[Closed] What's This 'Moar' Thing?

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/moar

[url= http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/moar ]Have a look here[/url]

Edit: beaten to it!

For the love of god. 🙄

It's a combination of more and roar, meant to indicate you like something a lot.
You could argue that since the domination of the the internet in modern communication, langauage has changed moar in the last 10/20 years than in the last 100 years. Language is always in flux and that's part of it's inherent qualities, people tend to view this as bad but change is necessary otherwise we'd all be speaking like Shakespeare, forsooth!

Oh, I always thought it was how Scottish folks said it...

Or... Some semblance of standardisation is necessary otherwise no one will understand each other?

@jekyll if it's a combination of 'more' and 'roar', you appear to have misused it in your example 😀

change is necessary otherwise we'd all be speaking like Shakespeare, forsooth!

Or... Some semblance of standardisation is necessary otherwise no one will understand each other?

People can understand each other - but they might choose to understand [i]each other [/i] whilst not to be [i]understood by everyone else[/i]. You can choose your words to include and exclude people from whats being said. For a while at least, until those words become common parlance and you have to find new words.

L33t speak and the like exist so that a conversation between two people can circumvent control of others - understanding each other but circumvent your parents / swear filters / spam filters / the DMCA etc. Its the modern day equivalent of [url= https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polari ]Polari.[/url]

Very interesting slowoldman, your point is that Shakespeare did indeed invent lots of words that are still used today, including 'pedant' 😉 lol
http://www.shakespeare-online.com/biography/wordsinvented.html

Analogies could be drawn between the place of theatre in Elizabethan society Vs the internet in modern life. There's a phd dissertation in there somewhere.

Standardisation or at least common understanding or convention is required for effective communication, there's no point in using a word or term or phrase if your audience won't understand it.

An example would be when introducing a term for which you wish to use an abbreviation then the first time that you use the full term you put the abbreviation in parentheses just after. As an example: Bike Shaped Object (BSO), now you can use BSO knowing that the reader has been told what it stands for. Eventually within (and possibly outside) a community the abbreviation becomes widely understood so doesn't need introducing, RAM for example when talking about computers.

Another example of language being used as a secret code is Cockney Rhyming Slang - originally used by ne'er do wells to talk without the cops knowing what they were saying.

i thought it was only related to octopron

This thread is well funny. If your not getting it by now you should perhaps re-read some of the posts up their ^^. 😆

I'm all for moving the language on. Thanks for the education! 😀

It's like more but for use by zany attention-seekers, "moar aero!" for example...

"whitestone - Member

.....An example would be when introducing a term for which you wish to use an abbreviation then the first time that you use the full term you put the abbreviation in parentheses just after. As an example: Bike Shaped Object (BSO), now you can use BSO knowing that the reader has been told what it stands for."

think that is straight from The Economist style guide - I love those explanations:

£ Sterling (currency unit of a small island near Europe)
McDonalds (a purveyor of standardised food)
Ford (a manufacturer of ground hugging vehicles with internal combustion engines)

etc

etc

It's more more than more!

QQ moar

shifter - Member
It's like more but for use by zany attention-seekers, "moar aero!" for example...

See Ridemonkey for many examples of this - the use of the phrase "Moar *" in a single line post on there just marks you out as a Grade A t*r.