OT - Forum Decorum

[LLB]

More or less on the off-topic of "Forum Decorum", I was just browsing postings and looking at people's "ranks" (wondering if I would ever post enough to get myself promoted to corporal), when I noticed something that gave me a chuckle -- all you "seargeants" out there have your ranks misspelled (should be sergeant, according to my dictionary). So there! Now I can feel better for still being a lowly pfc.

(Actually, whoever is responsible for this can count themselves in good company. I read somewhere that Leon Uris -- and his editors -- misspelled sergeant 108 times in his bestseller "Battle Cry".)

[Shyrka]

suicide_junkie, you sometimes post a message with a single word, BUMP. Please, can you tell me what does it mean?

[dumbluck]

He does that to bump the thread back up to the top so that it doesn't get lost in the mass of old topics no-one looks at anymore. He does it to keep the discussion going, to keep the thread alive.

PS I know I'm not SJ, but hey, I knew the answer, and I'm sure he won't mind!

[Suicide Junkie]

Do I really bump that much more than other people around here?
I really can't remember the Last time I did...
...A search tells me I've only used the word bump in five threads, not nessesarily as a "bump", either.

[ 20 January 2002: Message edited by: suicide_junkie ]

[Shyrka]

Thank you for your answers, I'm learning...

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Originally posted by suicide_junkie:
Do I really bump that much more than other people around here?

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Not really, but every time I see it I cannot understand anything and that annoys me because I'm usually very interested in the discussion

I mentioned your name because the first time I saw it was in one of your Posts a while ago, and I spent some time trying to imaginate an English phrase that could match that four characters (B.U.M.P.) and with some sense (Expressions, components, strategies even PBW games)

Of course, I couldn't

[Phoenix-D]

" English phrase that could match that four characters (B.U.M.P.) and with some sense"

Heh. That is your problem right there- it is NOT a phrase. It's a word.

"bump" in this case means "bump it to the top". Think about keeping a volleyball in the air. "bump" in a non-internet context just means a small collison.

Phoenix-D

[Growltigga]

quote:

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Originally posted by LLB:
all you "seargeants" out there have your ranks misspelled (should be sergeant, according to my dictionary)

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maybe it is intentional so that all 'seargeants' are considered to be 'hot stuff'

think about, think about it