Arguments over definitions.

July 24, 2002 9:50 AM

Hey Matt, you should start a new subsite called MetaWord. Visitors would contribute single word posts, like Heart, or Hero, or Terrorist or Gallbladder and then everyone can argue about what the word means and did mean and should mean and would mean if we all spoke Esperanto and wore those hats with the fruit on them.

Alternatively -- and this might even be a better idea, if possible -- MetaWord would have regular posts, but comments would be limited to one word. You could even do away with the textfield and just give people a dropdown box with preselected words like 'Doublepost!,' 'Racist!,' 'Troll!' 'Nazi!' 'Liberal!' 'Kitties!' and '*yawn*'. And then we could argue about the meaning of the word "yawn."
posted by Shadowkeeper to MetaFilter-Related at 9:50 AM (48 comments total)

Don't forget Possum.
posted by Marquis at 10:13 AM on July 24, 2002

No no. Please forget possum.

Marquis, now I really AM going to send you a mix CD full of Hall & Oates.
posted by Sapphireblue at 10:15 AM on July 24, 2002

You'll also need to add

bunny, rabbit, Conservative!, Libertarian!, Socialist!, Marxist!, Fundamentalist!, Athiest!.

I also reccomend yes, no, and maybe.
posted by insomnyuk at 10:15 AM on July 24, 2002

Oh, and www.metaword.com is already in development.
posted by Ufez Jones at 10:16 AM on July 24, 2002

yet, oddly enough, it seems to use a familiar color. hmmm....
posted by Ufez Jones at 10:18 AM on July 24, 2002

yet, oddly enough, it seems to use a familiar color. hmmm....

(The discerning viewer will note the use of #336699 on metaword, as opposed to metafilter's #006699.)
posted by Darth Vader at 10:30 AM on July 24, 2002

Word.
posted by Skot at 10:34 AM on July 24, 2002

I suggest we try to register lemmingfilter.com
posted by insomnyuk at 11:00 AM on July 24, 2002

sorry, i've got horrible eyesight, and a really old computer here at work. guess i'm just not discernable discerning enough. thanks anyways, lord vader.
posted by Ufez Jones at 11:07 AM on July 24, 2002

Miguel.
posted by moz at 11:28 AM on July 24, 2002

Nope.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 11:34 AM on July 24, 2002

It's only words, and words are all I have, to take your heart away.
posted by MUD at 11:38 AM on July 24, 2002

pancake: tomcatspike says it can be used as a verb.
posted by adampsyche at 11:39 AM on July 24, 2002

Silliest.
posted by timeistight at 11:39 AM on July 24, 2002

MetaTalk.
posted by timeistight at 11:39 AM on July 24, 2002

Thread.
posted by timeistight at 11:39 AM on July 24, 2002

Ever.
posted by timeistight at 11:39 AM on July 24, 2002

Ever?
posted by insomnyuk at 11:39 AM on July 24, 2002

semantics.
strawman.
oops.
posted by whatnot at 11:42 AM on July 24, 2002

Why, that's Calvinism!
posted by kindall at 11:52 AM on July 24, 2002

Nader
posted by captain obvious at 12:24 PM on July 24, 2002

Doh!
posted by me3dia at 12:27 PM on July 24, 2002

poopyhead.
posted by quonsar at 12:28 PM on July 24, 2002

fuckwit.
posted by yhbc at 12:29 PM on July 24, 2002

Crokinole!

posted by MiguelCardoso at 12:37 PM on July 24, 2002

Settle!
posted by Ufez Jones at 12:42 PM on July 24, 2002

Pablum.
posted by readymade at 12:56 PM on July 24, 2002

Pablum.
posted by readymade at 12:56 PM on July 24, 2002

Double.
posted by yhbc at 1:01 PM on July 24, 2002

ARSE!
posted by i_cola at 1:12 PM on July 24, 2002

Troll.
posted by dhartung at 1:26 PM on July 24, 2002

GIRLS!
posted by PinkStainlessTail at 1:31 PM on July 24, 2002

DRINK!
posted by PinkStainlessTail at 1:31 PM on July 24, 2002

two
posted by thomcatspike at 1:34 PM on July 24, 2002

Crocodile
posted by Kafkaesque at 1:35 PM on July 24, 2002

Straw
posted by evanizer at 1:39 PM on July 24, 2002

Man
posted by evanizer at 1:39 PM on July 24, 2002

FECK!
posted by i_cola at 1:41 PM on July 24, 2002

LESS!
posted by insomnyuk at 1:44 PM on July 24, 2002

BAXTER!
posted by PinkStainlessTail at 1:47 PM on July 24, 2002

~I am totally surprised this thread turned out like this.~
posted by daveadams at 1:49 PM on July 24, 2002

Fork!
posted by yhbc at 1:51 PM on July 24, 2002

Boobies!
posted by Ufez Jones at 2:27 PM on July 24, 2002

Satan!
posted by inpHilltr8r at 2:33 PM on July 24, 2002

Cacophony!
posted by Danelope at 3:10 PM on July 24, 2002

Mantelope!
posted by euphorb at 3:39 PM on July 24, 2002

Cacodemon!
posted by youhas at 3:39 PM on July 24, 2002

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
posted by vacapinta at 4:45 PM on July 24, 2002