Is there a GitP dialect?

[super dark33]

So i watched this video by the PBS Idea Channel:


And naturally, i thought of InternetHome: Giant in the Playground.

So I ask you, do you think there is a GitP dialect?

[Tvtyrant]

So basically it is referencing a mixture of subject jargon and collectively held values?

Sure, the D&D/GitP community has a massive emphasis on legalistic interpretations, which shows up in the D&D, comic thread, and especially versus threads.

It also has jargon like RAW, RAI, Oberon Fallacy, Snowbluff Axiom, Rudisplork (newest one I think), Grod's Law, Monkday, etc. These make no sense to an outsider, and act as a barrier to entrance into the community.

Also celebrity posters exist on the forum, who act as shorthand for certain viewpoints.

[Pyromancer999]

So basically it is referencing a mixture of subject jargon and collectively held values?

Sure, the D&D/GitP community has a massive emphasis on legalistic interpretations, which shows up in the D&D, comic thread, and especially versus threads.

It also has jargon like RAW, RAI, Oberon Fallacy, Snowbluff Axiom, Rudisplork (newest one I think), Grod's Law, Monkday, etc. These make no sense to an outsider, and act as a barrier to entrance into the community.

Also celebrity posters exist on the forum, who act as shorthand for certain viewpoints.

It is a dialect with certain Jargon, but it's not exclusive to GiantITP. The jargon is shared by several websites that discuss the legal aspects of 3.5 and the like, so technically not a GiTP dialect, as it's not exclusive to GiTP.

There are a couple terms that are exclusive to GiTP, like Rudisplork, but that is not enough to constitute a whole dialect, and is more just some people making up new words as they go. Not sure if people can come to a consensus on what terms like that mean, for at least some of them.

So, a bit of gray area, but overall no dialect, I'd say, although there is potential for one to form.

[Lord Raziere]

It certainly does, though by such a measurement, I don't really possess the dialect or really am a part of the community, since I do not like legalistic interpretation or use any of that lingo myself, despite being here for some time myself. But there are exceptions to every community I guess. such things mostly come up in threads I mostly avoid.

[Tengu_temp]

Using blue text for sarcasm is unique to the GitP forums, as far as I know. And I don't mean that in a good way.

[Archonic Energy]

AFONAL day. almost all links go back here
also we may have the most posts of a particular comic involving birthdays and Death's abacus
*stabbity*
The feud
white text? I'm not sure about it, but while I'm here... *stab the hippie*

[Heliomance]

There is no dialect, citizen. Go back to your fun.
Bananas.

[Jayngfet]

So I ask you, do you think there is a GitP dialect?

Most people use DM instead of GM or another specific game term to refer to the person running the game. Mostly because this is a comic based on a DND game and most of our other long discussed gaming comics are DND based.

Then of course comes the inevitable euphemisms. Mainly because of the fact that GITP forums are supposed to somehow be more kid friendly than every single other thing on the site, and most of the prominent posters who were ever that young to begin with have long since become adults.

[KuReshtin]

The yellow berry/fruit that we do not talk about.
The one that is harvested from trees that walk.

[Knaight]

Using blue text for sarcasm is unique to the GitP forums, as far as I know. And I don't mean that in a good way.

It's also basically dead. It was a localized linguistic fad which never really attained particularly widespread use, and has now gone out of fashion.

[geonova]

At least in the 3.5 threads we use Swordsage'd instead of Ninja'd, mainly because a swordsage is a better ninja than a ninja.

[RabbitHoleLost]

I know, back in my hayday's on this forum, that there were lots of words and phrases used specifically in SMGB and FFRP/Town that could have counted as a dialect specific to that particular subsection of the boards.
But skimming through it, none of that has survived, really.

[Archonic Energy]

It's also basically dead. It was a localized linguistic fad which never really attained particularly widespread use, and has now gone out of fashion.

that reminds me, I was going to try to start a thing where everything in dark orange needs to be read in a British accent*.



