Need your help with an LJ lexicon
May. 5th, 2005 12:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katekatI am horribly behind responding to people who so kindly responded to my last couple of posts. Not that I don't love you - just that I'm trying to be a good girl and study while the studying needs doing. Sorry!
And, actually, I have a favor to ask of my flist. I'm doing a very simple linguistics project - I have to make up a lexicon of a specific group (lexicon = the vocabulary of a person, group, subject, or language; also, the total morphemes of a language). Live Journal is *way* too rich a field for me not to use it. So, what lj specific words do you use? Not ones that are defined by LJ, but ones that we all make up and use every day. Think slang terms.
Some examples of what I'm looking for:
flist = A single page containing the most recent posts of all the people a specific live journal user has linked to (within the live journal system)
defriend = the act of removing a friend from one’s flist
tag-fic = A live journal that is a story written by two (or more) authors who take turns entering posts that further the plot. The journal exists only as a story, and doesn’t include an diary-type entries (unless that is part of the format of the story). Usually takes months to complete, and although the story-arcs are prearranged by the authors, but the individual posts and the events in them are written by one author.
kerfluffle = Noun: an fight carried out between people whose only method of communication is live journal; usually starts when one user writes a post that is accusatory, then the second user responds to that post with a rebuttal and encourages friends to participate in responding. It may also include a post in the second users’ live journal defending their innocence, and the first user’s friends making nasty comments on that post. Generally the fight involves quite heated comments, and is often started over misconstrued intentions that are blown out of proportion.
All I need is five more ... any help?? I'd snuggle you forever - or make you the icon of your choice....
And, actually, I have a favor to ask of my flist. I'm doing a very simple linguistics project - I have to make up a lexicon of a specific group (lexicon = the vocabulary of a person, group, subject, or language; also, the total morphemes of a language). Live Journal is *way* too rich a field for me not to use it. So, what lj specific words do you use? Not ones that are defined by LJ, but ones that we all make up and use every day. Think slang terms.
Some examples of what I'm looking for:
flist = A single page containing the most recent posts of all the people a specific live journal user has linked to (within the live journal system)
defriend = the act of removing a friend from one’s flist
tag-fic = A live journal that is a story written by two (or more) authors who take turns entering posts that further the plot. The journal exists only as a story, and doesn’t include an diary-type entries (unless that is part of the format of the story). Usually takes months to complete, and although the story-arcs are prearranged by the authors, but the individual posts and the events in them are written by one author.
kerfluffle = Noun: an fight carried out between people whose only method of communication is live journal; usually starts when one user writes a post that is accusatory, then the second user responds to that post with a rebuttal and encourages friends to participate in responding. It may also include a post in the second users’ live journal defending their innocence, and the first user’s friends making nasty comments on that post. Generally the fight involves quite heated comments, and is often started over misconstrued intentions that are blown out of proportion.
All I need is five more ... any help?? I'd snuggle you forever - or make you the icon of your choice....
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Date: 2005-05-05 05:41 am (UTC)Really interesting use of LJ on "friend" and "defriend".
Such loaded terms.
Linguistically, or thinking in terms of CIS tools, they could have chosen something much less value-laden...interest group member? Anything?
But damn, they called it friends. And it plugs into everyone's emotional space. And getting defriended plugs into everyone's emotional space, although it might just mean that one found oneself not so interested in the online journal of someone that one had never met. Hello??? Normally not a confrontative experience! But all the sudden on LJ one has to "DEFRIEND" them, and it's all emotional.
I've abandoned that level of academia, but I still think that's damn intriguing. Go for it, girl.
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Date: 2005-05-05 05:52 am (UTC)I know! Aren't they ever!?! I wish I could do a paper on just those two. Or on Live Journal as a community - although I'm sure there are thousands out there who are. It's such a different space than any of the other blogging communities (except, i think great journal copied LJ, but that's just imitation). And it really does create a *community* through those flists. I'd had a google blog for a couple of years, and didn't spend half as much time on it as I do with LJ, just getting to know people. And I feel like I do actually know pieces of people becasue of their LJs and how they respond to comments. And the friending and defriending is such an evil twisted wonderful process!
My first couple of months on LJ I was confused when I saw one of those posts that said "Ok, I'm just cleaning out my flist because I can't read everything, so don't be offended if you're defriended!" and was amazed that people would have a problem with it. Now, though, I realize what a bizzare thing it would be if my LJ friends defriended me!