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first life [furst lahyf]
-noun
1. the physical world; meatspace; characterized by in-person communication, shared laughter, and body language
21st century usage: facebook is okay but I prefer first life
origin: 2007 or earlier. term commonly employed by katie dover-taylor, emily hamstra, and friends following an unfortunate first assignment for SI500 in the Fall of 2007 at the University of Michigan School of Information. see http://www.getafirstlife.com/.
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flizz [flizz]
-noun
longstanding, unacknowledged flirting
origin: Fall, 2007.
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metalinguistic; metalinguistic flirting [mee-tuh-ling-gwis-tik flur-ting]
-noun -adjective
1. interpersonal communication with multiple planes of interpretation, meaningful in different ways to different people
2. activity by one organism that changes or has the potential to change the behavior of other organisms by making them think about their own thoughts or behaviors
3. type of interactions expected on Metadater
4. dancing with language
21st century usage: I’m just super metalinguistic this morning; my boyfriend and I have miscommunicated because I am metalinguistic
origin: 2009. first used to describe the flirting style of katie dover-taylor. developed from the following description: “sort of a parodic, [queer] fred durst-ish kind of way [...] which is actually precisely the kind of swagger you put on [...] when you’ve got your game face on, that is.” the definition has expanded to encompass a style of communication in general.
see also: METADATER: a long explanation for a short joke, Nerds in possible like, METADATER: the Startup Plan OR My Master’s degree in silly things, Recession good news, and Web Site Story.
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