Zeninja
05-11-05, 06:50
Hi,
I've been recently put on ignore by a person on Terra, after having sent her a PM, and I didn't have a clue of why she made this (well I'm new to Terra and I never had any trouble or even any discussion with her).
I asked her later (using an alt she couldn't know), but as a reply I just got some "stop harassing me or else I'll call a GM - muted". The only thing I said in that damn PM, was trying to suggest her it's some kind of weird running down on forums players who kill randomly allies when you're precisely adopting yourself willingly such behaviour ingame (which is a way of playing NC I dislike, but that I have to respect like many others).
So I supposed she did not appreciate me calling her a "ganker" ; though, this is the word I'm always using for calling allied faction killers (or wannabe killers in this case ^^). That's relatively new word for me, since I've never seen or even heard it anywhere before I played Terra. I never intended using this as an insult, but maybe I'm misusing it, like you readers could do without even knowing ?
English not being my mother tongue, I made a search on my dictionnary about the "gank" verb. I haven't found that word. So I tried using Google, and here is what I found :
gank v. to rob, rip off, or con (someone).
Categories: English United States. Associated with or special to the United States or American people, places, or things. United States. Crime & Prisons Drugs Slang
Editorial Note: See also gank, n.
Citations: 1989 Karen Dillon Chicago Tribune (July 19) “Youths get 79 years for beating elderly” p. C10: In their confession to police, the two youths said they would go “make a run” or “gank an o.g.,” which means they would drive around until they spotted an elderly woman, usually at a bank or shopping center or near a school. 1990 Alan Gottleib Denver Post (Colo.) (July 8) “One sibling resists entangling net, sets eyes on college, future” p. 13A: “Base had just ganked a tweaker,” James said—conned a crack addict out of her money. 1991 John M. McGuire St. Louis Post-Dispatch Everyday magazine (Mo.) (July 8) “The New Breed Young St. Louis Cops Look For Seasoning, Respect—And Yogurt” p. 1D: “Don’t gank me,” Kelly says. As a verb, Kelly later explains, “gank” means “to chump you, or play you for a fool.” 1991 Ken Kolker Grand Rapids Press (Mich.) (Nov. 27) “Hickman tells of plan to sell fake cocaine to undercover agent”: Hickman said he and Maurice Pointer planned to “gank”—the street term for rob—the undercover agent, posing as a customer, by selling him fake cocaine for $28,000 on April 8 on the MSU campus in East Lansing. 1994 Ron Stallworth (Congressional Testimony) (Feb. 23) “Influence of Lyrics on Children”: Let him think he’s gettin’ over while I gank him for his riches robbin’, stealln’, killin’ at will— 1994 Mary Carole McCauley Milwaukee Journal (Wisc.) (June 24) “Petition sheds light on events of slaying, but motive is murky” p. B3: One told the others, “Let’s gank him,” which the 17-year- old understood to mean that he wanted to rob Eshman.
So the question is now, is "ganker" an adapted word for people that just don't give a fuck about the F6 faction board ?
That's all folks.
I've been recently put on ignore by a person on Terra, after having sent her a PM, and I didn't have a clue of why she made this (well I'm new to Terra and I never had any trouble or even any discussion with her).
I asked her later (using an alt she couldn't know), but as a reply I just got some "stop harassing me or else I'll call a GM - muted". The only thing I said in that damn PM, was trying to suggest her it's some kind of weird running down on forums players who kill randomly allies when you're precisely adopting yourself willingly such behaviour ingame (which is a way of playing NC I dislike, but that I have to respect like many others).
So I supposed she did not appreciate me calling her a "ganker" ; though, this is the word I'm always using for calling allied faction killers (or wannabe killers in this case ^^). That's relatively new word for me, since I've never seen or even heard it anywhere before I played Terra. I never intended using this as an insult, but maybe I'm misusing it, like you readers could do without even knowing ?
English not being my mother tongue, I made a search on my dictionnary about the "gank" verb. I haven't found that word. So I tried using Google, and here is what I found :
gank v. to rob, rip off, or con (someone).
Categories: English United States. Associated with or special to the United States or American people, places, or things. United States. Crime & Prisons Drugs Slang
Editorial Note: See also gank, n.
Citations: 1989 Karen Dillon Chicago Tribune (July 19) “Youths get 79 years for beating elderly” p. C10: In their confession to police, the two youths said they would go “make a run” or “gank an o.g.,” which means they would drive around until they spotted an elderly woman, usually at a bank or shopping center or near a school. 1990 Alan Gottleib Denver Post (Colo.) (July 8) “One sibling resists entangling net, sets eyes on college, future” p. 13A: “Base had just ganked a tweaker,” James said—conned a crack addict out of her money. 1991 John M. McGuire St. Louis Post-Dispatch Everyday magazine (Mo.) (July 8) “The New Breed Young St. Louis Cops Look For Seasoning, Respect—And Yogurt” p. 1D: “Don’t gank me,” Kelly says. As a verb, Kelly later explains, “gank” means “to chump you, or play you for a fool.” 1991 Ken Kolker Grand Rapids Press (Mich.) (Nov. 27) “Hickman tells of plan to sell fake cocaine to undercover agent”: Hickman said he and Maurice Pointer planned to “gank”—the street term for rob—the undercover agent, posing as a customer, by selling him fake cocaine for $28,000 on April 8 on the MSU campus in East Lansing. 1994 Ron Stallworth (Congressional Testimony) (Feb. 23) “Influence of Lyrics on Children”: Let him think he’s gettin’ over while I gank him for his riches robbin’, stealln’, killin’ at will— 1994 Mary Carole McCauley Milwaukee Journal (Wisc.) (June 24) “Petition sheds light on events of slaying, but motive is murky” p. B3: One told the others, “Let’s gank him,” which the 17-year- old understood to mean that he wanted to rob Eshman.
So the question is now, is "ganker" an adapted word for people that just don't give a fuck about the F6 faction board ?
That's all folks.