* the reader gets to pick which British accent. I would default to west country because why wouldn't you

[Eldan]

Heck, we even have subaccents by board. And sometimes subgroups on board. The TW crew is pretty tight-knit, though we mostly hang out on Skype these days. On the other hand, whenever I have a look into Friendly Banter (especially Random Banter) or Art, I'm quite confused.

[Bulldog Psion]

Blue sarcasm appears to be alive and well to me.

[valadil]

Using blue text for sarcasm is unique to the GitP forums, as far as I know. And I don't mean that in a good way.

I'm not a fan of that, but I do like red mod text.

[Lord Magtok]

Is the United States still Trogland? That's still a thing, right?

[nedz]

At least in the 3.5 threads we use Swordsage'd instead of Ninja'd, mainly because a swordsage is a better ninja than a ninja.

Also Monk'd, which is a bit like Swordsage'd except it was a little slow off the mark — like someone said the same thing two pages ago.

[Aedilred]

Like Pyromancer, I don't think I'd say there's a GITP dialect. Accent is - orange text notwithstanding* - indistinguishable, and syntax and grammar is as anywhere else where English is spoken, or at least typed.

There is some apparently unique vocabulary, but it's hardly universal, often confined to individual threads, boards or cliques, or conversely used commonly with other communities. At most there's probably more of a GITP-specific lexicon. Maybe jargon.


*Why wouldn't you indeed.

[Archonic Energy]

morning farmer Lister. I'm just popping down the shops in my submarine can I buy you anything?

[Grinner]

morning farmer Lister. I'm just popping down the shops in my submarine can I buy you anything?

I couldn't help but read that with a Southern accent (Andy Griffith's, specifically).

It's not working.

[Mauve Shirt]

The GITP dialect is subtle, but can be described as a veneer of sweetness over some of the most intense passive aggression you've ever encountered.

We have memes that are specific to the playground, but memes do not make a dialect.

[Graypairofsocks]

Using blue text for sarcasm is unique to the GitP forums, as far as I know. And I don't mean that in a good way.

Could you elaborate on this?

[nedz]

morning farmer Lister. I'm just popping down the shops in my submarine can I buy you anything?

I couldn't help but read that with a Southern accent (Andy Griffith's, specifically).

It's not working.

My thought was Rimmer, Arnold J.

[Eldan]

Could you elaborate on this?

Can't speak for other posters, but I think clearly marking sarcasm with something like an irony mark or a colour defeats the entire purpose of being sarcastic in the first place.

[nedz]

Can't speak for other posters, but I think clearly marking sarcasm with something like an irony mark or a colour defeats the entire purpose of being sarcastic in the first place.

In verbal communication sarcasm is often denoted by tone of voice. I've occasionally run into situations where posters took a comment literally rather than ironically. There is also the double irony of marking sarcasm as such, and it also allows for deeper sarcasm.

[Frozen_Feet]

I fail to see the point of coloring texts when we have smileys.

[Gnomvid]

Aye, right ye are laddie mirk orange needs tae be reid wi' a British accent.

[Aedilred]

In verbal communication sarcasm is often denoted by tone of voice. I've occasionally run into situations where posters took a comment literally rather than ironically. There is also the double irony of marking sarcasm as such, and it also allows for deeper sarcasm.

I do my best not to make sarcasm obvious by tone of voice in speech either.

I've never been able to pin down quite what annoys me about the blue text, but I think it's at least in part because it's an obvious marker for "this is meant to be funny", which always makes anything seem less funny, somehow. And sarcasm is rarely particularly funny in the first place, especially when it's obvious sarcasm. You might as well preface it with "lol" and end it with "!!!".

Aye, right ye are laddie mirk orange needs tae be reid wi' a British accent.

I tried to say that in a west country accent and I think I broke my jaw.

[Archonic Energy]

Aye, right ye are laddie mirk orange needs tae be reid wi' a British accent.

From the first word that was "Scottish" in my head which is correct... For the moment

Unable to comment further because of the rules.

Then again if I said dark green should be read in an American accent what would you default to?
Texas? California? Canada*?
It's an odd thing

* for those pedantic people who know I mean the states but will insist on saying that Canada is in North America too... oh and Brazil for South America