in från London med XX nye Men them man samlat up i väst-india. Spanjorer från Martineco och 2 Nederlandare från Surinam. Nederlandarne lära Desertera efter at ha fåt höra Något ondt om thessa Företagen, men skal jag tilse at the här blifwa...
:P
[QUOTE=Doug52392;18429258]The effects of Internet and "text message" lingo has turned the English language into Newspeak.[/QUOTE]
Nonsense, comrade
bb miscount 52392 send to joycamp
[QUOTE=Spork-Juct;18429096]Shows how lazy the English language is getting.[/QUOTE]
Do you find it ungood? I personally find it a doubleplusgood idea. It can't happen speedful enough.
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[QUOTE=MrJazzy;18440414]Onsdagen then 16:e Octobris 1754. Min Sluup kom thenna dag in från London med XX nye Men them man samlat up i väst-india. Spanjorer från Martineco och 2 Nederlandare från Surinam. Nederlandarne lära Desertera efter at ha fåt höra Något ondt om thessa Företagen, men skal jag tilse at the här blifwa...
:P[/QUOTE]
Not that difficult to read.
Keep it up with the 1984 references everyone!
You're so funny and you obviously understand the book very well!
It would have been much better if they used a word people actually use.
[QUOTE=Spork-Juct;18429096]Shows how lazy the English language is getting.[/QUOTE]
Indeed it is
By the way, someone thought of the newspeak before me
This is like the Third Reich recruiting Jews for the army.
What the fuck is wrong with these people?
[QUOTE=Baldr;18444344]Not that difficult to read.[/QUOTE]
Perhaps not, it was a bad example, but it exposes some of the old words.
Hm, can't believe people are actually being serious with some of the 1984 references.
In the book, Newspeak is constructed in such a way that ideas contrary to the regime are unable to be communicated, essentially using language as another means of controlling people's thoughts.
This is quite the opposite, more words to communicate ideas with.
[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;18452022]Hm, can't believe people are actually being serious with some of the 1984 references.
In the book, Newspeak is constructed in such a way that ideas contrary to the regime are unable to be communicated, essentially using language as another means of controlling people's thoughts.
This is quite the opposite, more words to communicate ideas with.[/QUOTE]
I doublethink you're trippleplussbadthinking.
I feel this unfriend word is double plus good, good english is ungood and we should unfriend it.
[b]Edit:[/b]
also to all the people in this thread saying this has nothing to do with 1984, although that's not what this updating of english is intended to do, it is doing something very similar to what newspeak was; preventing people from having to think.
It's an interesting development in language that all of our online fake words are slowly becoming real words. Makes me wonder if all words in language just started as "fake words".
[QUOTE=venn177;18429166]Defriend would make so much more sense.
[editline]08:04PM[/editline]
Un: to undo
De: to remove
Are you undoing your friend, or removing them?[/QUOTE]
I'm going to undo you.
[QUOTE=venn177;18429166]
Un: to undo
[/QUOTE]
Isn't that a little recursive? :psyduck:
[QUOTE=Andy-;18460833]Isn't that a little recursive? :psyduck:[/QUOTE]
Nope, because undo is a base word, the prefix "Un" comes from the word undo, not the other way around.
[QUOTE=SM0K3 B4N4N4;18459441]I feel this unfriend word is double plus good, good english is ungood and we should unfriend it.
[b]Edit:[/b]
also to all the people in this thread saying this has nothing to do with 1984, although that's not what this updating of english is intended to do, it is doing something very similar to what newspeak was; preventing people from having to think.[/QUOTE]
The point of newspeak was to keep people from thinking about certain concepts that opposed The Party, not to make you have to, "think less".
I'm not sure how this word even makes you think less.
[QUOTE=power-mad;18459576]Makes me wonder if all words in language just started as "fake words".[/QUOTE]
They did.
These people usually ignore a lot of criticism they get for the words they add, no matter what word they add someone is going to complain anyway.
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