It has also become Deathmatch Culture for a superior quote being beaten by an inferior one.
ETA: Due to the demise of the Snyder quote.
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It has also become Deathmatch Culture for a superior quote being beaten by an inferior one.
ETA: Due to the demise of the Snyder quote.
Well, in the context of Quotables it means a quote has been robbed of its rightful OTQ status ... got spazzed.
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Ah. I was just going with short for "spastic." Which ain't so pretty, sans context (and even then ....)
I really like spaz in the context, but even dictionary.com labels it as "Offensive Slang" (as opposed to just Slang.) So I got to vote against it.
how about more quote context? Like, "Summers still drives like a spaz" or something. Or, more obscurely, "Istanbul got spazzed!"
"Istanbul got spazzed!"
I like this.
"Istanbul got spazzed!"
Love that.
ETA: I did go to dictionary.com after reading Wolfram's post to enter a bunch of other words that I thought were more or less on the same level of insult, but nary a one of them except for spaz got the offensive slang callout. So, I guess I learned something today.
spaz is offensive because it's short of "spastic", which is a kind of cerebral palsy. I have no idea if it has yet been adopted as affirmative slang in the way that "dyke" has.
While I have no opinion one way or the other on its use in a thread title, I have trouble imagining most of the people who use it today even being aware of its etymology.
I can't believe the Buffistas would take the word of a quasi authority on a linguistic matter. AT LEAST forty people need to weigh in first.
All snark aside, seems like spaz is no worse than "dumb". After all, all pejorative words have negative etymologies. We have any actual empirical evidence of offense? I wouldn't have connected spastic to CP without explicit help.