BrunoPuntzJones
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and HOW is this relevant to people intentionally misspelling "ever" to make their point and/or look like an idiot?
Zenmervolt
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Things like "EVAR" and "teh suck" and "is suck" are simply the way that those of us who have been here for a while can tell the new people apart.
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FeathersMcGraw
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radioouman
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Anubis
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Sigh...ok guys, straight from the source.
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slang ( P ) Pronunciation Key (slng)
n.
A kind of language occurring chiefly in casual and playful speech, made up typically of short-lived coinages and figures of speech that are deliberately used in place of standard terms for added raciness, humor, irreverence, or other effect.
Language peculiar to a group; argot or jargon: thieves' slang.
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So in this case, "ever" being replaced with "evar" (pronounced e-VAR), is indeed a slang term replacing a normal term. Did you know that o'clock (as in "the time is 3 o'clock") is a slang term as well? It should be said "the time is 3 of the clock."
So those of you that state you don't use slang don't even realize that you were taught slang since grade school.
So this may bother you Evan, seeing EVAR and thinking it's you but what about me? My first name is Ariel and it doesn't bother me whenever I see/hear "aerial" and I do A LOT in my job.
So does using slang denote someone's intelligence? No. Does having some freedom to enphasize what you are stating denote a n00b? No. Does using the term n00b mean that you are one? No. By someone using the word n00b I don't think any less of them, why would you assume so for the term evar?
Just food for thought guys.
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slang ( P ) Pronunciation Key (slng)
n.
A kind of language occurring chiefly in casual and playful speech, made up typically of short-lived coinages and figures of speech that are deliberately used in place of standard terms for added raciness, humor, irreverence, or other effect.
Language peculiar to a group; argot or jargon: thieves' slang.
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So in this case, "ever" being replaced with "evar" (pronounced e-VAR), is indeed a slang term replacing a normal term. Did you know that o'clock (as in "the time is 3 o'clock") is a slang term as well? It should be said "the time is 3 of the clock."
So those of you that state you don't use slang don't even realize that you were taught slang since grade school.
So this may bother you Evan, seeing EVAR and thinking it's you but what about me? My first name is Ariel and it doesn't bother me whenever I see/hear "aerial" and I do A LOT in my job.
So does using slang denote someone's intelligence? No. Does having some freedom to enphasize what you are stating denote a n00b? No. Does using the term n00b mean that you are one? No. By someone using the word n00b I don't think any less of them, why would you assume so for the term evar?
Just food for thought guys.
- May 21, 2001
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The point of the thread is not that it is slang, but that many people think they are spelling it correctly when they use 'evar' instead of 'ever'. Sure some people here claimed it was in reference to Simpsons (which is spoken and not written so how do they know how it is spelled?) but most don't. I just tought it was funny that whenever people misspell a word, they often also don't use proper capital letters.
OOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooh, well when you put it that way it sounds all different. It sounded like you were ranting about the term itself, not the way you stated it. Ok, now it makes sense! And here I went through all the trouble of posting that
And here I went through all the trouble of posting that 
But they're easier to say than "person who modifies settings in a computer's basic input output system to cause the processor and/or other components to run at a higher frequency than that at which they have been rated to run" and "device which is firmly clamped so as to come into contact with the metallic surface of the core of the processor in order to increase the efficiencey of heat dissipation from said processor.".
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