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Group: alt.magick · Group Profile
Author: BassosBassos Date: Sep 19, 2008 09:15
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> "Bassos" wrote in message
> news:48d3cb4a$0$3032$e4fe514c@dreader17.news.xs4all.nl...
>>> Bssos wrote:
>>>> "Absorbed" hotmail.com> wrote in message>>>
>>> Words don't have correct definitions, but only the definitions we as
>>> individuals attribute to them. If you wish to give "the fool" an
>>> alternate meaning because of a desire to convince yourself of how clever
>>> you are by referring to the Tarot, then that's your affair. It would be
>>> no different if I suddenly started interpreting "nuby" to be a great
>>> compliment and stating that you don't understand what a great compliment
>>> it is.
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>> Go ahead.
>> Do some magick for a change (...)
>> Make the word nuby when directed at you mean something grand.
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> I like nuubie. The most consistently presented form of the word, as
> spelled, is 'newbie'. ...but then again, I could really care less for the
> compensatory name-calling and self-stroking that the word implies.
There are a number of different spellings for newbie.
Noob. (derogatory)
Newb. (derogatory)
N00b. (l33t speak)
Newbie (actual classification of someone new to something)
Nuby. (can be derogatory, can be friendly)
Some more are used, but for now, this will suffice.
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