So far it seems like most if not all of the terms used by gamers such as "Griefing", "Scrub", and even "Noob" have become utterly meaningless by virtue of having no official definition. You ask one person what those mean they tell you one thing, you ask another they tell you another. I think it's about time we standardize our slang.
Do we need a dictionary?
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No, I think the exact opposite of this, actually. These are slang terms that do not need to be in a damn dictionary. They're literally NEVER used in a serious conversation. They apply only to the slang of some sort of contention regarding video games. The world does not really benefit from this. What it needs is smarter people.AtheistGuy said:
They're all colloquialisms. The problem is that they have fluid definitions based on the culture. We could formalize them but slang like this comes and goes so fast it would just be chasing a moving target.
Language doesn't really work like that, words tend to drop in and out of existence very quickly, but nothing goes as quickly as slang - it has a shelf-life of maybe a few decades. By the time we'd written it all down most of the words would have changed. Consider the sort of words we were using ten years ago and now look at the words we're using now. They're very different.
You can figure out what words mean by the context that they are typically used in. For example, I can tell that Troll means "Someone I disagree with or who presents an opposing viewpoint"
