Forum lingo, slang, and the like

[Boom762]

Ive not ever been in forums in the past and Ive seen a few terms thag I can guess at what they mean but really dont have a firm definition. These are the three that come to mind but if you are aware kf others, please post them and explain.

G.A.S. ?
Bump ?
Mark ?

 

[adamaarts]

Gear Acquisition Syndrome - or the burning desire from inside your soul that you need to buy something

Bump - basically bumping your thread to the top of the list. Also TTT, to the top.

Mark? Never heard that one

 

[El Spearo]

I'm sure there's a sticky somewhere with all of them. GAS =gear acquisition syndrome

 

[bongomania]

GAS = Gear Acquisition Syndrome, lusting after new gear.
Bump = a post whose purpose is to move the thread to the top of the chronological heap for a moment, call new attention to it.
Mark you were probably seeing in the context of Markbass, which is a brand of amps and pedals.

 

[phangtonpower]

Someone had the same question sometime this week. If you can find the thread, there was a wiki talk bass with a glossary of terms.

 

[Boom762]

I saw the tone description wiki but not one for forum terms. Gas is interesting.

 

[GKon]

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f61/sticky-all-various-acronyms-used-tb-1002472/

 

[nukes_da_bass]

A mark is a confidence man's slang for "sucker". Where on TB did you come across that? There are no con men here.

 

[machine gewehr]

Mark might simply be a name. Mark Wilson comes to mind first.

 

[MazingerZ]

Tl;Dr - too long didn't read
AFAIK - as far as I know
IMHO - in my honest opinion

Will try to post others once I recall them

 

[bachlover]

In either this (Off Topic) or Miscellaneous someone asked what NBD means. One of the responders supplied the link to the glossary of all the abbreviations. You can type NBD? in the searchbars of those topics or ferret it out yourself (shouldn't be hard - think it's still on the 1st page of either of those threads).

 

[wild4oldcars]

YMMV- your mileage may vary
this one took me the longest to find out

 

[T-Bird]

Hi.

IMHO - in my honest opinion

There used to be a time not long ago when it did mean In My Humble Opinion.

Honest in that context makes absolutely no sense.
To me anyway.
But I'm old.
And non-native speaker.
Even had a thread about it once...

Regards
Sam

 

[Tituscrow]

Hi.







There used to be a time not long ago when it did mean In My Humble Opinion.



Honest in that context makes absolutely no sense.

To me anyway.

But I'm old.

And non-native speaker.

Even had a thread about it once...



Regards

Sam

Yep, humble.

 

[experimental bassist]

IMO In my opinion

IMHO In my honest opinion/In my humble opinion

IIRC If I recall correctly

YMMV Your mileage may vary

GAS Guitar/Gear Acquisition Syndrome

j/k Just kidding

pup Pickup

Rounds Round wound strings

Flats Flat wound strings

TI Flats or TIJFs Thomastik Infeld Jazz Flats (brand name of a popular flat wound string)

Tort Tortoise shell pickguard

NBD New Bass Day

NAD New Amp Day

Bump/TTT Just bumping a thread to the top

Carrots "I don't have an opinion" or "whatever"





Just a few off the top of my head.

 

[GlennW]

IME, in my experience

 

[DiabolusInMusic]

Don't forget about *** - why the face

EDIT: That is actually censored? Well you all get the joke.

 

[machine gewehr]

tl;dr : too long, didn't read

You should post your opinion after this,despite the fact that you don't know the topic

 

[Rush-2112]

This is also the only forum where I learned and use "+1"

Also, I don't think I'll ever know what bc=tQ means

 

[DerHoggz]

This is also the only forum where I learned and use "+1"

Also, I don't think I'll ever know what bc=tQ means

The Quintar (sic?) is a TB legend, and the theory is he manifested through another user bc (can't remember full name).