Do you use furry "lingo"?

[Red]

I was curious to see how many of the forum's users use lingo, like "confurt", "confuzzle", or refer to their hands as "paws"

[tokar]

I was curious to see how many of the forum's users use lingo, like "confurt", "confuzzle", or refer to their hands as "paws"

what about something like ... looking for furple to attend this?

[Tef]

Other than "facepaws", "raises paw", I hardly use much in terms of furry lingo intensively.

[Temrin]

Personally. i absolutely dislike it when people put furry/animal related words into everything.
"Furiends" etc. Imo, it makes people sound extremely silly (for lack of a stronger word) and actually can make people really uncomfortable around the person saying it when you are in a public setting.
Its not 'cute' either. o.O

I might "Facepaw" once in a while. But i will only use strange furry lingo when I'm poking fun at it really (or being sarcastic.) It literally makes me cringe when people use "furry lingo".

[weremagnus]

Personally. i absolutely dislike it when people put furry/animal related words into everything.
"Furiends" etc. Imo, it makes people sound extremely silly (for lack of a stronger word) and actually can make people really uncomfortable around the person saying it when you are in a public setting.
Its not 'cute' either. o.O

I might "Facepaw" once in a while. But i will only use strange furry lingo when I'm poking fun at it really (or being sarcastic.) It literally makes me cringe when people use "furry lingo".

This ^^^^

[IrishLion]

Personally. i absolutely dislike it when people put furry/animal related words into everything.
"Furiends" etc. Imo, it makes people sound extremely silly (for lack of a stronger word) and actually can make people really uncomfortable around the person saying it when you are in a public setting.
Its not 'cute' either. o.O

I might "Facepaw" once in a while. But i will only use strange furry lingo when I'm poking fun at it really (or being sarcastic.) It literally makes me cringe when people use "furry lingo".

^^  This this.. also, avatar related.

[kohl]

Furry lingo is to much for my fuzzy ears

*two dew claws down*

Then again *perks ears* it can be interesting.

[mArZiPaN!]

I always feel better when people are themselves and don't hide behind convention or try to become cookie cutter robots...to a point.

The biggest boundary and awkwardness for me is know your audience or environment. There are places when using these words, wearing unique clothing, jewellery or showing off tattoos, speaking about controversial or off-colour topics are perfectly ok even good to get out there and let others see and the there are places and times when it's best to lay low or just keep calm and quiet.

Just remember for everytime you use a term or wear a tail or profess a love of something or hate it for that matter that someone in earshot might be cringing or yay-ing(is that a word).

There is no right answer so that's where the conflict can arise.

I know someone who hates the use of the word yiff but will throw gaming terms and street language out like there's no tomorrow. Guess which one bothers me more but I hesistate to bring it up to them because it's a two way street with more than one lane.

I could go on and on about this, interesting topic though.

[kohl]

It becomes a habit at times.

I dropped the p word when I was complaining about how cold my hands were at work. Lucky for me I was with one of the down to earth guys at work. He told me it was messed up and get my act together ^.^

[tokar]

It becomes a habit at times.

I dropped the p word when I was complaining about how cold my hands were at work. Lucky for me I was with one of the down to earth guys at work. He told me it was messed up and get my act together ^.^

wow.  it must have really been a bad word if you can't repeat it here.

[IrishLion]

wow.  it must have really been a bad word if you can't repeat it here.

He'll tell you what it is in a bit, but he needs to paws for dramatic effect first.....

[J.R.Bear]

He'll tell you what it is in a bit, but he needs to paws for dramatic effect first.....

I see what you did there. ^_~

[Zythren]

Well never irl, but I refer to my hands as paws sometimes online. That's about as far is it goes =\

[J.R.Bear]

Furends, confuzzled, confurt. These are not words. These are at best bastardizations of words used to impose "furry-ness". At worse they make you seem infantile, children talk like this. I personally cant stand baby talk like this. There is nothing cute or sexy about it.

[Tef]

True, true. I don't see the point of furnishing vocabulary and discourse beyond, well, the level of which many furs seem to be in consensus for.