[FRIAM] Pondering the slang Adulting

[Gillian Densmore]

Nick re: trolling. Quit possibly. The slang form of troll, reffering to
someone stomping about just to get attention goes back to at least the erra
of modems and BullitenBoards.    Personally I started seeing and getting a
gist of the slang on MUD's. Text based DnD games that became the moderm MMO
(Ever quest, star trek online and World Of Warcraft).
In WoW (world of warcraft) someone that says stuff to others to being sassy
is bettER type of troll. That form has fallen out of favor to just the
negative form. To meen seomeones saying stuff to rile up others. As glen
sugested keeping polotical propiganda going (for example), taking jabs at
peoples typos. On english heaving servers it's (sadly) very common for some
trolls to take stabs at and make slights about peoples countries. Or go off
about fox news.

Where as Adulting is kind of different because takes a toung in cheek
(usually) look at someone. For example someone could say in a conversation.
Argh I have to be an adult for a few moments to pick up my kids.
They can also use the slang take from a real example: Just to let you guys
know I may need to do some adulting  and grab my dog if my husband is late
from work today.

On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 8:40 PM Nick Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> Glen,
>
> I have always wondered about "trolling".  Is it the monster under the
> bridge or the fisherman.  Or both?
>
> N
>
> Nicholas S. Thompson
> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
> Clark University
> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
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> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2018 4:52 PM
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> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Pondering the slang Adulting
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> It sounds to me like yet another effect of the information age, the
> decoupling of one's essential self from their environment/behavior.  E.g.
> in gaming, a "tryhard" is someone who takes the game too seriously.  It's
> just a game.  It's OK if you lose.  Or another e.g. trolling.  When
> interacting with someone online who seems too sensitive or takes themselves
> too seriously, a decoupled person might *pretend* to be a Nazi or somesuch
> just to fsck with the person.
>
> So too with adulting, where you do adult things but retain your *essence*,
> which is not so adult as to take adulting seriously ... to commit to it as
> a part of your identity.  It reminds me of "imposter syndrome" and "fake it
> till you make it", both common phrases when I was 30 or so.
>
> On 11/13/18 3:26 PM, Gillian Densmore wrote:
> > I got to talking with dad today and I hadn't though about how the
> > slang adulting might have come about. My guess was in the sense of
> 'going off to be a' if you have a playful personality Thoughts?
>
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