Arguments over definitions. July 24, 2002 9:50 AM   Subscribe

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




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