So here’s the second part of the SL Glossary (Read the first part here):
N
Neko: An odd phenomenon which spread grid wide and resulted in human avatars gaining feline features and using “=^.^=” a lot. Usually lack the desire to go fully furry.
Noob: You are, if you’re actually looking this up.
Notecards: Used as a method of communication to busy, important srious people to make sure they don’t miss your IMs. Also used to let shop owners know of malls or save chat logs for blackmail purposes. No other uses have been noted.
O
Openspaces: Based on a common marketing ploy employed by retailers to get you to buy their product at a discount introductory price, and then jacking the rental up over time, without actually telling you the initial price is introductory.
Orbiter: A way of showing people who’s boss when you don’t own the land you’re on.
Orientation Island: A place to hook up with other people looking for no-strings sex.
P
Prim: The root cause of all this grief.
Profile: You’re avenue to giving the residents of Second Life some clue as to who you are. Leaving this blank will tell people you’re either a noob, an alt or a bot.
Profile Pick: A political institution unto itself. Hordes of Second Life residents will weep in joy when finding themselves on a Profile Pick, and cry outrage when they are taken out.
R
Real Life: A combination of a First Life and a Second Life. And possibly a third one if you’re in WoW too, in which case you have *way* too much time on your hands.
Release Candidate: A viewer which a lot of residents use as it’s more stable than the standard viewer, but resolves Linden Lab of having to take responsibility for any bugs/crashes because it’s only a “test viewer”.
Resident: Love thy fellow avatar. Deep down, we’re all just mesh, aren’t we?
Ruth: Allegedly a feature of the past, whereby prim hair and an odd body would appear on the shape of an avatar, making way for endless humourous pictures. This was eventually replaced with a cloud of gas after Philip Linden was spotted smiling broadly with an ample bust.
Rez Day: A celebration that a resident has managed to last another year in Second Life without attaining a murder conviction.
S
Showcase: A list of all the places in Second Life where you can go and get pestered for sex by freenis-laden noobs without actually having to seek it.
Skybox: Because you don’t want people to know you’re into “that”.
SL5B: About as catastrophic a grid event can possibly get.
SL6B: We’re optimistic. No, really.
SLebrity: A figment of your virtual imagination. One man’s fame is another man’s “Ummm.. who?”
T
Teen Grid: A vast ghost town of a lot of ripped content. Also known as “The Forgotton Grid” because apparently, nobody will think of the children anymore.. until the prospect of them coming to Main Grid arises and suddenly people scream bloody murder.
Teleport (TP): The one thing which is guaranteed to fail when you really need to get out of a sim. Or after you’ve said goodbye to everyone, and then find out you can’t tp out.
Terraforming: The single most annoying and frustrating part of creation in Second Life.
U
User Interface: Simple to use provided you’ve been in SL for at least 3 months. Apart from the Advanced menu, which nobody really understands – they just click stuff and hope for the best.
V
Value Added Tax: The best thing to have ever happened to American land barons.
Voice: Because sometimes, it’s just nice to know if that girl really is a girl.
W
Windlight: A method for making Second Life much more pretty for anyone with a powerful machine, and speeding up the graying hair process for those still on a 486.
X
XStreet SL: A timely reminder that Linden Lab can take over resident run schemes, and then proceed to break them.
Y
Yiff: You don’t want to know.
Tary Allen on April 23, 2009
Orbiter: A way of showing people who’s boss when you don’t own the land you’re on.
lolol, best definition I have ever seen!!
Gabby McCullough on April 23, 2009
“Apart from the Advanced menu, which nobody really understands – they just click stuff and hope for the best.”
*snorts* I thought I was the only one who did this! I click stuff all the time, then look at the screen and see if anything important happened. ;p
Ana Lutetia on April 23, 2009
^^
*purrs*
Lavea Alter on April 23, 2009
“Yiff: You don’t want to know.”
ACK! You were right. *curses google*
The Extremes of Prad Prathivi « Around the Grid on April 23, 2009
[...] For instance, Prad’s definitely one of the Jokers of Second Life. He’s the one who devised the famous (or infamous, but definitely desired!) Dedicated Second Life Keyboard, after all, and also revealed the contents of M Linden’s E-mail inbox. He’s also compiled a two-part glossary of familiar SL terms for newbies that any budding linguist or language nerd needs to check out. (Part 2 links to Part 1, so I’m linking to that.) [...]
Bailey Longcloth on April 23, 2009
=~.^=
*purrs* to Ana
Vaughan Vendetta on April 23, 2009
“Voice: Because sometimes, it’s just nice to know if that girl really is a girl.”
LOL. Unless they’re using a voice changer…
~V.
blondin linden on April 23, 2009
Good list
blondin linden on April 23, 2009
Side note: sl6b is going to be awesome
Skinkie Winkler on April 24, 2009
Has anyone ever offered you a publishing deal Prad? If not, they really should – this is the sort of stuff my parents buy books of every Christmas
Cuddly Waffle on April 24, 2009
Lol
“And possibly a third one if you’re in WoW too, in which case you have *way* too much time on your hands.”
…… *shifty eyes* >.> <.<
Stacia Villota on April 24, 2009
Joins in the purring fest. =^..^=
Guen on April 28, 2009
How about…
Security Orb: Because we all know you enjoy booting hapless n00bs from your land without warning.
Was anxiously waiting for the second half of the Dictionary.
Bluegum Lunasea on April 29, 2009
Z. ZOMG What a great list.
lokum shilova on April 29, 2009
Very amusing ! great list
Oliver Binetti on May 3, 2009
is there a Definition for humus in SL? I found some SLulrm which are capable to grow old into a coffe tea spoon: instead of watching it I got it on a table, she spaced me. We might call it a SLurlmachinima. Sorry, just a Noob in scripting!
Laurie Adamczyk on May 3, 2009
SLove: they pretend to catch it with a blink, and leave some tips. Got to rethink some indication about it, but is there anyone who can tell me if there’s any?
First, is a promise made with both hands up. Maybe SLove is a hypercube of perceptions.