Monday, January 30, 2012

Where do the words from the Urban Dictionary come from?

I will look for the spelling of an unusual word in a game I play. Alot of them come from the Urban Dictionary. Where did they come up with these words??????????Where do the words from the Urban Dictionary come from?
they get them from people just like you and me.
People like you and me submit them. I have submitted two! I give them my proposed term, a definition, and some tags, which are related words. They are reviewed before they are added to the dictionary (I don't know by who or by what criteria, but they don't necessarily appear, and when they do, it can be after a few days).



Once they are added to the dictionary, other users vote thumbs up or down on the definition.



This is my author page: http://www.urbandictionary.com/author.ph鈥?/a> It has both of my suggestions with links to them. I made them both up, trying to coin new phrases. The first one, "jetsonic" http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.ph鈥?/a> , hasn't been voted on by anybody. That's probably because I made it up and nobody can say yes, that's right or no, that's wrong. I was just hoping they would vote yes if they liked it and it made sense.



The second one, I must warn you, is obscene but funny. It's surf and turf http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.ph鈥?/a> Once again, I was trying to coin a phrase that I made up, but this time, people voted on it, presently 11 up and 12 down. I'm interpreting this to mean that 11 liked it and a total of twelve were either saying they didn't like it or it was wrong. I say wrong because there are two more entries for surf and turf after mine that probably had established usage, and some of the people who knew those meanings may just thought have thought that mine was wrong because it wasn't one of the right ones, although I might add that both of the other two definitions following mine had worse ratios of thumbs up and down.Where do the words from the Urban Dictionary come from?
It is slang and I need it. I love chatting with the young folks, but often I have no ideal what they are talking about. I usually have to ask them to explain it.



Of course, I was never into slang even when I was younger.
Urban Dictionary is a slang dictionary with your definitions. (user definations)



http://www.urbandictionary.com.au/Where do the words from the Urban Dictionary come from?
No idea, this may help:

http://timtatca.com/

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